Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Adelaide's Lament, artist - Barbra Streisand. Date of issue: 31.12.1984
Song language: English
Adelaide's Lament |
| ADELAIDE |
| It says here: |
| The average unmarried female |
| Basically insecure |
| Due to some long frustration may react |
| With psychosomatic symptoms |
| Difficult to endure |
| Affecting the upper respiratory tract |
| In other words |
| Just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold |
| A person can develop a cold |
| You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk |
| You can give her a shot for whatever’s she’s got, but it just won’t work |
| If she’s tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk |
| A person can develop a cold |
| It says here: |
| The female remaining single |
| Just in the legal sense |
| Shows a neurotic tendency, see note |
| Chronic organic symptoms |
| Toxic or hypertense |
| Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat |
| In other words |
| Just from worrying if the wedding is on or off |
| A person can develop a cough |
| You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the Bromo Fizz |
| But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is If she’s getting a kind of name for herself and the name ain’t his |
| A person can develop a cough |
| And furthermore |
| Just from stalling, and stalling, and stalling the wedding trip |
| A person can develop la grippe |
| When they get on the train for Niagara |
| And she can hear church bells chime |
| The compartment is air conditioned |
| And the mood sublime |
| Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time! |
| A person can develop la grippe, la grippe |
| La post nasal drip |
| With the wheezes |
| And the sneezes |
| And a sinus that’s really a pip! |
| From a lack of community property |
| And a feeling she’s getting too old |
| A person can develop a bad, bad cold! |