Charlie

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...

The doctor's son was he

Didn't know what to do

When he finished school

So they packed him off

To sea

Charlie Charlie Charlie

A modern tragedy

The navy rum and the

Tropical sun

Has sent him dolally

So get back on the Beagle

Charles and sail far away

The things you said today

Is surely blasphemy!

Men of cloth and science agree:

That's quite enough! Begone Charlie!

How dare you go around

Telling me

My grandfather's an ape!

Charlie, no you can't make a

Monkey out of me

This isn't the planet of the apes

It's the nineteeth century!

Charlie Charlie Charlie

Well now you stand accused

Of calling Victoria's dad a chimp

And she is not amused!

So get back on the Beagle

Charles and sail far away

The things you said today

Is surely blasphemy!

Men of cloth and science agree:

That's quite enough! Begone Charlie!

How dare you go around

Telling me

My grandfather's an ape!

Charlie Charlie Darwin Darwin Darwin

Charlie Charlie Darwin now what the 'ell have ya done?

The Origin of the Species the species the species

The Origin of the Species and the descent of man!

It contradicts the Bible, the Bible, the Bible

It contradicts the Bible one of you is wrong!

So get back on the Beagle

Charles and sail far away

The things you said today

Is surely blasphemy!

Men of cloth and science agree:

That's quite enough! Begone Charlie!

How dare you go around

Telling me

My grandfather's an ape!

[Verse 4] (spoken)

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...

What happened to you boy?

We thought you'd join the clergy

Not make the Lord annoyed!

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie...

At the age of fifty one

Your family's a laughing stock

Look at what you've done!

So get back on the Beagle

Charles and sail far away

The things you said today

Is surely blasphemy!

Men of cloth and science agree:

That's quite enough! Begone Charlie!

How dare you go around

Telling me

My grandfather's an ape!

Wonderful! Words fail me sir, words quite fail me!

Have I ever, in my thirty years in the halls, seen such a dazzling display of lustrous (?)

So many (?) of supernatural skill; the answer must be never sir, never