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Pickering: |
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Higgins,forgive the bluntness, |
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but if I am to be in this business, |
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I shall feel responsible for the girl. |
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Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? |
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Higgins: |
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? |
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Well,I haven't. |
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I find the moment I let a woman make friends with me, |
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she becomes jealous,exacting,suspicious and a damned nuisance. |
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And I find the moment that I make friends with a woman, |
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I become selfish and tyrannical. |
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So here I am,a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so. |
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Well after all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man, |
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Who desires nothing more than an ordinary chance, |
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to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants... |
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An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, |
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Who likes to live his life, free of strife, |
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doing whatever he thinks is best, for him. |
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Well... just an ordinary man... |
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BUT, Let a woman in your life |
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and your serenity is through, |
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she'll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome, |
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and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you... |
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Let a woman in your life, |
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and you're up against a wall, |
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make a plan and you will find, |
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that she has something else in mind, |
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and so rather than do either you do something else that neither likes at all . |
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You want to talk of Keats and Milton, |
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she only wants to talk of love, |
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You go to see a play or ballet, |
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and spend it searching for her glove. |
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Let a woman in your life |
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and you invite eternal strife, |
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Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands... |
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I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling |
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than to ever let a woman in my life. |
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I'm a very gentle man, |
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even tempered and good natured who you never hear complain, |
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Who has the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein, |
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A patient man am I, down to my fingertips, |
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the sort who never could, ever would, |
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let an insulting remark escape his lips. |
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A very gentle man... |
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But, Let a woman in your life, |
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and patience hasn't got a chance, |
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she will beg you for advice, your reply will be concise, |
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and she will listen very nicely, and then go out |
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and do exactly what she wants! |
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You are a man of grace and polish, |
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who never spoke above a hush, |
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all at once you're using language |
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that would make a sailor blush. |
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Let a woman in your life, |
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and you're plunging in a knife, |
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Let the others of my sex, tie the knot around their necks, |
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I prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition |
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than to ever let a woman in my life. |
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I'm a quiet living man, |
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who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room, |
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who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb, |
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A pensive man am I, of philosophical joys, |
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who likes to meditate, contemplate, |
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far for humanities mad inhuman noise, |
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A quiet living man.... |
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But, let a woman in your life, |
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and your sabbatical is through, |
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in a line that never ends comes an army of her friends, |
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come to jabber and to chatter and to tell her what the matter is with YOU! |
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She'll have a booming boisterous family, |
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who will descend on you en mass. |
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She'll have a large wagnarian mother, |
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with a voice that shatters glass. |
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Let a woman in your life, |
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Let a woman in your life...@#$%^& |
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I shall never let a woman in my life. |
