[Lyric] Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (Ten Percent Revue Cast)

When Charlie was a baby
He sucked his thumb, maybe
His mother told him
"Charls! Shame, shame!
You musn't suck your thumb
It simply isn't done
It's the love that dare not speak its name"

Soon he was a toddler
A funny little waddler
And playing with his pee-pee
Was a game
His father slapped his hand
So that he would understand
About the love that dare not speak its name

Next he went to school
Charlie was no fool
The other kids were doing just the same
The teacher's really fought thеm
Every time they caught thеm
In the love that dare not speak its name
When Charlie reached pubescence
He'd really learnt his lessons
And yet what part of his body he couldn't tame
It stood up in the morning
And sometimes without warning

Soon he was in college
Getting all that knowledge
Yet he thought that somehow, he was lame
He longed to be with Donald
And Bill and Pete and Ronald
In the love that dare not speak its name

One day on the trolley
He met a guy named Olly
A flicker quickly turned into a flame
First they did some dating
And then they called it made-ing
And nothing ever has been the same

Charlie soon discovered
His father and mother had led him wrong
About love's sweet game
No longer did he hide
Oh no, he felt a growing pride
In the-
What's that?
The-

One time, the love
That dare speak its name