Operation Mincemeat - The Pitch

So! Ladies and
Hello!
What?
No! so ladies and
Charles!
Try again, here we go
Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered today to present our plan.
A genius scheme,
Yes
A brand new team.
Uh-huh
We truly are a well oiled
Exactly

Johnny, picture the scene:

What if a British pilot crashed his plane,
Then washed ashore in the south of Spain
His body forgotten
Rotting in the sun.
So we've lost our man,
Our hideous hero,
The Spanish get a whiff of him,
Oh Dios mio
And then
Oh
Oh
I'm sorry
No
Now you go
"You can do this Charlie"
So they find our man
Yes I get the gist!
And the brief-case we've fixed to his wrist
Jam packed with details of our next attack.

"If you see what we're saying"

But how does this send the Germans to Sardinia
Oh Johnny I know that the suspense is killing ya!
Relax! And we'll tell you all that you need to know
So as you're aware
Spain is rife
With German spies who are bound to umm
Materialise!
Right! Once they know the Spaniards have our boy
So our Allied Sardinian invasion plans
Will fly on the sly into enemy hands
Telling Adolf exactly where to go

"He'll go to Sardinia"
"Was that clear?"

They'll do background checks
We'll get his papers set
We could fake his ID?
You know I'm pleased we met
Jean that's enough
You need me here to pick up the slack
If we could maybe get back on track
We'll rewrite history
Our cadaver will be as traceable and real as you or me
And I trust that a body can be found that will look to an expert freshly drowned

"Now that is an interesting little"
"That's one for you Charles I think"
"Umm well,"
"I see"
"Wait John, you wanted bold ideas, this is your chance
Mincemeat is the plan you've been waiting for to get us into Sicily"

We need to trick the Hun,
Get them off our tails
Mincemeat is the plan that could tip the scales
A Trojan horse
Or rather Trojan corpse
The key to taking Sicily back by force
To win the fight it must be water tight.
Find a body
Yes Johnny now give us the green light
We've told you all you need to know
So just say yes and then we'll go
Fine! You have your orders
What?
You have your orders!
Yes
You have your orders!
Now go.

Written by:
Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Zoe Roberts, Felix Hagan

Publisher:
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing

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