You Can Get Away With Anything - Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Original London Cast Of 'The Woman In White', Michael Crawford

My little friends

You are all in this world that I trust

Now we must find a new home

And I see you’re nonplussed

Now that we’ve won

And we have all the spoils

We must see

That we don’t miss the boat

But you’ll forgive me if I take

A moment

To gloat

You can get away with anything

It all comes down to style

You’ll have a captive audience

As long as you beguile

Yes, you can have your cake and eat it

The love of those whom you betray

But you can’t get away with anything

If you don’t get

Away!

I admit that I’m a criminal

Obsessed with perfect crimes

But even one as good as I

Can bungle it sometimes

Yes, even one who is a genius

Can now and then get in a scrape

But no endeavor’s a catastrophe

As long as you escape

And we are off!

Out the door!

We’ll pack our bags, my little friends

And leave the scene while we are winners

And long before the story ends

As wealthy, unrepentant sinners

We all have got a spot of farce in us

But only some of us are larcenous

And fewer still divine the thrill in us

That comes from being truly villainous

You can get away with anything

To prove it is my sport

I live to push the boundaries

To break the rules, in short

One must be something of a bounder

If one intends to play this game

There’s only one thing that one has to have

One has to have

No shame!

Yes, I can get away with everything

Because I have

No

Shame shame shame shame shame shame shame shame shame

No no no no no no

No no no no no

No no no no no-oooooooooooooo

No

No, oh, oh

No shame!