Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, artist - Stephen Sondheim. Date of issue: 30.11.2021
Song language: English
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid |
| Maids like me. |
| I’m neat |
| I like maids. |
| They’re neat |
| Something no household should be without |
| (sung) |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a working girl |
| Everybody ought to have a lurking girl |
| To putter around the house |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a menial |
| Consistantly congenial |
| And quieter than a mouse |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious |
| Tidying up the dishes |
| Neat as a pin |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful |
| Sweeping out |
| Sleeping in |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Someone who you hire when you’re short of help |
| To offer you the sort of help |
| You never get from a spouse |
| Fluttering up the stairway |
| Shuttering up the windows |
| Cluttering up the bedroom |
| Buttering up the master |
| Puttering all around the house! |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious |
| Tidying up the dishes |
| Neat as a pin |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful |
| Sweeping out |
| Sleeping in |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Someone who in fetching you your slipper will |
| Be winsome as a whippoorwill |
| And graceful as a grouse |
| Skittering down the hallway |
| Flittering through the parlor |
| Tittering in the pantry |
| Littering up the bedroom |
| Twittering all around the house! |
| A maid? |
| A maid |
| A maid |
| A maid! |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Everybody ought to have a serving-girl |
| A loyal and unswerving girl |
| Whose quieter than a mouse |
| Oh, oh, think of her at the dustbin |
| 'Specially when she’s just been |
| Traipsing about |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful |
| Living in |
| Giving out |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Daintily collecting bits of paper n' strings |
| Appealing in her apron strings |
| And graceful as a grouse |
| Pattering through the attic |
| Chattering in the cellar |
| Clattering in the kitchen |
| Flattering in the bedroom |
| Puttering all around the house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |
| A maid? |
| A maid |
| A maid |
| A maid! |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Someone who’s efficient and reliable |
| Obedient and pliable |
| And quieter than a mouse! |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be so nimble |
| Fiddling with her thimble |
| Mending her gown |
| Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful |
| Cleaning up |
| Leaning down |
| Everybody ought to have a maid |
| Someone who’ll be busy as a bumblebee |
| And even if you grumble, be |
| As graceful as a grouse |
| Wriggling in the anteroom |
| Jiggling in the dining room |
| Giggling in the living room |
| Wiggling in the other rooms |
| Puttering all around the house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |
| The house! |