Scandal - Duke Special

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 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