Karaoké Born to Lead Operation Mincemeat (musical) (Natasha Hodgson)

So you dreamt of being a pilot but you never got to fly so you dreamt of sailing

The seven seas but never got to try well, let navy lads get soaking

We'll all stay nice and dry we shout to all the soldiers, jump

And hear them shout how high for we were made to give the orders

While lesser men take heed for some were born to follow but we were born to lead

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to MI5

You're sure to save the nation nanny told me in my cot

For your father gave you courage also ponies, and that yacht

My centuries of breeding

I know they'll fail me not

I know they'll fail me not for fortune favours bravery and a fortune's what I've got

Oh yes, some boys go to battle but we're a different breed for some were born to follow but we were born to lead

We are the masters the clever men who hold the reigns for who needs guns

When you've got brains see forever after war is done and fades to dust

The world will turn and say to us that we were born to lead

When I was a young explorer

Yes what

I discovered a new breed of trout

It leapt into my kayak and just briefly knocked me out sorry what

The feeling was quite magical when it slapped me on the mouth

It made the local papers rare fish attacks boy scout

It's still my proudest moment of that I have no doubt

For some were born to follow but I was born to find trout

Right, new to MI5 are you oh right

Uh, no, I've worked here for six years

Yes, you're drinking out of my mug oh right oh right

It's got a picture of my face on it

Charles Cholmondeley, Scientist

Ewan Montagu Naval Intelligence of course you do

I know well we know who to call if there's a fish mishap

Ladies better keep your eyes on this chap

Come on men we've Hitlers to dispatch

Quite right lads but the problem is that

All of mainland Europe is under Adolf's thumb

So we're staging our invasion and the countdown has begun

Our sights are set on Sicily that stronghold of the Hun but the island's packed with a hundred thousand

German men with guns and if we cannot storm the beaches it's sure to spell defeat

If the muscle-men can't do it call the masters of deceit

Morning, gentlemen watch out boys

Uh, Colonel Bevan sir the big boss is here welcome to military deception

Now as you all know the next allied invasion target is Sicily and the key to invading Sicily is not invading Sicily

Uh uh, sorry what or at least that's what the enemy is going to think we're going to convince

The Germans that we're headed for somewhere else instead

Sardinia, to be exact exactly

Oh a misdirection

What, so we're going to win this war with a magic trick how else do we make a hundred

Thousand German troops disappear

Sicily could turn the tide of the war but we can't just rock up and knock up on the door

For each man we've got they've got ten more we'll be slaughtered before we even reach the shore

We need a way to reduce the danger tip the odds in our favour go to great lengths to drain the

Strength of the

Sicilian defence by misdirecting their dear dictator

Gotta make Hitler believe Sicily isn't where we're gonna be gotta proceed with some dishonesty

Gotta deceive 'cos what I wanna see is hundreds of thousands of

Germans getting off our property

So I need your brains to figure out how we sell a fake campaign find me a strategy

Use your grey matter to tactically scatter the enemy to the breeze

Then once the island is unattended once the beaches are undefended

We send our boys in then we destroy them that's how Sicily is apprehended

So we've got to lie about where we strike so we can fool the Reich this plan is strictly

Need to know as of now, I'll be hearing your proposals how do we shift the German

Troops from Sicily to Sardinia what this country needs is a genius plan

What this country needs is a genius man for some were born to follow

Or there'll be no tomorrow

But we were born to lead we are the masters we are not heroes

We play our parts we are the clever men who hold the reigns

It's war it's fun it's not a game you'll see

We do our duties

Forever after nothing more and when this war is done and fades to dust

There's no applause or fame for us but we were born to lead

Oh brothers let's get winning my mind shall set us free

Aah hear hear

Ooh three cheers gonna win the war champagne galore

As I flick the Hun the V

I'll definitely get

Aah oh yes a knighthood and a Victoria Cross or three

Look up victory in the dictionary there's a picture there of me we are the finest minds

In England on that we are agreed for some were born to follow but we were born to lead

Some were born to follow some were born to follow