unknown

She's mother, she's sister,
She's lover.
She's the wonder of wonders
No man can deny.
So why would he change her?
She's loving- she's tender-
She's woman-
So am i.

Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad.
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.

Sing, sing a song
Let the world sing along
Sing of love there could be
Sing for you and for me.
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear
Just sing, sing a song.

before the parade passes by


Dolly
Before the parade passes by
Before it goes on, and only i'm left
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta get in step while there's still time left
I'm ready to move out in front
Life without life has no reason or rhyme left
With the rest of them
With the best of them
I wanna hold my head up high
I need a goal again
I need a drive again
I wanna feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by...
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta go and taste saturday's high life
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta get some life back into my life
I'm ready to move out in front
I've had enough of just passing by life
With the rest of them
With the best of them
I can hold my head up high
For i've got a goal again
I've got a drive again
I wanna feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by

[interlude]

All:
When the parade passes by
Listen and hear that brass harmony growing
When the parade passes by
Pardon me if my old spirit is showing
All of those lights over there
Seem to be telling me where i'm going

Dolly:
When the whistles blow
And the cymbals crash
And the sparklers light the sky
I'm gonna raise the roof
I'm gonna carry on
Give me an old trombone
Give me an old baton
Before the parade passes by!

Time has passed. fanny has given birth to a daughter, frances, who is now
Five months old, and fanny is going back into the new ziegfeld show. eddie
And mrs. strakosh suggest that fanny's mother needs a new interest in life.

Eddie and mrs. strakosh:
Find yourself a man--
Mrs. brice:
You're demented.
Eddie and mrs. strakosh:
Find yourself a man--
Mrs. brice:
That's just what i need.
Eddie:
You'll see what a difference it makes ev'ry day.
Mrs. brice:
Send me a letter,
You'll write me a resum

You don't have to shout
>from now on i'm out of the kitchen
What's more i can't stand your cigarette brand
And i switchin'
I'm unhappy with things the way they've occurred
It is time to face facts and not mince a word
Certain parties with bird brains are getting the bird!
Au revoir, fare thee well, and good-bye
And i'll tell you why

A funny thing happened on my way to love
I lost the young fellow i've been dreaming of
He changed while i waited and hoped for his call
Into someone who's no fun at all
So i'll start forgetting
What else can i do?
And much thanks for letting me practice on you
It's farewell my lovely
Excuse please my dust
Unravel and travel and lust

No tears
No hurt surprise
It's with a pleasant glow i realize
If i have that much love so deep true and strong
All ready to hand my dear mister wrong
To stew both the treasures, the joy and delight
I'll give to my own mister right.

So hasta lavista, factah, toodle-ooh
The world will keep turning but nut around you
There's someone else waiting who's more than a friend
Best wishes and dishes i'll send
So

So long, i'm on my way
And may i say
If i had this much love so deep true and strong
All ready to hand you my dear mister wrong
Just think of the treasures the joy and delight
I'll give
As long as i live
Day and night
To my own mister right!

Fanny
I loved the man
Truly i did
When he would touch me i act like a love-hungry kid
Isn't this better
Somebody nice somebody new
Someone who lets me react as i normally do
Isn't this better
Better
Passion is fine but passion burns fast
Passions design seems never to last
Better a match better a blend
Who needs a lover i need a friend
Now i am calm save and serene
Heartache and hurt are no longer a part of the scene
Isn't this better
The way it should be
Better for him
And also much better for me
Isn't this better
Better
Passion is fine but passion burns fast
Passions design seems never to last
Better a match better a blend
Who needs a lover i need a friend
Now i am clam save and serene
Heartache and hurt are no longer a part of the scene
Isn't this better
The way it should be
Better for him
Much better for him
And also much better for me

Act ii opens with the newly wed fanny and nick arriving at their home in long island.
Fanny's friends have prepared a surprise party for them. ziegfeld is there, hoping
Fanny will be in his new show; he's even hired her friend eddie as dance director.
Fanny's ziegfeld friends ask her what it's like be married and she replies:

Fanny:
I'm sadie, sadie, married lady,
Bow when i go by.
I'm a corporation now,
Not me, myself and i.
Oh how that marriage license works
On chambermaids and hotel clerks.
The honeymoon was such delight
That we got married that same night.
I'm sadie, sadie, married lady,
Still in bed at noon,
Racking my brain deciding
Between orange juice and prune.
Nick says nothing is too good for me,
And who am i not to agree?
I'm sadie, sadie, married lady, that's me!
All:
She's sadie, sadie, married lady,
Fanny:
Meet a mortgagee,
All:
The owner of an icebox
Fanny:
With a ten-year guarantee.
Oh, sit me in the softest seat,
Quick, a cushion for my feet.
Do for me, buy for me, lift me, carry me,
Finally got a guy to marry me!
I do my nails,
Read up on sales,
All day the records play.
Then he comes home, i tell him
Oy--what a day i had today!
I swear i'll do my wifely job,
Just sit at home--become a slob!
I'm sadie, sadie, married lady, that's me!
All:
She's sadie, sadie, married lady,
Boys:
Sadie, you did the trick.
Fanny:
It's nothing!
Girls:
Not ev'ry girl can get herself
A guy who looks like nick.
Fanny:
Wait, to tell the truth, it hurt my pride--
The groom was prettier than the bride.
All:
Sadie, sadie, married lady,
Fanny:
Husband, house, a mortgage, a baby,
All:
Sadie, sadie, married lady,
Fanny:
That's who?
All:
That's you.
Fanny:
That's me--married lady.
All:
Say hello to ziegfeld's married lady--sadie!

