The Music Man - The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me Lyrics

2000 Broadway revival
The Music Man Musical - The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me Lyrics

Harold:
No wide-eyed, eager,
Wholesome innocent Sunday school teacher for me.
That kinda girl spins webs no spider ever--
Listen, boy--
A girl who trades on all that purity
Merely wants to trade my independence for her security.
The only affirmative she will file
Refers to marching down the aisle.
No golden, glorious, gleaming pristine goddess--
No sir!
For no Diana do I play faun.
I can tell you that right now.
I snarl, I hiss: How can ignorance be compared to bliss?
I spark, I fizz for the lady who knows what time it is.
I cheer, I rave for the virtue I'm too late to save
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.
No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby
Not for me.
That kinda child ties knots no sailor ever knew.
I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance.
No dewy young miss
Who keeps resisting all the time she keeps insisting!
No wide-eyed, wholesome innocent female.
No sir.
Why, she's the fisherman, I'm the fish you see?--PLOP!
I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me.
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me.


Other Album Songs: The Music Man Musical Songs with Lyrics


2000 Broadway revival
The Music Man Musical Lyrics


SYNOPSIS
Rock Island
Iowa Stubborn
Ya Got Trouble
Piano Lesson
Goodnight My Someone
76 Trombones
Sincere
The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me
Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little
Goodnight Ladies
Marian The Librarian
My White Knight
Wells Fargo Wagon
It's You
Shipoopi
Lida Rose
Will I Ever Tell You?
Gary, Indiana
Till There Was You