The audience is supposed to stand up for the last verse.
He was a man of character, with a taste for verse.
There's going to be a competition for the best alternative verse I think.
This is the inspiration for the verse in the song.
He then laid it all out for me, chapter and verse, so to speak.
The poem may also be the inspiration for the entire first verse.
It was there that he acquired a taste for verse.
I had always had rather a turn for serious verse.
"If I hadn't caught your attention, you would have laid it out for them chapter and verse."
For the second verse you stop singing 'head' and hum instead.