I love that song. The censors were not going to allow it in the Marx Bros movie because of the saucy lyrics. Then Groucho added the lines, “She once swept an admiral clear off his feet,The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat,And now the old boy’s in command of the fleet,For he went and married Lydia-a-a-a…”Turning Lydia into an honest woman.
I love that song. The censors were not going to allow it in the Marx Bros movie because of the saucy lyrics. Then Groucho added the lines, “She once swept an admiral clear off his feet,The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat,And now the old boy’s in command of the fleet,For he went and married Lydia-a-a-a…”Turning Lydia into an honest woman.