The Bumbling Spies (Oye! Oye! Oye!)
(Lyrics and Music: A. Stainer)
Oye! Oye! Oye! / Somebody sabotaged it / Oye! Oye! Oye! / They meant to be aboard it / Oh No No! / It is now unmanned / And drifting over London
The brand new / Top-secret airship / Navigation too and heavy armaments / It won’t waft down anytime soon / No one’s in it
The carbon arc lights turn the nighttime brilliant white / Scanning for secret spies in flight / The gendarmes are looking for a fight / The carbon arc lights turn the nighttime so very bright / So unlike those agents, right? / If they get home / I wouldn’t want to be them
Oye! Oye! Oye! / There was some subterfuge / Oye! Oye! Oye! / The airship was a ruse /Oh No No! / The spies found out / Too late to make their escape
Decoy code passed to those secret agents / Sleight of hand and careful misdirection / Our undercover man toyed with them / Not unlike a cat with yarn
Do they now deserve the hangman’s noose? / On the lam and still very loose / So confused / And quite obtuse,
They will be captured very soon / Their shackled hands shadowed by the gibbous moon / Their sentences carried out at high noon / Really, wouldn’t want to be them
...no one’s in it now