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Adelaide's Lament Lyrics


It says here:
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper resperatory tract.

In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold.

You can spray her wherever you figure there's streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold.

It says here:
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendancy, see note: (looks at note
Chronic organic symptoms
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat.

In other words, just from worrying if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough.

You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.
If she's getting a kind of name for herself, and the name ain't his
A person can develop a cough.

And furthur more, just from stalling, and stalling,
And stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe.

When they get on that train to Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can develop la grippe,
La grippe.
La post nasal drip.
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!

From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting TOO old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!
(ADELAIDE sneezes)
Last Update: February, 10th 2016

Guys and Dolls Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Overture
  3. Runyonland
  4. Fugue for the Tinhorns
  5. Follow the Fold
  6. The Oldest Established
  7. I'll Know
  8. Bushel and a Peck
  9. Adelaide's Lament
  10. Guys and Dolls
  11. Havana
  12. If I Were a Bell
  13. My Time of Day
  14. I've Never Been in Love Before
  15. Act 2
  16. Entr'acte; Take Back Your Mink
  17. Adelaide's Lament (Reprise)
  18. More I Cannot Wish You
  19. Crapshooters' Dance
  20. Luck Be a Lady
  21. Sue Me
  22. Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat
  23. Marry the Man Today
  24. Finale

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