Duke Special Scandal lyrics

Hector Mann plays a businessman who checks in an old hotel
When he picks up the phone to call his girl at home, he gets the opera singer down the hall

It's not a scandal, just a misunderstanding
You're not who I thought you were at all

Hector Mann goes to check his appearance, he thinks there's something funny with the mirror
But really it's a jewel thief wearing the same suit and staring back from outside a window
And two doors down he can hear the opera singer cry out "Someone call the manager!

There's been a break-in, my necklace has been stolen!
I need it for tonight's performance!
He was a man in a white suit and moustache
You catch him in the act then he's a dead man."

Now it's a scandal, just a misunderstanding
I'm afraid that you've got it all wrong

And pretty soon it's hard to say just what is what, who is who
Everybody running round from room to room, up and down
Is this just a case of the right time in the wrong place
I'm a man with good intentions, how did you get the wrong impression?


Usually he's keen to keep his suit clean, now he's in a hurry to get it dirty,
From the kitchen to the chimney, the fireplace to the furnace
Until he's no longer who he once was

It's not a scandal, just a misunderstanding
This kind of thing just happens to me

Word spreads from the deskclerk to the bellhop to the valet
To the policeman down the alleyway
Hector Mann is standing in a black suit in the open
He's pointing saying I think that he went that a-way.

Hector Mann plays a businessman who checks out of an old hotel
He's done with the double takes, pratfalls and acrobatics
You can tell he's done with them for good

It's not a scandal, just a misunderstanding
It's not a scandal, just a misunderstanding
And in the last frame it closes on twist of his moustache
And you know he's had enough.