The Baccara Question

Eh? Eh?

I seem to remember Tony Hawkes talking about this on tv. I think it might have been on the short-lived BBC comedy panel show "Brain Drain" with Clive Anderson. I think somebode must have asked a question about the song with the worst lyrics ever and Hawkes sung a bit of it. There is (at least, according to him) a line about "although I'm rather shady" to rhyme with "lady", although I can't verify this as I only caught the very end of TOTP2 which had some godawful ballad which seemed to go on for ever (at least, it survived several channel-hops; I'm a demon with that remote, me).

This baccara song does seem to have mythic status tho....I used to be a part-time member of a quiz team called "Sorry I'm a Lady" back in '94.

"... i would rather be (rather be) just a little shady." class

i think English wasn't their first language may explain something

tony hawkes sneers at them <=> i wuv em

even without this unimpeachable hoik to their cred they were utterly grate

(those lyrics are worse than [insert whatever you like], how, exactly?)

Intro to "Yes Sir..." is great

"Hey Mister!/Your eyes are full of hesitation/You makes me wonder/Just what you're looking for"

"I already told you in the first verse, and in the chor-oos"

"Sorry I'm A Lady" is also played during the "This Is Our War" video on The Day Today, over a few seconds of the only female soldiers taking part in said conflict (essentially modelled on the Gulf War rolling news service, as I remember it).