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Adelaide’s Lament Lyrics by Kim Criswell

Guys and Dolls: First Complete Recording

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[ADELAIDE, spoken]
\nIt says here
\n
\n[ADELAIDE]
\n"The average unmarried female
\nBasically insecure
\nDue to some long frustration, may react
\nWith psychosomatic symptoms
\nDifficult to endure
\nAffecting the upper respiratory tract"
\n
\nIn other words, just from waiting around
\nFor that plain little band of gold
\nA person can develop a cold
\n
\nYou can spray her wherever you figure
\nThe streptococci lurk
\nYou can give her a shot for whatever's she's got
\nBut it just won't work
\nIf she's tired of getting the fish-eye
\nFrom thе hotel clerk
\nA person can dеvelop a cold
\n
\n[ADELAIDE, spoken]
\nIt says here
\n
\n[ADELAIDE]
\n"The female remaining single
\nJust in the legal sense
\nShows a neurotic tendency
\nSee note"
\n
\n[ADELAIDE, spoken]
\nHuh?
\nOh, note
\n
\n[ADELAIDE]
\n"Chronic, organic syndromes
\nToxic or hypertense
\nInvolving the eye, the ear and the nose and throat"
\n
\nIn other words, just from worrying whether
\nThe wedding is on or off
\nA person can develop a cough
\n
\nYou can feed her all day with the vitamin A
\nAnd the Bromo Fizz
\nBut the medicine never gets anywhere near
\nWhere the trouble is
\nIf she's getting a kind of a name for herself
\nAnd the name ain't his
\nA person can develop a cough
\n
\nAnd furthermore
\nJust from stalling and stalling
\nAnd stalling the wedding trip
\nA person can develop la grippe
\n
\nWhen they get on the train for Niagara
\nAnd she can hear church bells chime
\nThe compartment is air-conditioned
\nAnd the mood sublime
\nThen they get off at Saratoga
\nFor the fourteenth time
\nA person can develop la grippe
\n
\nLa grippe
\nLa postnasal drip
\nWith the wheezes and the sneezes
\nAnd a sinus that's really a pip
\nFrom a lack of community property
\nAnd a feeling she's getting too old
\nA person can develop a bad, bad cold!
\n
\n[ADELAIDE, spoken]
\nAchoo!\n\n
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Kim Criswell

Kim Criswell

About “Adelaide’s Lament” by Kim Criswell

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