Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Charity's Soliloquy , by - Gwen Verdon. Release date: 12.09.2019
Song language: English
Charity's Soliloquy |
| Charity: |
| Can I remember how this song and dance began? |
| Yes, I can and damn right I can! |
| It began, well, anyway you see there was this man |
| Who stopped and asked me if I knew which way |
| Was Lexington Avenue. |
| He said I’m gonna Bloomingdale’s. |
| I said I’m gonna Bloomingdale’s. |
| So we hoofed it over the Bloomingdale’s, |
| He wanted to buy some jockey shorts… |
| Then he said: «miss, would you like a cup of tea |
| Or maybe some seven-up?» |
| I left the tea picked up the tab for the jockey’s shorts |
| And the taxicab |
| He dropped me off and I burnt |
| Boy, let that be a lesson to ya Lower the poem girl, lower the poem |
| But what can you do when he knocks on your door |
| Cause they locked him out of his furnished room |
| So… he moves in! |
| He moves in with his jockeys shorts and a paper bag |
| Nothing else! |
| He needs toothpaste and a tooth brush |
| And pajama tops |
| He needs razor blades, a razor and a comb, |
| Several! |
| He needs sistering and brothering and fathering and mothering |
| He needs a hat to hang up in my flat and call it home. |
| In no time at all |
| I find we’re very much in love |
| And I’m blushing like a sentimental slob. |
| And he’s kissing me and hugging me And all the time he’s bugging me to Go out and try to find myself a better paying job. |
| Comes July, it’s ninety-eight degrees. |
| He wants a coat, he wants a fur line coat |
| While I really didn’t begrudge it When I figured out my budget for that coat |
| I had to dance with something like |
| Eleven hundred jerks |
| Now comes February, ten degrees… |
| I need a coat |
| Need a coat to warm his puddle |
| That I bought! |
| So he gives me his old sweater, |
| A muffler and a stretcher |
| That I give to him, ha ha ha! |
| The bronchial pneumonia that I caught. |
| Then I give him pocket money, |
| Poker money, smoking money, skating money |
| Poling money, movie money, haircut money, |
| Shoeshine money, |
| Money for a bill from Louis’Bar |
| Money for a bill from Maxi’s Bar |
| Money for a bill from Charlie’s Bar |
| But will he ask for subway money? |
| Now he wants some subway money |
| As he turns out |
| The bum wants to go to Florida! |
| Come on down |
| Now hear this and get this |
| Hold this and Amen |
| This big fat heart ain’t gonna be joined apart |
| Ever, ever, ever again! |