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How Many Women Lyrics by Judy Kuhn, Philip Casnoff

Chess (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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[FLORENCE]
How many women would drive themselves crazy
By arguing over a game of chess?
Not very many—the way things are going
There'll soon be one less!
[FREDDIE]
Don't believe you, sweetie pie—
[FLORENCE]
Listen, Freddie—I too had ambitions
How did I get waylaid?
How can such a flower
A sensitive soul, a delicate child
Wind up as a nursemaid?
Respectably set for the glittering prizes
Instead of which I landed you—
[FREDDIE]
You'll get your prizes!
I'm ninety percent of the way to the top of the heap
[FLORENCE]
Thanks—ten percent—you got me cheap!
[FREDDIE, spoken]
No, no, Florence—I meant we are ninety percent of the way—
[FLORENCE]
How many women—articulate women
With something to shout about—spend their time
Playing a game in which silence is golden
And speaking a crime?
[FREDDIE]
Maybe if he moved his king...
[FLORENCE]
All of my struggles for qualifications—
My nights with Goethe and Proust
Recklessly abandoned
For you who thinks Chekhov is king to G3
And Joyce my college roommate!
But then when I show you a move you can't fathom
I have to admit it feels great—
[FREDDIE]
Great news for chess fans!
Yeah, that's how he did it—
Yeah, that's how the Communist plays!
[FLORENCE]
Maybe I deserve a raise
Credits
Judy Kuhn

Judy Kuhn

Philip Casnoff

Philip Casnoff

About “How Many Women” by Judy Kuhn

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