So let's take tea, can't live without it All the things for which we pay the cost But all the tea in China Can't change the things we lost So let's take tea and talk about it All those things we dreamed to be And let's talk about the movies And Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Romance at the matinée With Dirk Bogarde and me So let's take tea and laugh about it And cry a little on the way And talk just like the grown-ups do Like it was back in the day And let's take tea, in fact let's shout it No sugar please for me About that night at the Rialto With Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me That night at the Rialto, with Dirk Bogarde and me So let's take tea and talk about it But steady on the cakes For sorrows past, forgiven at last A little tea is all it takes And let's take tea and laugh about it All the things we dreamed to be Let's talk about The Blue Lamp with Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Let's talk about The Blue Lamp with Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me It's all just tea and fantasy With Dirk Bogarde and me Dirk Bogarde and me