Dites Moi
A Cockeyed Optimist
Twin Soliloquies
Some Enchanted Evening
Bloody Mary
There Is Nothing Like a Dame
Bali Ha'i
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
A Wonderful Guy
Younger Than Springtime
Happy Talk
Honey Bun
You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
This Nearly Was Mine
Finale





Dites Moi  [ Top ]

Ngana and Jerome
Dites-moi
Porquoi
La vie est belle-
Dies-moi
Porquoi
La vie est gai!
Dites-moi
Porquoi,
Chere Mad'moiselle,
Est-ce que
Parce que
Vou m'aimez?

Translation of Dites-Moi
Tell me why, please do,
Life is so pretty
Tell me why, please do,
Life is so gay
Tel me why, won't you,
Dear mademoiselle
Could it be? Would it be?
You love me?


A Cockeyed Optimist  [ Top ]

Nellie
When the skies are a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I've ever seen
So they called me a cockeyed optimist 
Immature and incurably green
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head
I hear the human race is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go
But every whip-or-will is selling me a bill
And telling me it just ain't so!
I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-O
And appear  more intelligent and smart
But I'm stuck like a dope with a thing called hope
And I can't get it out of my heart
Not this heart...


Twin Soliloquies  [ Top ]

Nellie
Wonder how I'd feel living on a hillside
Looking at an ocean beautiful and still

Emile
This is what I need, this is what I've longed for
Someone young and smiling climbing up my hill

Nellie
We are not alike, probably I bore him
He's a cultured Frenchman, I'm a little hick

Emile
Younger man than I, officers and doctors
Probably pursue her, she could have her pick

Nellie
Wonder why I feel jittery, jumpy,
I'm like a school girl waiting for a dance

Emile
Can I ask her now?
I'm like a school boy, what will be her answer
Do I have a chance?


Some Enchanted Evening  [ Top ]

Emile
Some enchanted evening
You may see a stranger
you may see a stranger across a crowded room
and somehow you know, you know even then
That somewhere you'll see her again  and again
Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughing
You may hear her laughing
Across a crowded room
And night after night
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love
When you feel her call you across a crowded room
Then fly to her side, and make her your own
Or all through your life you may dream all alone
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you have found her, never let her go...


Bloody Mary  [ Top ]

Sailors, Seabees and Marines
Bloody Mary is the girl I love,
Bloody Mary is the girl I love,
Bloody Mary is the girl I love-
Now ain't that too damn bad!
Her skin is tender as Dimaggio's glove
Her skin is tender as Dimaggio's glove
Her skin is tender as Dimaggio's glove
Now ain't that too damn bad!
Bloody Mary's chewing betel nuts,
Bloody Mary's chewing betel nuts,
Bloody Mary's chewing betel nuts-
And she don't use Pepsodent.
Now ain't that too damn bad!


There Is Nothing Like a Dame  [ Top ]

Sailors, Seabees and Marines
We got sunlight on the sand, we got moonlight on the sea
We got mangos and bananas you can pick right off a tree
We got volleyball and Ping-Pong and a lot of dandy games
What ain't we got? We ain't got dames
We get packages from home, we get movies, we get shows
We get speeches from our skipper and advice from Tokyo Rose
We get letters doused with perfume we get dizzy from the smell
What don't we get? You know damn well!
We have nothing to put on a clean white suit for
What we need is what there ain't no substitute for...
There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
We feel restless, we feel blue, we feel lonely and in grief
We feel every kind of feeling, but the feeling of relief
We feel hungry as the wolf felt when he met Red Riding-Hood
What don't we feel? We don't feel good!
Lots of things in life are beautiful, but brother
There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever
In anyway shape or form like any other
There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
Nothing else was built the same, nothing in the world
As the soft and wavy frame like the silhouette of a dame
There is absolutely nothing like a frame of a dame
So suppose that dame ain't bright or completely free from flaws
Or as faithful as the bird dog or as kind as Santa Claus
It's a waste of time to worry over things that they have not
We're thankful for the things they got
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
There are no books like a dame
And nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothing thinks like a dame
Nothing acts like a dame or attracts like a dame
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by putting him near 
A girly womanly female feminine dame


Bali Ha'i  [ Top ]

Bloody Mary
Most people live on a lonely island
Lost in the middle of a foggy sea
Most people long for another island
One where they know they would like to be
Bali Ha'i may call you, any night, any day
In your heart, you'll hear it call you, come away...Come away
Bali Ha'i will whisper on the wind of the sea
Here am I your special island
Come to me...Come to me...
Your own special hopes, your own special dreams
Bloom on the hillside and shine in the streams
If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea
Here am I your special island
Come to me...Come to me...
Bali Ha'i...Bali Ha'i...Bali Ha'i
Someday you'll see me floating in the sunshine
My head sticking out from a low-lying cloud
You hear me call you, singing through the sunshine
Sweet and clear as can be,
Come to me...Here am I...Come to me...
If you try, you'll find me,
 Where the sky meets the sea,
Here am I your special island
Come to me...Come to me...
Bali Ha'i...Bali Ha'i...Bali Ha'i...


