Lady in the Dark movie

Lady in the Dark movie - Saga of Jenny lyrics

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Music: Kurt Weill<br>

Lyrics: Ira Gershwin<br>

Book: Moss Hart<br>

Premiere: Thursday, January 23, 1941<br>

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Jenny made her mind up when she was three<br>

She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree<br>

Christmas Eve she lit the candles, tossed the tapers away<br>

Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas day<br>

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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny<br>

Her equal would be hard to find<br>

She lost one dad and mother, a sister and a brother,<br>

But she would make up her mind<br>

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Jenny made her mind up when she was twelve<br>

That into foreign languages she would delve<br>

But at seventeen to Vassar, it was quite a blow<br>

That in twenty-seven languages she couldn't say no<br>

Poor Jenny, bright as a penny<br>

Her equal would be hard to find<br>

To Jenny I'm beholden, her heart was big and golden<br>

But she would make up her mind<br>

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Jenny made her mind up at twenty-two<br>

To get herself a husband was the thing to do<br>

She got herself all dolled up in her satins and furs<br>

And she got herself a husband--but he wasn't hers<br>

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Poor Jenny, bright as a penny<br>

Her equal would be hard to find<br>

Deserved a bed of roses, but history discloses<br>

That she would make up her mind<br>

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Jenny made her mind up at fifty-one<br>

She would write her memoirs before she was done<br>

The very day her book was published, history relates,<br>

There were wives who shot their husbands in some thirty-three states<br>

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Jenny made her mind up at seventy-five<br>

She would live to be the oldest woman alive<br>

But gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks,<br>

And poor Jenny kicked the bucket at seventy-six<br>

Jenny points a moral with which you cannot quarrel,<br>

Makes a lot of common sense--<br>

Jenny and her saga prove that you're gaga<br>

If you don't keep sitting on the fence<br>

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Jenny and her story point the way to glory<br>

To all man and womankind<br>

Anyone with vision comes to this decision--<br>

Don't make up your mind<br>

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