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Tabu / Taking Care of The Ladies Lyrics by Original Broadway Cast of Wild Party (LaChiusa)

The Wild Party (Original Broadway Recording)

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[OSCAR]
Tabu!
When you’re forbidden your desire
Tabu!
You yearn to play with fire?
[QUEENIE, spoken]
So Mister Black, show me
[BLACK, spoken]
Show you what?
[QUEENIE, spoken]
The game, the hustle. Or is this it?
[BLACK, spoken]
Believe me, if Black was running the mooch, you’d be in his arms begging him to never leave you
[QUEENIE, spoken]
So go on, mooch me
Black
Right here? Right now?
[QUEENIE, spoken]
Umhm
[BLACK, spoken]
You sure you’re ready? Cause if you melt or swoon or-
[QUEENIE, spoken]
The mooch?
[BLACK, sung]
Black likes the way that you look tonight
Elegant, sleek and cool
Black likes the way that you
Ahake the moves:
So beautiful but watch it--
A panther’s trapped inside:
Tell me- who rolls your cigarettes
And keeps you satisfied
Taking care of the ladies
I take care of myself
Black’s glad to send you
Where you wanna go
And baby it’s your party
What more ya wanna know?
What more ya wanna know?
What more?
[QUEENIE, spoken]
I can see how that might work on some women-desperate, lonely
[BLACK, spoken]
But not you?
[QUEENIE, spoken]
Nope
[BLACK, spoken]
Okay, here's another mooch: It’s Sunday night and this woman I know, let’s call her Kate, an acquaintance, is invited to this party and she drags me along
[QUEENIE, spoken]
Drags you?
[BLACK, spoken]
And the second I walk in I see this other woman; blonde, beautiful- and the way she holds her cigarette, the way her hand folds on her hips...
[BLACK, sung]
Black likes the way that
She burns tonight
Ginger and smoke and sex
Black likes the way that she likes him back:
Everything about her says
Danger: Run away
Taking care of the ladies
I take care of myself
Everything about you says ‘Danger - stay away’
But danger and a woman
More i gotta say
What more
What more
For a guy, I talk a lot
We oughta just listen to the music
We oughta just dance...
[OSCAR]
Tabu!
Forbidden fruit upon the vine
Tabu!
I’ll never rest until you’re mine
[SALLY, vocalizing]
Dreamy, slow
[OSCAR]
It’s whatcha wanna do but whatchaknowya shouldn’t do?
Like what i wanna do with you:
You say you wanna do it, too?
That’s tabu!
[QUEENIE]
Our first dance... now that's a mooch
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Original Broadway Cast of Wild Party (LaChiusa)

Original Broadway Cast of Wild Party (LaChiusa)

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