Vandergelder:
It takes a woman all powdered and pink
To joyously clean out the drain in the sink
And it takes an angel with long golden lashes
And soft dresden fingers
For dumping the ashes
Yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife

Cornelius, barnaby, & 2 customers:
O yes it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life

Vandergelder:
The frail young maiden who's constantly there
For washing and blueing and shoeing the mare
And it takes a female for setting the table
And weaving the guernsey
And cleaning the stable

All:
O yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
O yes it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life

And so she'll work until infinity
Three cheers for femininity
God bless femininity

Vandergelder:
And in the winter she'll shovel the ice
And lovingly set out the traps for the mice
She's a joy and treasure for practically speaking
To whom can you turn when the plumbing is leaking?

Vandergelder, cornelius, & barnaby:
To that dainty woman
That fragile woman
That sweetheart, that mistress, that wife
That womanly wife

O yes it takes a woman

Vandergelder:
A husky woman

Vandergelder, cornelius, & barnaby:
To bring you the sweet things in life!

All:
O yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
O yes it takes a woman, a fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life.

Verse:
Look at how she look at me.
I can never look at her that way.
Full of all the feelings and the soft
Unspoken words that lovers say.
In all the words and all the books
I wish there were a way to say that
What she's taught me
Isn't written anywhere
And i'm supposed to be the one
Who's wise.
One thing is certain,
I can never be what she
Expects of me.


I've wanted the shadows,
I don't anymore.
No matter what happens,
I won't anymore.
I've run from the sunlight-
Afraid it saw too much.
The moon had the one light
I bathed in-
I walked in.
I held in my feelings
And close ev'ry door.
No matter what happens,
I can't anymore.

There's someone who must hear
The words i've never spoken.
Tonight if he were here
My silence would be broken.
I need him to touch me-
To know the love that's in my heart-
The same heart that tells me
To see myself-
To free myself-
To be myself at last!

For too many mornings
The curtains were drawn.
It's time they were opened
To welcome the dawn.
A voice deep inside
Is getting stronger.
I can't keep it quiet any longer.
No matter what happens,
It can't be the same anymore.
I promise it won't be the same
Anymore!

I like him
I like him
How strange the feeling
I like him
I never dreamed it could be
He's foolish, unworldly
And yet appealing
I like him
I feel alive and free

How did the birds and the bees outsmart me?
Whose little arrows are these that dart, dart, dart me?

I like him
Up to the ceiling i like him
He's for me
A to z
I like him
I like him
And he likes me

I never dreamed it could be
He's foolish, unworldly
And yet appealing
I like him
A to z
I like him
I like him
And he likes me

I hear a bird
Londonderry bird
It, well, maybe he's bringing me a cheering word
I hear a breeze
A river shannon breeze
It, well, maybe its followed me across the sea
Then tell me please

How are things in glocca morra?
Is that little brook still leaping there?
Does it still run down to donny cove
Through kenny banks, kilcarrey and kildare?
How are things in glocca morra?
Is that willow tree still weeping there?
Does that laddy with the twinklin' eye
Come whistling by?
And does he walk away
Sad and dreamy there
Not to see me there?

So i ask each weeping willow
And each brook along the way
And each lad that comes a whistling
To relay
How are things in glocca morra
This fine day?

**the mist of may is in the gloamin'
And all the clouds are holdin' still
So take my hand and let's go roamin'
Through the heather on the hill

The mornin' dew is blinking yonder
There's lazy music in the air
And all i want to do is wander
Through the heather on the hill

There may be other days as rich and rare
There may be other springs as full and fare
But they won't be the same
They'll come and go
But this i must know

*how are things in glocca morra?
Is that laddy calling to relay?
Can we meet in glocca morra
Some fine day?
Some fine day

