FANCY DRESS

Have you ever turned up at dance night?
It’s supposed to be fancy dress
You go in carpet slippers
Looking a positive mess

You have made a concerted effort
Intend to be silliest there
Spent over three hours this morning
Deciding just what to wear

It’s supposed to resemble a shipwreck
Sometime between seven and four
Perhaps you will dress as the captain
Or someone from on the dance floor

You are a little late in arriving
So everyone else is inside
You make such a fabulous entrance
Dressed as one from the S.S.Kilbride

But oh! What a shock as you enter
To find everyone dressed to the nines
The gentlemen all in evening suits
The ladies in latest designs

If ever you wanted the floorboards
To open, it ought to be now
I think we should make our excuses
Get out of the building somehow

“The cabaret’s arrived” someone shouted
For their outfits lets have three big cheers
I think they are brave to dress silly
We haven’t laughed so for years.