I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple Lyrics – Kiss Me, Kate
I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple Lyrics
KATAHARINE:
I am ashamed the women a so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway
When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
So, wife, hold your temper and meekly put
Your hand 'neath the sole of your husband's foot,
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready,
Ready,
May it do him ease.
I am ashamed the women a so simple
To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway
When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
So, wife, hold your temper and meekly put
Your hand 'neath the sole of your husband's foot,
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready,
Ready,
May it do him ease.
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Kiss Me, Kate Lyrics: Song List
- Act 1
- Another Op'nin', Another Show
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Wunderbar
- So in Love
- We Open in Venice
- Tom, Dick, or Harry
- I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- Cantiamo d'Amore (We Sing of Love)
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Act 2
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is the Life That Late I Led?
- Always True to You (In My Fashion)
- From This Moment On
- Bianca
- So in Love (Reprise)
- Brush up Your Shakespeare
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
- Kiss Me, Kate (Finale)