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1928 Broadway
This Year of Grace the Musical - Little Women Lyrics
Music and lyrics by Noël Coward.
We're little girls of certain ages
Fresh from London town,
Like an instalment plan of Drage's
We want so much down.
We have discovered years ago
That flesh is often clay,
We're not a new sin
We're on the loose in
Quite the nicest way.
We have renounced domestic cares
For ever and for aye,
We're not so vicious,
Merely ambitious,
If there must be love
Let it be free love.
(Refrain:)
We're little women,
Alluring little women,
Cute but cold fish
Just like goldfish
Looking for a bowl to swim in.
We lead ornamental
But uncreative lives,
We may be little women
But we're not good wives.
VIOLET:
I am just an ingenue
And shall be till I'm eighty-two
At any rude remark my spirit winces,
I've a keen religious sense
But in girlish self-defence
I always have to put my faith in princes.
ALL:
Do not trust them, gentle maiden,
They will kick you in the pants.
RUTH:
I'm not a type that is frequently seen
I wear my hair in a narrow bang,
I have remained at the age of eighteen
Since I left home in a charabanc
Tho' men all pursue me
When they woo me
They construe me as innocent,
But when I hear things suggestively phrased
I'm not unduly amazed.
ALL:
It takes far more than that to wake
Sweet wonder in her eyes.
JANE:
I waste no time on things
That other girls are arch about,
I much prefer to march about alone.
I'm a baby vamp,
I'd take a postage stamp,
I just believe in grabbing
Anything that's offered me.
If Mother Hubbard proffered me - a bone
I should not be upset,
Have the darned thing reset.
ALL:
Much further than the Swanee River
She keeps her old folks at home.
IVY:
I am a girl whose soul with domesticity abounds,
I know a man of six foot three who's worth
A million pounds (woops),
Tho' he is like a brother
I haven't told my mother
He's given me a lovely house and grounds!
ALL:
Be it ever so humbug
There's no place like home.
We're little women,
Alluring little women,
Cute but cold fish,
Just like goldfish
Looking for a bowl to swim in.
Tho' we're very clinging
Our independence thrives
We may be little women
But we're not good wives.
Review: This Year of Grace the Musical Lyrics
This Year of Grace Little Women Lyrics
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