Where Is the Life That Late I Led

Where Is the Life That Late I Led - Howard Keel

When at first aware of masculinity

I began to finger feminine curls

I became the toast of my vicinity

For I always had a multitude of girls

But now that a married man at last am I

How aware of my dear departed past am I

Where is the life that late I led

Where is it now

Totally dead

Where is the fun I used to find

Where has it gone

Gone with the wind

A married life is just a pain

And raising an heir could never compare

With raising a bit of pain

So I repeat what first I said

Where is the life that late I

In dear Milano where are you Momo

Still selling those pictures of the Scriptures in the Duomo

And Carolina where are you Lina

Still peddling your pizza in the streets o' Taormina

And in Firenze where are you Alice

Still there in your pretty itty-bitty Pitti Palace

And sweet Lucretia so young and gay

What scandalous doin's in the ruins of Pompeii

Where is the life that late I led

Where is it now

Totally dead

Where is the fun I used to find

Where has it gone

Gone with the wind

The marriage game is quite all right

Yes during the day it's easy to play

But oh what a bore at night

So I repeat what first I said

Where is the life that late I

Where is Rebecca my Becki-weckio

But still she'd be cruising that amusing Ponte Vecchio

Where is Fedora the wild virago

It's lucky I missed her gangster sister from Chicago

Where is Venetia who loved to chat so

Could still she be drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo

And lovely Lisa where are you Lisa

You gave a new meaning to the leaning tow'r of Pisa

Where is the life that late I led

Where is it now

Totally dead

Where is the fun I used to find

Where has it gone

Gone with the wind

I've oft' been told of nuptial bliss

But what do you do a quarter to two

With only a shrew to kiss

So I repeat what first I said

Where is the life that late I led