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 j**el 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 thataway 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