Cute little lyrics you love — Page 4

Ditto on the Cadide.


And because Pippin's on the brain right now, here are two that I love from there:

"...and time weaves ribbons of memory to sweeten life when youth is through"

"simple joys have a simple voice that say time is living's price"

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, from Fiddler:

I promise you’ll be happy, and even if you’re not,
There’s more to life than that. Don’t ask me what.

* * *

You heard he has a temper, he’ll beat you every night,
But only when he’s sober, so you’re all right.


Do You Love Me, from Fiddler

Then you love me.
I suppose I do.
And I suppose I love you, too.
It doesn’t change a thing, but even so,
After 25 years, it’s nice to know.


Why Can’t the English, from My Fair Lady

By rights she should be taken out and hung [NOTE: grammatically, it should be “hanged.”]
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.


Let a Woman in Your Life, from My Fair Lady

She’ll have a large, Wagnerian mother, with a voice that shatters glass.


Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh (Il Muto), from Phantom of the Opera

They say that this youth has set my Lady's heart aflame!
His Lordship, sure, would die of shock
His Lordship is a laughing-stock!
Should he suspect her, God protect her!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
This faithless lady's bound for HADES!
Shame! Shame!! Shame!
Serafimo - your disguise is perfect.
Who can this be?
Gentle wife, admit your loving husband.
My love - I am called to England on affairs of State,
And must leave you with your new maid.
Though I'd happily take the maid with me.
The old fool's leaving!
Serafimo - away with this pretence!
You cannot speak, but kiss me in my husband's absence!
Poor fool, he makes me laugh!
Haha, Haha...
Time I tried to get a better better half!
Poor fool, he doesn't know!
Hoho, Hoho...
If he knew the truth, he'd never, ever go!

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Slowly introduce him to the better things
Respectable, conservative and clean:
Reader's Digest
Guy Lombardo
Rogers Peet
Golf!
Galoshes
Ovaltine!

"Sometimes she drinks in bed, sometimes he's homosexual;
But why be vicious, they keep it out of sight,
good show - they're gonna be alright"

- Sondheim

"I sorta hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?"

-INTO THE WOODS

Caroline, or Change:

But you miss - oh, you miss -
The sun and the moon
And the wooden bassoon

And sharing cigarettes -
Do you miss sharing a cigarette?

You be I do, Noah.
You bet . . .

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Pretty much all of Larry Hart's lyric for "The Roxy Music Hall", but particularly

Where an usher puts his heart in what he ushes.
Where the seats caress your carcass with their plushes.
And the fountain changes color when it gushes.

Come with me, where the drinking cups are always free.
It's a wonderland where everyone is Alice.
And the Ladies' Room is bigger than a palace.

I don't think any of these are repeats, but here are some of my favorites, off the top of my head (I think they're all accurate, but I apologize if any are off. Very slow connection here and I can't double-check.):

"There's no time to sit and dither while her withers whither with her,
And no one keeps a cow for a friend!" - Sondheim, "Into the Woods"

Edgar: My father's at the North Pole,
With Admiral Perry and Eskimos!
Where is your mother?
Girl: Dead.
- "Ragtime"

"Look at the world. You think there's a G-d? There isn't a G-d! Not when you've got those crazy nuns like Mother Theresa who won't give those Indians rubbers and so they have babies and babies and everyone's crowded and hungry and starving! Of course, if Indian food was all I had to eat, I wouldn't eat." - LaChiusa, "See What I Wanna See"

"I saw 'My Fair Lady.' I sort of enjoyed it." - Sondheim, "Merrily We Roll Along" (and pretty much all the lyrics in "Opening Doors," and the Kennedy number)

"Some people can't find success with their art
Some people never feel love in their heart
Some people can't tell the two things apart,
But I keep rolling on." - Jason Robert Brown, "The Last Five Years"

"And how your hat is carried in the air just so you can chase it
Just so I can be there
This is how I know
This is what I see
This is love to me" - Adam Guettel, "The Light in the Piazza"

"There's a melody for every malady. Prescription song, you see." - "Passing Strange"