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Poor Baby Lyrics by Original Broadway Cast of Company

Company (Original Broadway Cast)

1970

[SARAH]
Darling—
[HARRY]
Yes?
[SARAH]
Robert—
[HARRY]
What?
[SARAH]
I worry
[HARRY]
Why?
[SARAH]
He's all alone
[HARRY, spoken]
Hmm
[SARAH]
There's no one—
[HARRY]
Where?
[SARAH]
In his life
[HARRY]
Oh
[SARAH]
Robert ought to have a woman
Poor baby, all alone
Evening after evening by the telephone—
We're the only tenderness he's ever known
Poor baby
[JENNY]
David—
[DAVID]
Yes?
[JENNY]
Robert—
[DAVID]
What?
[JENNY]
I worry
[DAVID]
Why?
[JENNY]
It's such a waste
[DAVID, spoken]
Hmm
[JENNY]
There's no one—
[DAVID]
Where?
[JENNY]
In his life
[DAVID]
Oh
[JENNY]
Robert ought to have a woman
Poor baby, sitting there
Staring at the walls and playing solitaire
Making conversation with the empty air—
Poor baby
[Later, as ROBERT takes APRIL to bed]
[SARAH]
Robert...
[JENNY]
Bobby...
[SARAH]
Robert, angel...
[JENNY]
Bobby, honey...
[SARAH]
You know no one
Wants you to be happy
More than I do
No one
But isn't she a little bit, well
[SARAH, JENNY]
You know...? You know
Face it No one
Why her? Wants you to be happy more than I do
Better No one
No one But
[SARAH & JENNY, SUSAN]
Isn't she a little bit, well
You know You know
Face it— No one
[SARAH, SUSAN, JENNY, AMY & JOANNE]
Why these Wants you to be happy Why her?
Meaningless I do Better You know
Relationships No one No one No one
[SARAH, SUSAN & JENNY, AMY & JOANNE]
They can't make you But isn't she a Wants you to be
Happy Little bit, well Happy more than
But you know You know I do
[SARAH, JENNY, AMY & JOANNE, SUSAN]
Better Better No one. But Face it
[WIVES]
Isn't she a little bit, well—
[SARAH]
Dumb?
[AMY]
Tacky?
[SUSAN]
Vulgar?
[JENNY]
Old?
[JOANNE]
Tall?
[SUSAN]
Aggressive?
[AMY]
Neurotic?
[SARAH]
Where is she from?
[JENNY]
And cheap?
[SUSAN]
Peculiar?
[JOANNE]
She's tall enough to be your mother
[AMY]
She seems so dead
[JENNY]
And gross and
[SARAH]
She's very weird
[SUSAN]
Depressing and
[AMY]
And immature?
[JOANNE]
Goliath...
[WIVES]
Poor baby
All alone
Throw a lonely dog a bone
It's still a bone
We're the only tenderness
He's ever known
Poor baby...
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Original Broadway Cast of Company

Original Broadway Cast of Company

About “Poor Baby” by Original Broadway Cast of Company

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