Sweet Charity movie - Charity's Soliloquy lyrics

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Song by Gwen Verdon<br /><br>

Charity:<br>

Can I remember how this song and dance began?<br>

Yes, I can and damn right I can!<br>

It began, well, anyway you see there was this man<br>

Who stopped and asked me if I knew which way<br>

Was Lexington Avenue.<br>

He said I'm gonna Bloomingdale's.<br>

I said I'm gonna Bloomingdale's.<br>

So we hoofed it over the Bloomingdale's,<br>

He wanted to buy some jockey shorts...<br>

Then he said: " miss, would you like a cup of tea<br>

Or maybe some seven-up?"<br>

I left the tea picked up the tab for the jockey's shorts<br>

And the taxicab<br>

He dropped me off and I burnt <br>

Boy, let that be a lesson to ya<br>

Lower the poem girl, lower the poem<br>

But what can you do when he knocks on your door<br>

Cause they locked him out of his furnished room <br>

So...he moves in!<br>

He moves in with his jockeys shorts and a paper bag<br>

Nothing else!<br>

He needs toothpaste and a tooth brush<br>

And pajama tops <br>

He needs razor blades , a razor and a comb,<br>

Several!<br>

He needs sistering and brothering and fathering and mothering<br>

He needs a hat to hang up in my flat and call it home.<br>

In no time at all<br>

I find we're very much in love<br>

And I'm blushing like a sentimental slob.<br>

And he's kissing me and hugging me <br>

And all the time he's bugging me to <br>

Go out and try to find myself a better paying job.<br>

Comes July, it's ninety-eight degrees. <br>

He wants a coat, he wants a fur line coat<br>

(???)<br>

While I really didn't begrudge it<br>

When I figured out my budget for that coat <br>

I had to dance with something like<br>

Eleven hundred jerks<br>

Now comes February, ten degrees... <br>

<br>

I need a coat<br>

Need a coat to warm his puddle<br>

That I bought!<br>

So he gives me his old sweater ,<br>

A muffler and a stretcher <br>

That I give to him, ha ha ha!<br>

The bronchial pneumonia that I caught.<br>

Then I give him pocket money,<br>

Poker money, smoking money, skating money<br>

Poling money, movie money, haircut money,<br>

Shoeshine money, <br>

Money for a bill from Louis' Bar <br>

Money for a bill from Maxi's Bar <br>

Money for a bill from Charlie's Bar <br>

But will he ask for subway money?<br>

Now he wants some subway money<br>

As he turns out<br>

The bum wants to go to Florida!<br>

Come on down<br>

Now hear this and get this<br>

Hold this and Amen <br>

This big fat heart ain't gonna be joined apart <br>

Ever, ever, ever again!<br>

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