With one more look at you
I could learn to tame the clouds
And let the sun shine through
Leave a troubled past and i might start anew
I'll solve the mysteries if you're the prize
Refresh these tired eyes
With one more look at you
I might overcome the anger
That i learned to know
Find a piece of mind i lost so long ago
Your gentle touch has made me strong again
And i belong again
For when you look at me
I'm everything and more that i had dreamed i'd be
My spirit feels a promise
I won't be alone
We'll love and live more
Love and live forever
With one more look at you
I'd learn to change the stars
And change our fortunes too
I'd have the constellations paint your portrait too
So all the world might share this wonderful sight
The world could end each night
With one more look at you
With one more look at you
I want one more look at you
Are you watching me now?
Watch closely now
Your eyes are like fingers
Touching my body
Arousing me so
I'm riding the passion arising inside me
How high can i go?
You're coming with me: i'm gonna show you how
And when it's scary, i won't look down
Are you watching me now?
Watch closely now
I see the hunger arise in your eyes
And it's urging me on
Higher and harder and it's faster and farther
Than i've ever gone
Your pleasure is part of the secret
Of flight that i found
When i feel like an eagle
My soul has no place on the ground
Born out of madness
I'll double the danger with no net at all,
If you don't look away i'm secure
In the fact that you won't let me fall
Watch closely now
Are you watching me now?
I'm the master magician
Who'll help you escape
From the lies you've been told
When they're breaking your back
Bring the last straw to me
I turn straw into glod
I break chains made of boredom that others have lived with for years
I leave good news on doorsteps
And laughs where there used to be tears
I'm gonna need you later
When you're not around
But i can take it
I won't look down
Watch closely now
Are you watching me now?
Watch me now
Are you watching me now?
Are you watching me now?

Look at how he looks at her
Will someone ever look at me that way-
Full of all the feelings and the soft unspoken words
That lovers say?
I thought that i knew ev'ry single look
And sweet expression on his face,
Yet this is one that i don't recognize.
Althought i've set and studied him for hours.
But now i see how love completely occupies
A pair of eyes.

See the way they gaze at her,
Like slaves they follow ev'ry where she goes.
Do my eyes forget themselves
And do i ever look at him
And smile in such a way
That what i'm feeling shows?
Sometimes i have the feeling
Ev'rybody knows.
And even though it's crazy,
Still i can't help wond'ring if i'll ever
Live to see the day
When by some miracle of miracles,
He'll turn around
And look at me that way!

Cornelius & barnaby:
Yes, new york
It's really us
Barnaby and cornelius

Mrs. molloy & minnie:
All the guests of mr. hackl are
Feelin' great and look spectacular

All:
What a knack
There is to that
Acting like a born aristocrat
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

Cornelius:
All who are
Well-bred agree
Minnie fay
Has pedigree

Mrs. molloy:
Exercise your wildest whims tonight
We are out with diamond jims tonight

Minnie:
Could they be
Misleading us?

Cornelius & barnaby:
Silver spoons were used for feeding us

All:
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

[dance interlude]

All:
Middle class
Don't speak of it
Savoir faire
We reek of it
Some were born with rags and patches but
We use dollar bills for matches and

Minnie:
Vanderbilt
Kowtows to us

Cornelius:
J.p. morgan scrapes and bows to us

All:
We've got elegance
We were born with elegance

Barnaby:
I beheave like walter wally
When the streets are full of mud

Mrs. molloy:
And the bluest huckelberry isn't bluer than my blood

Minnie:
Have you noticed when i hold my cup
The saucer never moves

Cornelius:
And the way i keep my pinky up
Indubitably proves that

All:
We got elegance
We got built in elegance
And with elegance...elegance...
Elegance...elegance...elegance
We'll carry it off!


All:
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off
We got elegance...

I am woman, you are man
I am smaller, so you can be taller than
I am softer to the touch
It's a feeling you like feeling very much

You are someone whom i've admired
Still our friendship leaves something to be desired
Does it take more explanation than this?
I am woman, you are man

I am woman
You are man
Let's kiss

Between the very dead of night and day
Upon a steely sheet of light i'll lay
And in the moonfall
I'll give myself to you
I'll bathe in moonfall
And dress myself in dew

Before the cloak of night reveals the morn
Time holds its breathe while it conceals the dawn
And in the moonfall
All sound is frozen still
Yet warm against me
Your skin will warm the chill
Of moonfall
I feel its fingers lingers the veil of night shade
Light made from stars that all too soon fall
Moonfall
That falls from you

Betwixed our hearts let nothing intervene
Between our eyes the only sight i've seen
Is lustrous moonfall as it blinds my view
So that soon i only see but you

I'm late, late, late, late, late...
I run and then i hop, hop, hop,
I wish that i could fly.there's danger if i stop, stop, stop and here's the reason why.

You see, i'm overdue.
I'm in a kinda rabbit stew,
Can't even say goodbye, hello, i'm late.

C'est si bon
Lovers say that in france
When they thrill to romance
It means that it's so good
C'est si bon
So i say to you
Like the french people do
Because it's oh so good
Every word, every sigh, every kiss, dear,
Leads to only one thought
And the thought is this, dear!
C'est si bon
Nothing else can replace
Just your slyest embrace
And if you only would be my own for the rest my days
I will whisper this phrase
My darling, my darling...
C'est si bon!

