Broadway production (1948) Kiss Me Kate the musical - Kiss Me Kate Lyrics
FRED: So, kiss me, Kate, thou lovely loon, 'Ere we start on our honeymoon. So kiss me, Kate, darling devil devine, For now thou shall ever be mine.
LILLI: I'll never be thine!
FRED and CHORUS: So, kiss me, Kate, (KATE: NO!) thou lovely loon, (KATE: NO!) 'Ere we start (KATE: NAY!) on our honeymoon. (KATE: AWAY!) So kiss me, Kate, darling devil devine,
LILLI: Kindly drop dead!
FRED: For now thou shall ever be
LILLI: Now I shall never be
MALE CHORUS: Now thou shall ever be
FEMALE CHORUS: Now thou shall never be
FRED/LILLI: Mine/Thine
FRED: Yes mine!
LILLI: Not thine!
FRED: Yes mine!
LILLI: You swine!
FRED: Yes mine!
CHORUS: She called him a swine!
FRED: So kiss me, Kate
LILLI: I'll crack your plate!
FRED: Oh, please don't pout
LILLI: I'll knock you out
FRED: My priceless prise
LILLI: I'll black you eyes!
FRED: Oh, kiss me quick
LILLI: Your rump I'll kick!
FRED/CHORUS: Oh kiss me/him
LILLI: Dounder!
CHORUS: He's not her dish, He's not her dish, oh kiss him!
LILLI: Flouder!
CHORUS: A type of fish, she would not wish, oh kiss him!
LILLI: Dastard!
CHORUS: What's that we heard, what's that we heard, oh kiss him!
LILLI: (Spoken) Bastard!
(CHORUS gasps in shock, short pause)
FRED: Oh, Katie, that's a naughty word, oh kiss me!
CHORUS: Kiss him!
FRED: Kiss me!
FRED/CHORUS: Kiss me!/Kiss him, kiss him, kiss him!
LILLI: Never, never, never!
(LILLI continues singing never joined in by a song bird. MAN 2, shoots the bird)
CHORUS: Kiss him Kate, kiss him, Kiss him Kate, kiss him, Kiss him Kate, kiss him, Kiss him Kate, kiss him, Kiss him Kate, Kate him Kate, Kiss him Kate
Kiss...
LILLI: No!
CHORUS: Him...
LILLI: NO!!!
MAN 1 AND 2 (Spoken) Ahh, kiss him!
CHORUS: Kate!
FRED: Ha! (raises his fist in triumph)
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Kiss Me Kate the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS Another Op'nin', Another Show Why Can't You Behave? Wunderbar So In Love We Open In Venice Tom, Dick Or Harry I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua I Hate Men Were Thine That Special Face Cantiamo D'amore Kiss Me, Kate Too Darn Hot Where Is The Life That Late I Led? Always True To You (In My Fashion) Bianca So In Love (Reprise) Brush Up Your Shakespeare I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple Finale
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