I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair  [ Top ]

Nellie and Nurses
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms
And send him on his way
Don't try to patch it up (Tear it up, tear it up!)
Wash him out, dry him out (Push him out, fly him out)
Cancel him and let him go (Yeah, sister!)
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way
If a man don't understand you,
If you fly on separate beams
Waste no time, make a change,
Ride that man right off your range
Drop him out of the roll call and drum him out of your dreams
Oho! If you laugh that different comics
If you root for different teams
(Waste no time, weep no more,
show him what the door is for
Drop him out of the road hall and run him out of your dreams
You can't light a fire when the wood's all wet (No!)
You can't make a butterfly strong (Hum Hum!)
You can't fix an egg when it ain't quite good
(and you can't fix a man when he's wrong)
You can't put back a petal when it falls from a flower
Or sweeten up a fellow when he starts turning sour
(Oh no! Oh no!)
(If his eyes have drawn and shifted)
When you look for glance and glimpse
Waste no time, make a switch,
Drop him in the nearest ditch
Drop him out of the roll call and drum him out of your dreams
(Oho! Oho!)
I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way
(I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
I'm went and wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way)


A Wonderful Guy  [ Top ]

Nellie and Nurses
I expect everyone of my crowd to make fun
Of my proud protestations of faith in romance
And they'll say I'm naive as a babe to believe
Every fable I hear from a person in pants
Fearlessly I'll face them and argue their doubts away
Loudly I'll sing about flowers in spring
Flatly I'll stand on my little flat feet and say
Love is a grand and a beautiful thing
I'm not ashamed to reveal the world famous feeling I feel
I'm as corny as Kansas in August, I'm as normal as blueberry pie
No more a smart little girl with no heart
I have found me a wonderful guy
I am in a conventional dither
With a conventional star in my eye
And you will note there's a lump in my throat
When I speak of that wonderful guy
I'm as trite and as gay as a daisy in May
A cliche coming through
I'm romantic and bright as a moon at the night
Pouring light on the dune
I'm as corny as Kansas in August,
High as a flag on the Fourth of July
If you'll excuse an expression I use
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love I'm in love with a wonderful guy!
I'm as trite and as gay as a daisy in May
A cliche coming true
I'm bromidic and bright as a moon at the night
Pouring light on the dune
I'm as corny as Kansas in August,
High as a flag on the fourth of July
If you'll excuse an expression I use
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a wonderful guy!


Younger Than Springtime  [ Top ]

Cable
I touch your hands and my heart goes strong
Like a pair of birds that burst with song
My eyes look down at your lovely face
and I hold a world in my embrace
Younger than springtime, are you
Softer than starlight, are you
Warmer than winds of June, are the gentle lips you gave me
Gayer than laughter, are you
Sweeter than music, are you
Angel and lover, Heaven and Earth, are you to me
And when your youth and joy invade my arms
And fill my heart as now they do
Then younger than springtime, am I
Gayer than laughter, am I
Angel and lover, Heaven and Earth, am I with you...
And when your youth and joy invade my arms
And fill my heart as now they do
Then younger than springtime, am I
Gayer than laughter, am I
Angel and lover, Heaven and Earth, am I with you...


Happy Talk  [ Top ]

Bloody Mary
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?
Talk about the moon floating in the sky
Looking at a lily on the lake
Talk about a bird learning how to fly
Making all the music he can make!
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
Talk about the sparrow looking like a toy
Picking through the broaches of a tree
Talk about the girl, talk about the boy
Counting all the ripples on the sea
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
Talk about the boy saying to the girl
Golly, baby, I'm a lucky cuss
Talk about the girl saying to the boy
You an' me is lucky to be us
Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
How you come not have a dream come true?
If you don't talk happy, and you never have dream
Then you'll never have a dream come true!
It's good idea, you like? Ah ah ah!


Honey Bun  [ Top ]

Nellie
My doll is as dainty as a sparrow
Her figure is something to applaud
Where she's narrow she's as narrow an arrow
And she's broad where a broad should be broad
A hundred and one pounds of fun
That's my little honey bun
Get a load of honey bun tonight
I'm speaking of my sweetie pie
Only sixty inches high
Every inch is packed with dynamite
Her hair is blond and curly
Her curls are hurly-burly
Her lips are pips, I call her hips twirly and whirly
She's my baby, I'm her pap
I'm her booby, she's my crap
I am caught and I don't wanna run,
'Cause I'm having so much fun with honey bun
I am caught and I don't wanna run,
'Cause I'm having so much fun with honey bun
Believe me sonny!
She a cookie who can cook you 'till you're done
Ain't being funny!
Sonny, put your money on my honey bun!


You've Got To Be Carefully Taught  [ Top ]

Cable
You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from ear to ear
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught


This Nearly Was Mine  [ Top ]

Emile
One dream in my heart
One love to be living for
One love to be living for
This nearly was mine
One girl for my dream
One party in paradise
This promise of paradise
This nearly was mine
Close to my heart she came
Only to fly away
Only to fly as day flies from moonlight
Now, now I'm alone
Still a-dreaming of paradise
Still saying that paradise once nearly was mine
I'll keep remembering kisses
From lips I've never owned
And all that lovely adventures
That we have never known
One dream in my heart
One love to be living for
One love to be living for
This nearly was mine
Close to my heart she came
Only to fly away
Only to fly as day flies from moonlight
Now, now I'm alone
Still a-dreaming of paradise
Still saying that paradise once nearly was mine!


Finale  [ Top ]

Ngana and girls
Dites-moi
Porquoi
La vie est belle-
Dies-moi
Porquoi

Emile
La vie est gai!
Dites-moi
Porquoi,
Chere Mad'moiselle,
Est-ce que
Parce que
Vou m'aimez?

Nellie
Born on the opposite sides of the sea
We are as different as people can be

Emile
It's true!

Nellie
and yet you want to marry me

Emile
I do!

Nellie
I've known a few short weeks and yet
Somehow you made my heart forget
All other men I have ever met but you, but you

Emile
Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love
When you feel her call you across a crowded room
And fly to her side, and make her your own
For all through your life you may dream all alone

Nellie
Once you have found her, never let her go

Emile
Once you have found her, never let her go...

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