Follies movie

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>

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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>

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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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