Fanny & chorus
Smooth the sofa, plump the pillows
Dump the ashtrays, oh this dress
Look at me i am shaking all over,
Shaking all over
I'm a mess
Waiting wondering what i'll be thinking
When he comes walking through that door

What'll come walking through that door
A man i never saw in my life before
Oh,
I am so nervous
I got a blind date waiting to call on me (any minute now)
I got a blind date what am i gonna see (any minute now)
Right over there's the doorway, he will be walking through
Will he be six foot eight or maybe four foot two (it could happen)

I got a blind date waiting to come around (any minute now)
Oy but i'm nervous listen to my heart pound
Why do i need this headache, single is not a crime
I got a blind date
An with my luck he'll be on time

I got a girlfriend shirley, who says why not (she's an idiot)
This guy is a friend from a friend of a friend she got (hello, how do you do
What an idiot)
One thing i know is shirley ain't sitting on no shelf
If he was such a vow she'd keep him for herself (it's only natural)
She says she is he's nice and he deals in stocks (sounds good, but she's an
Idiot)
I'll bet a buck he looks like month-old lox (also and idiot)
What do i need from shirley her and her fifty cup
I got a blind date and i'm praying he stands me up

Wait wait, what am i praying he stands me up, i'll stand him up. i smell a rat
Anyway. umm. i'm gonna hide under the bed, he'll never see me, he'll walk in and look
Around, i wouldn't be there, he'll go away and that's the end of that.
Perrfect!
Now you keep quiet, not a word you hear
You didn't see a thing
Oeps there he is!
Now quiet everybody sssh quiet!

Blind date: rosalie?!
Rosalie: oi, oi, oi
Blind date: rosalie?! that's odd she doesn't seem to be here
Rosalie: smart, smart!
Blind date: i've been stood up, it's news
Rosalie: well it's better than put down
Blind date: this has never happened before
Rosalie: what and ego!
Blind date: rosalie?!
Rosalie: sh, sh, sh!
Rosalie: it worked, it worked!
He never saw me. boy am i lucky i didn't see him neither,
But i can just imagine what a lox that one was.

Rosalie: i got it right her shirley was playing tricks
Voice: no, no, that's wrong, you got it wrong
Rosalie: wait, wait, what that's not right?
Voice: no, he was gorgeous he looked like rudolph
Rosalie: rudolph who?
Voice: rudolph valentino
Rosalie: get away
Voice: yeah, the sheik from arabia
Rosalie: not the phantom from the opera?
Voice: uh, uh
Rosalie: the sheik from where?
Voice: the sheik from arabia
Rosalie: get away
Voice: that's right
Rosalie: wait a minute is this person kidding me around here?
Voice: no, no absolutely
Rosalie: get away
Rosalie: well that's what happened i let him get away

What do i'll do now maybe become a nun (that's impossible)
I'm calling shirley maybe she'll bring a gun
Please shirley, even if he's lon chaney fat, bald or short or tall
Having a blind date is better than having
No date, at no time with no one at all.
Wait a minute maybe i spoke too soon
Shirley get me out of here!
Oh this one is cute.

People are born to love and be happy
Living a sunshine
And a cloudy sky can lead to a rainbow
Lookin' at life that way

(chorus)
If you're lucky to find a special man
You gotta love him all you can
And anything he wants from you
Should be the least that you can do
Don't let him down
Just give him love
Don't let his dreams turn into dust
He's only tryin' to build a wonderland for two
If you're the one to share his world
Just be the someone he can trust
For the sake of love
For the love of love
For pete's sake
Don't let him down
Don't let him down

You can live in a castle
And dream of your diamonds
Thinkin' you really walk tall
But livin' and dreamin' when you're alone
Ain't livin' or dreamin' at all

(repeat chorus to fade)

When i fall you're my place to mend
I lose my touch, you're my hands
The one i hold on to
If you run out of reasons to try
I'll love enough for both you and i
I'll be the one you can run to
Bridge
I'd rather go through any pain love puts us through
Than to spend one day without you by my side

Chorus
If you ever leave me
Will u take me with u?
If you're ever lonely
I wanna be lonely too
My home's beside you
No matter where you may go
My love's inside you
Even more than you know.

In a world of anger and lies
I find peace in your eyes
A flame in the darkness

Ooh

Nick asks flo to invest in a casino nick has decided to launch, but flo's money
Is tied up in his new show, so fanny becomes nick's partner. fanny is featured
In the new 1920 ziegfeld follies world war i tribute number:

