Follies movie - WAITING FOR THE GIRLS UPSTAIRS lyrics
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YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Hey, up there...<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
Way up there...<br>
BUDDY and YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Whaddaya say, up there?<br>
(Ben. Sally and Phyllis join Buddy.)<br>
BUDDY:<br>
God, the four of us together back here.<br>
Hey. up there!<br>
Way up there!<br>
Whaddaya say, up there?<br>
<br>
I see it all. It's like a movie in my head that play and plays. <br>
It isn't just the bad things I remember It's the whole show.<br>
<br>
Waiting around for the girls upstairs:<br>
After the curtain came down.<br>
Money In my pocket to spend.<br>
"Honey, could you maybe get a friend for my friend!"<br>
BEN:<br>
Hearing the sound of the girls above<br>
Dressing to go on the town.<br>
BUDDY:<br>
Clicking heels on steel and cement,<br>
BEN:<br>
Picking up the giggles floating down through the vent,<br>
BOTH:<br>
Goddamnedest hours that I ever spent<br>
Were waiting for the girls<br>
Upstairs<br>
BUDDY:<br>
Hey, up there!<br>
BEN:<br>
Way up there! .<br>
BOTH:<br>
Whaddaya say, up there!<br>
BEN:<br>
That's where the keys hung and<br>
That's where you picked up your mail.<br>
BUDDY:<br>
I remember:<br>
Me and Ben.<br>
Me and Ben.<br>
We'd come around at ten.<br>
Me and Ben.<br>
And hang around the wings<br>
Watching things<br>
With what-the-hell-was-his-name.<br>
You know, the old guy?<br>
Max! I remember...<br>
Anyway,<br>
There we'd stay<br>
Until the curtain fell.<br>
And when the curtain tell.<br>
Then all hell broke:<br>
Girls on the run<br>
And scenery flying,<br>
Doors slamming left and right<br>
BEN:<br>
Girls in their un-<br>
Dies, blushing but trying<br>
Not to duck out of sight.<br>
BOTH:<br>
Girls by the hun-<br>
Dreds waving and crying.<br>
"See you tomorrow night!"<br>
Girls looking frazzled and girls looking great,<br>
Girls in a frenzy to get to a date,<br>
Girls like a madhouse and two of them late...<br>
And who had to wait?<br>
And wait...<br>
And wait...<br>
And<br>
wait...<br>
PHYLLIS:<br>
Waiting around for the boys downstairs,<br>
Stalling as long as we dare.<br>
Which dress from my wardrobe of two?<br>
(One of them was borrowed and the other was blue.)<br>
SALLY:<br>
Holding our ground for the boys below,<br>
Fussing around with our hair<br>
PHYLLIS:<br>
Giggling, wriggling out of our tights,<br>
SALLY:<br>
Chattering and clattering down all of those flights-<br>
BOTH:<br>
God, I'd forgotten there ever were nights<br>
Of waiting for the boys<br>
Downstairs.<br>
BUDDY:<br>
You up there!<br>
SALLY:<br>
Down in a minute!<br>
BEN:<br>
You two up there!<br>
PHYLLIS:<br>
Just keep your shirts on!<br>
BEN and BUDDY:<br>
Aren't you through up there?<br>
SALLY and PHYLLIS:<br>
Heard you the first time!<br>
(Their younger counterparts appear)<br>
BEN, YOUNG BEN,<br>
BUDDY, YOUNG BUDDY: SALLY, YOUNG SALLY,<br>
Look, are you coming or PHYLLIS, YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Aren't you coming 'cause Coming. We're coming, will<br>
Look, if we're going, we You hold your horses, we're<br>
Gotta get going 'cause Coming. We're ready, be <br>
Look, they won't hold us There in a jiffy, we're<br>
A table at ringside all Coming. We're coming. All <br>
Night! Right!<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
Hi...<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
Girls...<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Ben...<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Sally...<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
Boy, we're beat.<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
You look neat.<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
We saw you in the wings.<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
How are things?<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Did someone pass you in?<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Slipped a fin<br>
To what-the-hell-is-his-name,<br>
You know, the doorman.<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Al?<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
No.<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
Big?<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
Fat.<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Young!<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Bald.<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
Harry.<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
Yeah.<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
Okey-doaks.<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Come on, folks.<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
And where we gonna go?<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
A little joint I know-<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
What?<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
Great new show there.<br>
YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Hey, I thought you said tonight'd be Tony's--<br>
YOUNG BUDDY:<br>
This joint is just as grand.<br>
YOUNG SALLY:<br>
We girls got dressed for dancing at Tony's--<br>
YOUNG BEN:<br>
This joint is in demand.<br>
YOUNG SALLY and YOUNG PHYLLIS:<br>
Ta-ta, goodbye, you'll find us at Tony's--<br>
YOUNG BUDDY and YOUNG BEN:<br>
Wait till you hear the band!<br>
YOUNG SALLY and YOUNG PHYLLIS: YOUNG BUDDY and YOUNG BEN<br>
You told us Tony's, <br>
That we'd go to Tony's. I told you Tony's?<br>
ALL GIRLS:<br>
Then Ben mentioned Tony's. I never said Tony's<br>
ALL MEN:<br>
Well, someone said Tony's. When's Ben mentioned Tony's?<br>
There's dancing at Tony's-- It's ritzy at Tony's--<br>
All right, then, we'll go! All right, then, we'll go!<br>
(The young counterparts leave.)<br>
BUDDY:<br>
Waiting around for the girls upstairs,<br>
Weren't we chuckleheads then?<br>
BEN:<br>
Very young and very old hat--<br>
Everybody has to go through stages like that.<br>
SALLY, PHYLLIS, BEN and BUDDY:<br>
Waiting around for the girls upstairs--<br>
Thank you but never again.<br>
Life was fun but oh, so intense<br>
Everything was possible and nothing made sense<br>
Back there when one of the major events<br>
Was waiting for the girls,<br>
Waiting for the girls.<br>
Waiting for the girls.<br>
Waiting for the girls,<br>
Waiting for the girls<br>
Upstairs.<br>
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