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Country House Lyrics by Julie Andrews, Stephen Collins (Actor)

Sondheim: Putting It Together (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)

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[THE WIFE]
How about a country house?
[THE HUSBAND]
Fine
[THE WIFE]
You wanna get a country house?
[THE HUSBAND]
If you like
[THE WIFE]
What would you like?
[THE HUSBAND]
No, a country house would be fine
[THE WIFE]
Would you like one?
[THE HUSBAND]
Sure, if that would make you happy
[THE WIFE, spoken]
Swell
[THE HUSBAND]
Whatever makes you happy—
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
Yes, well... Why not?
[THE HUSBAND]
We'll get a country house
What kind?
[THE WIFE]
Kind?
[THE HUSBAND]
Whatever kind you have in mind
[THE WIFE]
You choose
[THE HUSBAND]
Look, it's your idea, a country house—
[THE WIFE]
Oh, forget it
[THE HUSBAND]
—And a good one
[THE WIFE]
Oh
[THE HUSBAND]
If that's what makes you happy
[THE WIFE]
Happy
[THE HUSBAND]
Comparatively happy
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
All right, where?
[THE HUSBAND]
I don't care
[THE WIFE]
That's not fair
[THE HUSBAND]
Well, then
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
Somewhere by the sea— (Somewhere in the woods—)
[THE HUSBAND]
By the sea, then
[THE WIFE]
Don't agree just to agree
[THE HUSBAND]
Look, it's all the same to me
[THE WIFE]
Yes, I know
[THE HUSBAND]
Meaning—?
[THE WIFE]
Oh, let it go
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
Look, as long as we're together...
[THE HUSBAND]
How about a trip abroad?
[THE WIFE]
Let's
[THE HUSBAND]
We haven't had a trip abroad for years
[THE WIFE]
Not for ages
[THE HUSBAND]
Take a ship abroad, get away—
[THE WIFE]
Just the two of us
[THE HUSBAND]
A chance to be together
[THE WIFE]
That's the point
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
As long as it's together
[THE WIFE]
It's what we need, a trip abroad
[THE HUSBAND]
Where to?
[THE WIFE]
To?
[THE HUSBAND]
To London, Paris—?
[THE WIFE]
Somewhere new
[THE HUSBAND]
Up to you
[THE WIFE]
Around the world
[THE HUSBAND]
No, really
[THE WIFE]
'Round the world won't do?
[THE HUSBAND]
Where?
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
Let's not get into that one again (If that would make you happy—)
[THE HUSBAND]
No, really. Fine
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
"If that would make me happy" (If that would make you happy)
[THE WIFE]
It just might
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
All right, when?
[THE WIFE]
Name the day
[THE HUSBAND]
Just not May
[THE WIFE]
Why?
[THE HUSBAND]
The meeting in Atlanta
[THE WIFE]
Ah
[THE HUSBAND]
June? July?
[THE WIFE]
No, that's my benefit for ANTA
[THE HUSBAND, spoken]
So—?
[THE WIFE, spoken]
So—?
[THE HUSBAND]
It's enough to lend your name
[THE WIFE]
And you couldn't do the same?
[THE HUSBAND]
It's my board—
[THE WIFE]
Oh, dear Lord—
[THE HUSBAND]
—And they can't be ignored
[THE WIFE]
No, and you can't afford
To be bored with your Board
Can you?
[THE HUSBAND, spoken]
Well, so much for travel
[THE WIFE]
How about a friendly shrink?
[THE HUSBAND]
What?
[THE WIFE]
You want to see a friendly shrink?
[THE HUSBAND]
Why me?
[THE WIFE]
Us
[THE HUSBAND]
I think I'd rather have another drink—
[THE WIFE]
Okay, your turn
[THE HUSBAND]
But if that would make you happy...
[THE WIFE]
What?
[THE HUSBAND]
Joke:
If a shrink could make you happy
[THE WIFE, spoken]
Oh, nice joke
[THE WIFE]
How about a St. Bernard?
[THE HUSBAND]
What?
[THE WIFE]
We could adopt a St. Bernard
[THE HUSBAND]
In New York?
Are you serious, a St. Bernard?
[THE WIFE]
Or a child
[THE HUSBAND, spoken]
Ah, the child
[THE WIFE & THE HUSBAND]
All right, why?
[THE WIFE]
Why not?
[THE HUSBAND]
Why now?
[THE WIFE]
We need something we can share
[THE HUSBAND]
We need air
[THE WIFE]
We need something—
[THE HUSBAND]
We need something if it's real
[THE WIFE]
Maybe saying what we feel?
[THE HUSBAND]
It's a deal
[THE WIFE]
For a change
[THE HUSBAND]
You go first
[THE WIFE]
After you
[THE HUSBAND]
I've got nothing to conceal
So there's nothing to reveal
[THE WIFE, spoken]
Oh, well, that's a great big weight off my mind
[THE HUSBAND]
I could take a few days off
[THE WIFE]
Maybe we could get a suite at the Waldorf...
[THE HUSBAND, spoken]
Mm...
[THE WIFE]
Just the two of us
Second honeymoon...
[THE HUSBAND]
Should be better than the first
[THE WIFE]
There are times when you can be a louse
[THE HUSBAND]
The hell, let's get a house
Credits
Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

Stephen Collins (Actor)

Stephen Collins (Actor)

About “Country House” by Julie Andrews

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