Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time!

[SpringAwakening789]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 3:13am

I was listening to Evita tonight and smiled when I heard the lines from 'Rainbow Tour'

Evita: Did you hear that? They called me a whore!
They actually called me a whore !

Admiral: But Signora Peron it's an easy mistake
I'm still called an admiral
Yet I gave up the sea long ago!

What are some other clever/funny lyrics that make you smile every time you hear them?

Updated On: 8/14/08 at 03:13 AM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:25am

From INTO THE WOODS:

We've no time to sit and dither
While her withers wither with her

[Mike3]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:38am

Best to take the moment present as a present, for the moment.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 6:36am

Into the Woods-pretty much EVERYTHING, but this one comes to mind:
"bears are sweet. besides have you ever seen a bear with forty-foot feet?"

All I can come up with at 6 am.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 8:35am

This section from "Letter of the Law" from Foxy:

"Though the plaintiff's allegation
That he harmed her reputation
May be just a fabrication
Of her own imagination
In your sheriff's estimation
It's a big consideration
And a point the population
Seems completely to have missed

Any further reparation
Would be merely affectation
And a recapitulation
Of a hopeless situation
After due deliberation
In the interest of the nation
It is my adjudication
That the jury be dismissed."

[philcrosby]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 8:42am

We'll wear our hand-made grey suede buttoned glove
... "Put on Your Sunday Clothes"

just about all of "The Miller's Son"

[Boq101]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 10:31am

Yuo needn't be so generous with your seed
Your fertile lies don't fertilize it needs work.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 10:45am

"Whats that muddle in the middle? Thats the Puddle where the poodle did the piddle." SITPWG

"And the candles in our hand will illuminate this land if not tomorow then the day after that" Kiss of the Spider Woman

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 10:47am

Mine is from "Into the Woods," too:

It's your father's fault that curse got placed
and the place got cursed in the first place.

[ChicagoPLAYer]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 10:50am

"Look at your couch - It's Homo-Baroque
Don't talk to me about taste!"
FALSETTOS

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 10:52am

Boq - you picked my absolute favorite, but it's worth including the whole quote to show how clever it really is:

And come to think of it
Your writing always mirrored our relationship
With dangers cropping up
And sweet young strangers popping up like weeds.
So if you wish official pardoning
You better do a little gardening
You know you needn't be so generous with your seeds
Your fertile lies don't fertilize
It needs work.

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:03pm

My Fair Lady:
"You, dear friend, who talk so well --
You can go to Hartford, Heresford, and Hampshire!"

Falsettoland:
"Just what I wanted at a little league game:
My ex-husband's ex-lover!
Isn't that what every mother dreams about having
at a little league game?"

[jv92]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:23pm

From "Uptown/Downtown", cut from Follies-

She sits
At the Ritz
With her splits
of Mumms.
And starts to pine
For stein
With her village chums.
But with her schlitz
In her mitts
Down in Fitz-
-Roy's bar,
She thinks of the Ritz, oh-
It's so schizo!

[Weez]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 2:33pm

At the risk of alarming any traditionalists, I'm going to save myself from picking through the hundreds of amazing Sondheim lyrics and go straight for my favourite bit of 'In The Heights':

"And check it, don't get stuck in the rubber-necking on 192nd, there's a double-decker bus wreck."

I smile every time I hear it. :3

[Barihunk]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 3:20pm

Here's to our firsts, We learned alot
Our future will be gloriously fecund.
Of firsts we've had the same amount.
Now we'll make each second count.
From now on my first to be second comes first.

and

Truth is my friend, just between good guys.
Whichever path you take, which life you pick to live in
Whichever choice you make, the longing is a given
And that's what brings the ache
That only the good guys know.

Updated On: 8/14/08 at 03:20 PM

[mauriposa]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 3:28pm

From In the Heights, when they're at the Club and Usnavi says, "As long as you buy 'em, L'chaim!" I don't know why, but it cracks me up every time.

[Amalia Balash]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 3:54pm

Could I Leave You from Follies -- all of the song, actually, but especially:

Could I leave you?
No, the point is, could you leave me?
Well, I guess you could leave me the house,
Leave me the flat,
Leave me the Braques and Chagalls and all that.
You could leave me the stocks for sentiment's sake
And ninety percent of the money you make.
And the rugs
And the cooks--
Darling, you keep the drugs.
Angel, you keep the books,
Honey, I'll take the grand,
Sugar you keep the spinet
And all of our friends and--
Just wait a goddam minute!
Oh, leave you? Leave you?
How could I leave you?
Sweetheart, I have to confess:
Could I leave you?
Yes.
Will I leave you?
Will I leave you?
Guess!

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:24pm

SWEENEY TODD---

Lovette: Here's the politician so oily it's served on a doily, not one?
Todd:Put it on a bun. Well you never know if it's going to run.

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:27pm

"Gimme Fat boys famous arrow" TMM


Well, I like it.

[sally1112]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:31pm

"Tall enough to be your mother," from Company

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:34pm

From Kiss Me, Kate:

"If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the "Coriolanus."

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:41pm

Rockabye, you just reminded me of an old favorite. I'm about to lose all credibility, but here goes.

From the musical version of "Hamlet" on "Gilligan's Island"; Ginger sings this to the tune of the Barcarolle:

"Hamlet, Hamlet,
Do be a lamb, let
rotten enough alone.

From Ophelia
No one can steal ya.
You'll always be my own."

I'm not proud of it, but I've always remembered it, and it always make me laugh.

[heathurrr]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:48pm

""Tall enough to be your mother," from Company"

Sally beat me to it!

And, lately this line from ITH is making me smile:

"You hear that music in the air? Take the train to the top of the world..."

AND the "vegetable medley" line from [tos]!

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 5:52pm

"What's the muddle, in the middle?"
"That's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle" from SITPWG
hahaha i even smiled while typing it!

"And then in bed George, I mean he kneads me, I mean like dough, George!" SITPWG

Literally all of Into the Woods...

"You don't mean..."
"I'll give you three guesses."
"She wouldn't..."
"Reduce it to two."
"It can't be!"
"It never the less is-"
"Egerman"
"Right! Score one for you."- A Little Night Music


"Barely knowing right from right...nor left from wrong!"- The Drowsy Chaperone

"I would rather wear a barrel than conservative apparel"- Aida

"Oh you can't shoot a male in the tail like a quail" Annie Get Your Gun

...musical theatre in general just make me smile!

[skb2010]

Posted: 8/14/08 at 6:15pm

"A thicket it's no trick, is it thick??
"It's the thickest"
"The quickest is pick it apart with a stick"
"Yes but even one ****it's my thing about blood"
"Well it's sick"
"It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves"
"Dwarfs! Dwarfs are very upsetting"

Agony, Into The Woods