ladies ladies the eternal mystery through my history theyve acted rather sisterly or they would tend to want to mother mister b they were never after me and i never dastardly so i never got respect from the hoes too few yesses and too many nos i suppose if ones a gentleman as part of one s job one cant make a lady have a go on ones robert mitchum was a lad and a bit of a cad but my attempts at that sort of thing were really rather bad im glad though i am to be be a gentleman holding open doors and helping your gran across the road but never toadying it fills me with foreboding like posing in draylon and pensioner bling so im not a chap to take liberties but when once they would have scorned little b now they curtsey for me curtsey for me when once upon a time they would have rather ignored me back in the day they were all nitpickers now theyre up and down like a strippers knickers pop that front leg out and drop into a little bow that s how the ladies greet me now from saltburn to guildford they bend their knees in the most lady like way in southend on sea they terrorise me but their obediency is a lovely display now they curtsey for me curtsey for me when once upon a time they might have rather ignored me i like bit of hogging when im in town dear bow your pretty noggin and while youre down there pop the front leg out and then drop into a little bow thats how the ladies greet me now  in henley they bend knees in forest gate they prostrate in guildford they make me feel good in puckpool they no in ken sing ton bend ing down thats a sight to see truly i say on hampstead heath skirts can be brief but then whats underneath can make a chap run away when they curtsey for me curtsey for me when once upon a time they would have rather ignored me back in the day they were all nitpickers now theyre up and down like a strippers knickers pop the front leg out and drop into a little bow that is how the ladies greet me now 