MAXIMUM PLUS
>From the film "It's All Happening" (1963)
(Music: Norman Newell / Lyrics: Philip Green)


Tommy Steele & Marion Ryan (Film Soundtrack) - 1963





MARION: Take Stravinsky, take Brahms
TOMMY:  Take the Venus de Milo with a pair of arms
MARION: Take Picasso, Matisse or a Dresden piece
You have maximum
BOTH: And your maximum plus

MARION: Take the ballet, en point
TOMMY:  Take a hop at the Palais or a jukebox joint
Take a ton-up for fun on the old M1
BOTH: You have maximum and your maximum plus

TOMMY:  Take a bingo card that's full to the brim
MARION: Take creme de la creme from the milk
TOMMY:  Take the top o' the bill, a millionaire's will
MARION: Take, sir
TOMMY:  Oh, my Lord, my ladyfriend's in court

MARION: Take an evening at the play
TOMMY:  Take a knees-up in a boozer down Lambeth way
MARION: It's a hundred percent
BOTH: Plus bonus, I'll take the onus and say thus
You're maximum, you're maximum plus

TOMMY:  Take Sinatra
MARION: Please
TOMMY:  Take Bing, ba-ba-ba-bom
MARION: Take the big beat of Basie when he starts to swing
Tale Ella, or Pearl, or that Callas girl
TOMMY:  You have maximum, oh, I can't go on
MARION: And your maximum plus

MARION: Take diamonds, take pearls
TOMMY:  Take the cute little wiggle of the Tiller Girls
MARION: Take sable or mink
TOMMY:  Take too much to drink
BOTH: You have maximum and your maximum plus

TOMMY:  Take the Epsom Downs, a fine Derby day
You have backed one-two-three in the race
MARION: Take a glass of champagne
TOMMY:  Take Petticoat Lane
MARION: Take space
TOMMY:  You're advertising?
MARION: All the time

MARION: Take a Rolls-Royce, sixty-three
TOMMY:  Take a place to park your Mini that's all for free
BOTH: It's a hundred percent plus bonus
I'll take the onus and say thus
You're maximum, you're maximum plus

(SPOKEN:
TOMMY:  Tell me, where did you get all these musicians in this one room?
MARION: I only hire short musicians
TOMMY:  Midgets, I see. Madam, would you, would you dance?
MARION: And why not)

TOMMY:  Take waltzing to Strauss, a society ball at a country house
MARION: I'll take a lady to dine where it's candlelit wine
BOTH: You have maximum, maximum, maximum plus

TOMMY:  Take Ascot, Royal Enclosure
Tip your topper to the Dukes and Earls what knows ya
MARION: Take the Chelsea Flower Show
TOMMY:  Or a ride in Rotten Row
BOTH: You have maximum, you have maximum

MARION: Take the Rue de la Pays on an evening in May
TOMMY:  Take the way that the Frenchmen make love
MARION: Take a trip to the stars
TOMMY:  A rocket to Mars, take orf
MARION: Take off what?
TOMMY:  Oh, I'm terribly sorry

BOTH: Take a Mister and Miss
Take a maid who gives you friendship just like this
It's a hundred percent plus bonus
I'll take the onus and say-ay thus
You're maximum, you're maximum plus
Ah, the optimum of the optimum
And the object of all the fuss
Is you and you are maximum plus, plus, plus, plus-de-plus!






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2014)