Ascot Gavotte

"Ascot Gavotte" is a song featured in the 1964 film My Fair Lady with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. In the song, the ladies and gentlemen sing about the fashion of the society Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is about to experience. In dresses and suits, the ladies and the gentlemen are all ready for the horses to start running.

Lyrics[]

Ev'ry duke and earl and peer is here
Ev'ryone who should be here is here.
What a smashing, positively dashing
Spectacle: the Ascot op'ning day.

At the gate are all the horses
Waiting for the cue to fly away.
What a gripping, absolutely ripping
Moment at the Ascot op'ning day.

Pulses rushing!
Faces flushing!
Heartbeats speed up!
I have never been so keyed up!

And any second now
They'll begin to run.
Hark! A bell is ringing,
They are springing

Forward
Look!
It has begun...!

What a frenzied moment that was!
Didn't they maintain an exhausting pace?
'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling
Running of the
Ascot op'ning race.

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Media
My Fair Lady (soundtrack/video)

Characters
Eliza Doolittle • Professor Henry Higgins • Alfred P. Doolittle • Colonel Pickering • Mrs. Higgins • Freddy Eynsford-Hill • Zoltan Karpathy • Mrs. Pearce • Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Locations
Covent Garden • Higgins's House • London • Ascot Racecourse • Embassy Ball

Songs
Why Can't The English? • Wouldn't It Be Loverly? • With A Little Bit Of Luck • I'm an Ordinary Man • Just You Wait • The Rain in Spain • I Could Have Danced All Night • Ascot Gavotte • On the Street Where You Live • You Did It • Show Me • Get Me To The Church On Time • A Hymn to Him • Without You • I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face