Words and Music (musical) song "Let’s Live Dangerously", "a merry little skit on present day habits" (In the order printed in "The Lyrics of Noël Coward", pp. 114–18): The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs. Words and Music (musical) Words and Music is a musical revue with sketches, music, lyrics and direction by Noël Coward. The revue introduced
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (song) song while driving from Hanoi to Saigon "without pen, paper, or piano". Coward himself elucidated: "I wrestled in my mind with the complicated rhythms and rhymes of the song until finally it was complete, without even the aid of pencil and paper. I sang it triumphantly and unaccompanied to my travelling companion on the verandah of a small jungle guest house. Not only Jeffrey [Amherst], but the gecko lizards and the tree frogs gave every vocal indication of enthusiasm". The lines refer to the Noonday Gun opposite the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong, which is still fired every day at