Eddie:
Our boys went rat-tat-tat-tat,
Rat-tat-tat-tat,
And shot the kaiser where he sat-tat-tat-at.
With every poppity-pop,
Some kraut took a drop.
American boys are all such straight shooters--
We'll take care of him, mother,
When he comes home from the war.
We'll take care of him, mother,
We'll do everything that you would do--yeah--and more.
Rat-tat-tat-tat,
We'll give their backs a big pat.
They deserve a future full of joys
'cause they're our yankee doodle,
Yankee doodle,
Yankee doodle,
Doughboys.
Company--order--arms--roll call--
Company:
I'm private jones from arkansas,
I'm private smith from kansas,
I'm private ryan from maine,
I'm private burke from wisconsin,
I'm private o'brien from texas,
I'm private muntz from michigan,
Fanny:
.i'm private schvartz from rock-a-way,
And i guess you heard reports
That the kaiser runs a block away
When they tell him, here comes schvartz,
'cause ven i get mad, believe it, jack,
Out from nowhere comes a maniac,
A kick in the foot,
A shot in the pants--
I wouldn't give a second chance.
Schvartz from rock-a-way.
Chorus:
Private schwartz
Private schwartz
Private schwartz from rock-a-way.
Fanny:
I met mademoiselle from armentieres
And my bagels gave a spin (oy, yoy),
She said, private schvartz,
Come closer, dear!
What a tzimmis i got in!
Ven you're fighting for democracy,
Call on irving schvartz and company,
I'm through and through
Red, white and bluish,
I talk this way
Because i'm british.
Tell far rock-a-way, don't pull the dock away,
'cause sailing home is general schvartz.
All:
Rat-ta ta ta ta tat,
We'll give their backs a big pat.
They deserve a great big medal
And a loud huzzah,
Over here and over there
You'll hear
Rat-tat a tat tat,
Rat-tat a tat tat,
Rat tat a tat tat tat,
That's our yankee doodle,
Yankee doodle
Rat tat a tat tat tat
Hurrah.

I met a boy called frank mills
On september twelfth right here
In front of waverly
But unfortunately
I lost his address

He was last seen with his friend
A drummer
He resembles george harrison of the beatles
But he wears his hair
Tied in a small bow at the back

I love him
But it embarrasses me
To walk down the street with him
He lives in brooklyn somewhere
And wears this white crash helmet

He has gold chains on his leather jacket
And on the back are written the names
Mary and mom and "hell's angels"

I would gratefully appreciate it
If you see him tell him
I'm in the park with my girlfriend
And please
Tell him angela and i don't want the two dollars back
Just him

Single only (1969)

When the lovin' goes out of the lovin'
And there isn't a thing you can do
But reminesce of yesterdays
Second guess his changing ways
And fill your time with people just like you

When the lovin' goes out of the lovin'
And there isn't a thing you can say
You bite your tongue and wonder why
And then you watch your life flash by
Hoping things will turn around your way

There isn't a lovin' thing i can say
There isn't a lovin' thing i can do
There isn't a lovin' way in this world
I can reach you
How can i walk away and feel free
When lovin' you means my whole life to me?
There isn't a lovin' way i could ever leave
And be free

When the lovin' goes out of the lovin'
And there's no easy way to pretend
That anything could ever be
As good a thing as you and me
Its hard to understand this is the end

There isn't a lovin' thing i can say
There isn't a lovin' thing i can do
There isn't a lovin' way in this world
I could ever reach you
How can i walk away and feel free
When lovin' you means my whole life to me?
There isn't a lovin' way i could ever leave
And be free

Oh, when the lovin' goes out of the lovin'

remember when...
Online was where you hung the wash
And a megabyte was a really big nosh
And if it was a virus you got
You went to the doctor and got a shot, uhhh.

Internet or interface
Download, upload, database
Pixel, shmixle, cyber speak
They may as well be speaking greek!

Once... a floppy disk meant you had a bum back
A hack drove a cab
And a burgral was a mac
Modems, chat rooms, dos and dots
A mouse in your pad, that's why we had cats

Nowadays... you need a degree from mit
To operate your own tv
I used to find a channel quicker
When all you needed was one clicker
Listen, i don't mean to bicker
But now my clicker has a clicker
And each new clicker makes me sicker
If i could only find a clicker
To turn all the clickers off!!!

mornings, evenings
Days that hurried past
Dreams that should have lasted
Moments, hours
Slipping by as we
Told each other secrets
Somehow i'll never let go of the memories
Something always seems to remind me
Of how it was of what it was
What it was
All there was
Laughter, love songs
Footsteps that i hear
Make me think you're near me
Poems, pictures
Letters never mailed
Boats that never sailed
Remember that even though we can't be together
We're more for having loved one another
We shared the sky
We learned to fly
Someday when someone else

Horace:
Hello, dolly!
Well, hello, dolly!
It's so nice to have you here
Where you belong
I never knew dolly
Without you, dolly
Life was awfully flat
And more than that
Was awfully wrong

Dolly:
Here's my hat, horace!
I'm staying where i'm at, horace!
Dolly will never go away...

Horace:
Wonderful woman!

Both:
Again. . .

Townspeople:
Put on you sunday clothes
When you feel dawn and out
Strut down the street and have your picture took
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about
That sunday shine is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!

Take the someone whose arms you're in
Hold onto her tight and spin
And one two three, one two three, one two three
Look!

Cornelius:
I held her
For an instant
But my arms felt sure and strong

All:
It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long...

Men:
Yes, it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
Oh yes, it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things
In life!

All:
Well, well, hello, dolly!
Well, hello, dolly!
It' so nice to have you back
Where you belong
You're looking swell, dolly!
We can tell, dolly!
You're still glowin'
You're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
You'll see the crowd swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of your old favorite songs
From way back when

Dolly
Wow, wow, wow, fellas
Look at the old girl now, fellas!

Chorus
Dolly, you'll never go away
Dolly, you'll never go away
Dolly, you'll never go away
Again!


