Adelaide's Lament 歌詞
Adelaide's Lament (From "Guys and Dolls") - Faith Prince
Written by：Frank Loesser
Look Adelaide
You're getting yourself upset
You and I are gonna be alright
After all we love each other and we're gonna get married
I don't believe you anymore
But it's true Aww you'll feel better tomorrow
C'mon cheer up honey
Let's see that old smile
That's my girl
See ya tomorrow
It says here the average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some looooong frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract
In other words just from waiting around
For that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold
You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever she's got
But it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fisheye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold
It says here the female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neuroooootic tendency see note
Tendency see note
Oh see note
Oh oh here we go
Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye the ear the nose and throat
In other words
Just from worrying whether the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough
You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the Bromo fizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is
If she's getting a kind of a name for herself and
The name ain't his
A person can develop a cough
And furthermore just from stalling and stalling and stalling the wedding triiiip
A person can develop la grippe
When they get on the train for Niagara
And she can hear churchbells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mooooooood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga
For the fourteenth tiiiime
A person can develop la grippe
La grippe la post nasal drip
With the wheezes and the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip
From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting too old
A person can develop a
Biiiig baaaad coooooold