Clever Lyrics that make you Smile Every Time! — Page 2

Most of Sondheims work. That covers most of my favorite lyrics.

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Into the Woods: basically the entire show but one that comes to mind "And take extra care with strangers, even flowers have their dangers. And though scary is exciting, nice is different than good."

Also, from [tos] in Die, Vampire, Die when they go "Your song is repetitive, your song makes me tired; your song is repetitive, and it doesn't rhyme." Oh and in Part of it All when they say "If we need a quick VIP seat to Wicked, we'll get it 'cause we're PopUlar." Makes me smile everytime.

"I'd sooner buy defying gravity."



just kidding.
I'm always smiling when I hear "Getting Married Today." The lyrics are fun, and the speed at which the words come out..haha.

'It's a herb, that's superb, for disturbances at sea." - Pacific Overtures

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"From now on this piece of flesh'll be considered something pretty special"- Mack and Mabel

"Mrs. Mooney has a pie shop!
Does a business but I notice something weird.
Lately all her neighbors' cats have disappeared!
Have to hand it to her --
Wot I calls
Enterprise
Poppin' pussies into pies!
Wouldn't do in my shop!
Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick!
And I'm tellin' you, them ****cats is quick!"
-Sweeney Todd

and "So many cards in the pack,
You want to know how to keep track?
Well, one is good looking and young and rich
While one is good looking and young and rich,
The rest are good looking and young and rich —
There isn't a lot that they lack,
Not Bobby and Jackie and Jack
And Ethel and Ted and Eunice
and Pat and Joan and Steve and Peter and Jean and Sarge —
There's probably dozens of others at large,
God knows
- Merrily We Roll Along

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Darn it, I was just about to quote the "Every I.O.U. I owe..." line.

Close runner up:
"But ya see the trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased? Try the priest!"

"Lucy is juicy
But terribly drab.
Jessie is dressy
But cold as a slab.
Lucy wants to be dressy.
Jessie wants to be juicy.
Lucy wants to be Jessie
And Jessie Lucy.
You see, Jessie is racy
But hard as a rock.
Lucy is lacy
But dull as a smock
Jessie wants to be lacy,
Lucy wants to be Jessie.
That's the sorrowful précis.
It's very messy."
- Follies

"I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high with some gal in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
But I get a kick out of you"

Best internal rhyming ever.

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every lyric in [Title of Show]

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Louie's thoughts aren't hard to follow,
Louie's art isn't hard to swallow.

SITPWG (phallic references aside, I like it for the pure pun of it)

"Should there be
a marital squabble
available Bob'll
be there with the glue"

-Company

From the OBC of Bye Bye Birdie:

Chita Rivera sings in "Spanish Rose" about Albert:

"My handsome Latin lover from THE BRONX!" as if it were impossible. I guess at the time The Bronx didn't have a big latino community. Nowadays it does and that lyric comes off soooo dated. I laugh every time I hear it.

I think the show's creators realized this and jettisoned this lyric and replaced it with another for the 1995 television movie.