Hello dolly, 1969

Funny girl is the life of vaudeville comedienne fanny brice (1891-1951), starting in 1910.
Actually the show starts after she has become a success on stage and flashes back to her
Origins. it opens in fanny's dressing room. she is waiting for her husband, nick arnstein,
To return after being in prison. she looks back to when she was a 19-year old hopeful.
Her mother's poker buddies think she's wasting her life trying to break into show business.
Mrs. strakosh:
Fanny, when people pay good money in the the-ay-ter--
Especially the male element--they want something to look at!

If a girl isn't pretty
Like a miss atlantic city,
All she gets in life
Is pity and a pat.
Mrs. brice:
Is a nose with deviation
Such a crime against the nation?
Should i throw her into jail
Or drown the cat?
Mrs. strakosh, o' malley and
Meeker:
She must shine in ev'ry detail
Like a ring you're buying retail,
Be a standard size that
Fits a standard dress.
Mrs. strakosh:
When a girl's incidentals
Are no bigger than two lentils
Mrs. strakosh, o' malley and
Meeker:
Then to me that doesn't spell success.


Fanny auditions for keeney's music hall but keeney kicks her out of the chorus
Because she doesn't look like the others.
Eddie ryan, dance director for keeney, agrees:

Eddie:
If a girl isn't pretty
Like a miss atlantic city,
She should dump the stage
And try another route.
Any guy who pays a quarter
For a seat just feels he oughter
See a figger that his wife can't
Substitute.

Kid, my heart ain't made of marble
But your rhythm's really horr'ble
And that map of yours just ain't no
Valentine.
Everything you got's about right,
But the damn thing don't come out right
So forget it, kid,
And just resign.
Chorus:
If a girl isn't pretty,
If a girl isn't pretty,
If a girl isn't pretty,
If a girl isn't pretty,
If a girl isn't pretty,
She should get a job,
Go get a job--
Get any job
Get a weekly pay,
'cause if a girl isn't pretty
Like a miss atlantic city,
She's a real miss nobody, u.s.a.

Well i'll be damned
No i won't be damned
Because i have been damned
And i won't be damned anymore!
I walked out
He didn't walk out
It was me who walked out
It was me closing the door

"hello, operator?" i'd like to place a long distance call to a mr.
Billy rose in cleveland ohio. at the cleveland hotel. um, no, no, no,
No. i'll wait."

Billy's an alley cat that's for sure
Nick's from a horsier class
But i'd rather be with a cat's meow
Than a genuine thouroughbred horse's ass!

"um, that's alright. no. no message. thank you."

One is fantasy, one is real
One is make believe, one is real
One is picture book,
More like comic book
One is real
Billy is real
I should have seen that before

All my life on the stage
I'm a big success
All my life off the stage
What a mess!
Oh what a mess!
All my life on the stage
How they cheer the clown
All my life off the stage
I kept closing out of town

When i'm up there i'm a great big star
And i get the heftiest lift
Howdy-do!
Up there i'm a great big star
A solid and qualified hit
I'm gonna take what i do up there
And i'm gonna do it down here!

Quick as a lightning flash
I'm moving straight ahead
I'm gonna be a smash
I'm gonna knock 'em dead.......

What a beautiful night, isn't it? the smell, crickets, ah! it worries me that we are tempering with what it took three-hundred eighty million years to create. we're being reckless with this w
Miraculous balance of nature.but i have great faith in people. i believe that if they're told, if they understand what's at stake, they will make a change. they always have. so this is for you. you-you who have the opportunity to raise your voices and do it again. the future is in your hands...

It's a new world i see
A new world for me
The tears have rolled off my cheek
And fears fade away
Every time you speak
A new world
Though we're in a tiny room
What a vision of joy
And blossom and bloom
A new found promise
One that will last
So i'm holding on
And i'm holding fast
You bring a new world to me
The way the world should be...

10. love is only love [top]
Dolly:
Horace vandergelder, mrs. horace vandergelder
Just leave ev'rything to me
Though it wont be like the first time
How can it be like the first time?
But why does it have to be?
Don't look for shooting stars
For love is only love
You touch and still you touch the ground
Don't listen for those bells
For love is only love
And if it's love you've found
Your heart won't hear a sound
And you hold his hand
You only hold his hand
The violins are all a bluff
But if you're really wise
The silence of his eyes
Will tell you
Love is only love
And it's wonderful enough
Without the shooting star
Without the sounds of bells
Without the violins
Love is wonderful enough!

I've never been wrong
But you' re the only one i trust to show me the way
I always hear your voice
And in my dreams i hear you calling my name...
What is it about you?
Some kind of light shines from your face
And i can't turn away
I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken and i've been hypnotized
I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken and i've been hypnotized
And your eyes say everything
You want to keep me here forever
I can't escape
One minute's so sincere
Then you completely turn against me and i'm afraid
You don't have to say you love me
'causa if you want me, i'll stay
'cause i can turn away
I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken, taken by surprise
I'm like e prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken and i've been hypnotized
I'm like a prisoner...

