NANCY: Small pleasures, small pleasures,

Who would deny us these?

Gin toddies -- large measures --

No skimping if you please!

I rough it.  I love it.

Life is a game of chance.

I'll never tire of it --

Leading this merry dance.

If you don't mind having to go without things,

It's a fine life!



ALL :  It's a Fine life!



NANCY :   And though it ain't all jolly old pleasure outings,

It's a fine life!



ALL:  It's a Fine life!



NANCY: When you've got someone to love,

You forget your cares and strife.

Let the prudes look down on us.

Let the wide world frown on us.

It's a fine, fine life!



ALL: It's a fine, fine life



BET:Who cares if staight laces

Sneer at us in the street

Fine airs and fine graces,



NANCY:Don't have to sin to eat



BOTH: We wonder through London



NANCY:Who knows what we may find



BOTH:There's pockets left undone

On many a behind



NANCY:If you don't mind takin' it like it turns out,

It's a fine life!



ALL:It's a fine life!



NANCY:And keep the candle burn until it's burned out

It's a fine life!



ALL:It's a fine life!



NANCY:Though you sometimes do come by

The occasional black eye

You can always cover one

'Til he blacks the other one

But you don't dare cry!



BET: No flounces, no feathers,

No frills and furbelows.

All winds and all weathers

Ain't good for fancy clothes.



NANCY:   These trappings,



BET:   These tatters,



BET and NANCY:  These we can just afford.



NANCY:   What future?



BET:   What matters:



BET and NANCY: We've got our bed and board.



NANCY:   If you don't mind having to deal with Fagin,

It's a fine life!



ALL: It's a Fine life!



NANCY: And though diseased rats threaten to bring the plague in,

It's a fine life!



ALL: It's fine life!



NANCY:   But the grass is green and dense

On the right side of the fence.

So we take good care of it

That we get our share of it



ALL: And we don't mean pence!



BET and NANCY: If you don't mind having to like or lump it,

It's a fine life!



ALL: It's a  Fine life!



NANCY: Though there's no tea-sippin' and eatin' crumpet,

It's a fine life!



ALL: It's a Fine life!



NANCY: Not for me, the happy home:

Happy husband, happy wife.

Though it sometimes touches me,

For the likes of such as me,

Mine's a fine.



ALL: Fine life!