Fanny & chorus
Feeling awfully bad
What a time i had
Cause i didn't buttoned up my overcoat
Hatsjoe
All i do is sniff
Pass that handkerchief
What a funny feeling in my eyes and ears and throat
Oy, i can't sleep i can't eat
Get a pail and soak my feet
I got a code in my doze
O, i got a code in my doze
Please repeat what you said
Funny noises in my head
I got a code in my doze
Oh, i got a code in my doze
Went to see the doctor
Asked him what to do
Lordy help that doctor
He said i think i got one too
So we laid down side by side
I'm still here but the doctor died
I got a code in my doze
Oh, i got a code in my doze
Hatsjoe

Cornelius:
It only takes a moment
For your eyes to meet and then
Your heart knows in a moment
You will never be alone again
I held her for an instant
But my arms felt sure and strong
It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long...

Clerk:
I missed a few words back there, mr. hackl.
Right after 'it only'...

All in docket:
...takes a moment!
But his arms felt sure and strong
It only takes a moment

Mrs. molloy:
He held me for an instant
But his arms felt safe and strong
It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long

Cornelius:
And that is all
That love's about

Mrs. molloy:
And we'll recall when time runs out

Both:
That it only took a moment
To be loved a whole life long!

Rose brice's saloon on henry street is the center of a block party decorated
With banners congratulating fanny. the neighbors and party guests all sing:

All:
Henry street,
No, it ain't broadway, it's henry street.
Way after midnight
Lit up as bright as a lighthouse
Brighter tonight than the white house.
Boys:
We're proud to tell you that c.p.a.'s
We got in dozens, and lawyers, take your choice.
Messes and messes of young d.d.-esses,
A looney who teaches voice,
Girls:
Ah, ha, ha, ha--
All:
Henry street has something it ain't had so far:
The greatest, most glamorous, genuine, glorified
Ziegfeld star.
We're proud to tell you that c.p.a.'s
We got in dozens, and lawyers, take your choice.
Messes and messes of young d.d.-esses,
A looney who teaches voice,
Ah, ha, ha, ha--
Henry street has something it ain't had so far:
The greatest, most glamorous, genuine, glorified
Ziegfeld star.

Fanny convinces eddie she has talent and he agrees to teach her the specialty
For the next audition. she gets the job.

Fanny:
Well--
I just put the kids to sleep
And swept the shack,
Took my sweet man's satchel down
And watched him pack,
I said, "darlin', while the stove still smolders,
Unpin your woman's hair and rub her shoulders."
I threw myself across the doorway
Beggin', "stay, sweet man, stay,"
But there's more in my man's life
Than this old hag.
It's jelly roll morton, and a shiny cornet,
And jazzin' the rag!
The lady ain't been born
Can take the place of a horn,
With a cornet man.
A-goin' where there's blowin',
Trav'lin' cornet man.
Just anytime they call him
He'll leave his wife and kiddies
Sittin' with their tongues out
To play for peanuts in a dive
And blow his lungs out.
He'll hop a choo-choo on a moment's notice
To play some dates with billy bates
Or rag-time otis!
The lady ain't see light
Can give a horn a fair fight
With a cornet man
A rootin', shootin', ever-tootin' dapper dan
Who carries in his satchel
A powder-blue norfolk suit,
A silver-plated wah-wah mute,
There is whiskey, gamblin'--each one is a curse,
But i'm up against a devil that's worse.
Yes, a horn is my thorn,
My trav'lin' cornet man!

Kill yourself! tell me about it! yeah! yeah!

A powder-blue norfolk suit,
I said a silver-plated wah-wah mute,
Oh he's shy on height,
He's short on weight,
But he's the only man can make my coffee perculate,
A dapper dan,
My cornet-playin' man.

After the performance, nick arnstein comes backstage, elegant in formal dress,
To pay off a gambling debt to keeney. nick has seen the show and tells fanny
She's going to be a big star some day. fanny asks how much keeney is paying her,
And nick manages to jack up her salary by pretending to bid on behalf of a competitor.
He gives her his card and kisses her hand. eddie asks fanny out for a date,
But she only wants to be friends; already she has fallen for nick, but imagines she'll
Never see him again.

on my own


On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when i loose my way
I close my eyes and he has found me

In the rain
The pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness
The trees are full of starlight
And all i see is him and me forever

And i know
Its only in my mind
That i'm talking to myself
And not to him
And although i know that he is blind
Still i say
There's a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
And the river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are barren everywhere
And the streets are full of strangers

I love him
But everyday i'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness
That i have never known

I love him
I love him
I love him
But only
On my own

Time has come again
And love is in the wind
Like some music in a dream
You made them all come true
When you came inside of my life
Now i'm lost
Inside of you
Lost in the music
And lost in your eyes
I could spend all of my time
Hearing songs you sing
Feeling love you bring
Darling being close to you
Made all ...
Made all my dreams come true
When you came inside my life
Now i'm lost inside of you

No wonder he loves her-
No wonder at all.
The moment she sees him,
Her thought is to please him.
Before he even knows that he's hungry
She's already there with his plate.
Before his glass is even empty
She's filling it up,
God forbid he should wait!
Before he as the chance to tell her
He's chilly,
She'll go to put a log on the fire-
Fulfilling his ev'ry desire-
No trouble.
No bother.
No wonder she's pretty,
What else shoud she be?
She hasn't a worry,
And why should she worry?
When she gets up her biggest decision
Is figuring out what to wear.
To pick a blouse, a skirt,
And then there's the problem of what
Should she do with her hair.
And later as she stands and studies a chicken,
The question's "to roast or to not roast?
Or better yet maybe a pot roast?
Tomatoes? no.
Potatoes?
No wonder he likes it-
It's perfect this way.
Who wouldn't want someone who fusses and flatters?
Who makes you feel that you're all that matters?
Whose only aim in life is to serve you
And make you think she doesn't deserve you?
No wonder he loves her-
What else could he do?
If i were a man-
I would to!

The summer smiles, the summer knows
And unashamed she sheds her clothes,
The summer smoothes the restless sky
And lovingly she warms the sand
On which you lie
The summer knows, the summer's wise,
She sees the doubts within your eyes
And so she takes her summertime
Tells the moon to wait and the sun to linger
Twists the world round her summer finger
Lets you see the wonder of it all

And if you've learned your lesson well
There's little more for her to tell
One last caress
It's time to dress
For fall.

And if you've learned your lesson well
There's little more for her to tell
One last caress
It's time to dress
For fall.

I was alone,
You were alone,
Parallel lines that touched one another.
Just feeling our way,
Lost in the dark,
Drawn to each other...

So much to say, and so much to do.
So much of you for me to discover.
Like what makes you laugh,
And what makes you cry,
How does a friend become a lover, too...

I've waited all of my life to find
Someone who'd need my heart and read my mind.
To light my days and warm my nights.
Someone i know i could call,
My someone for all my life.

Looking at you, looking at me,
Loving the look of love that i see there.
I find when i look deep in your eyes
Reflections of me there.

I've waited all of my life to find
Someone who'd need my heart and read my mind.
To light my days and warm my nights.
Now all at once in your arms.
Everything's new.
All that i feel, tells me it's true.
All that i ask
Is all of my life... with you.

Fanny
I often wonder why he came to me
Brought such a flame to me
Then let it die
And if another love should find my heart
It will remind my heart of your goodbye
With every new love
You'll come back to me
In other eyes it's you i see
If i love again
Though it's someone new
If i love again
It will still be you
In someone else's firm embrace
I close my eyes but see your face
If i love again
I'll find another charms
But i'll make believe

You are in my arms
And though my lips whisper "love me!"
My heart will not be true
I'll be loving you
Every time i love again...

He's not a well man
And he's getting worse
If he had any sense
He'd be in bed with a graduate nurse
A couple of big specialists
High priced consultation
And outside waiting in the hall
Assorted logic small poor relations
His aches have got aches
His pains are in pain
And what sizzles and frizzles
Inside there all the smartest professors could not explain
-they wouldn't know what?
Be quick as you can
I might haven't got
You're dealing with not (cough!)
With not a well man
I'm not a well man
Get worse every year
All the medical doctors
Give one look
They're amazed i'm still here
I should own a pharmacy
For just my prescriptions
My bills for only pills alone
Would chill you to the bone
With conniptions
What i have been through
No man could recite
It would make your heart break
And play a story that only
Turn yet it maybe could write
A tragical plot
How can i plan?
I might haven't got
You're dealing with not (cough!)
With not a well man
I'm not a well man

There are moments you remember all your life.
There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life.
This is one of those moments.

I will always remember this chair, that window,
The way the light streams in.
The clothes i'm wearing,
The words i'm hearing,
The faces i'm seeing,
The feeling i'm feeling,
The smell, the sound, will be written on my mind,
Will be written in my heart as long as i live!

I can travel the past and take what i need
To see me throught the years.
What my father learned and his father before him
Will be there for my eyes and ears.
I can walk through the forests of the trees of knowledge
And listen to the lessons of the leaves.
I can entre rooms where there are rooms within rooms,
Wrapped in a shawl that learning weaves.

I remember, papa-
Ev'rything you taught me!
What you gave me, papa-
Look at what it's brought me!

There are certain things that once you have
No man can take away-
No wave can wash away-
No wind can blow away-
And now they're about to be mine!
No tide can turn away-
No fire can burn away-
No time can wear away.

I can open doors and take from the shelves
All the books i've longed to hold.
I can ask all the questions,
The whys and the wheres
As the myst'ries of life unfold.
Like a link in a chain from the past to the future,
That joins me with the children yet to be,
I can now be a part of the ongoing stream,
That has always been a part of me!

There are certain things that once you have
No man can take away-
No wave can wash away-
No wind can blow away-
No tide can turn away-
No fire can burn away-
No time can wear away-
And now they're about to be mine!

There are moments you remember all your life.
There are moments you wait for and dream of all your life.
This is one of those moments!