Barbra Streisand - Adelaide's Lament lyrics
[Barbra Streisand - Adelaide's Lament lyrics]
It says here in this book
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract
In other words just from waiting around
For that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold
You can spray her wherever you figure
The streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot
For whatever she's got
But it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish-eye
From the hotel clerk a person
Can develop a cold it says here
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency
(spoken) See notesee note
Note: Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hypertense involving the eye
The ear, the nose and throat in other words
Just from wondering
Whether the wedding is on or off a person
Can develop a cough you can feed her all day
With the Vitamin A and the Bromo Fizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near
Where the trouble is if she's getting a kind
Of name for herself and the name ain't "his"
A person can develop a cough
And further more just from stalling
And stalling and stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop La grippe
When they get on a train for Niag'ra
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga
For the fourteenth time a person
Can develop La grippe
La grippe, La post nasal drip
With the wheezes and the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!
From a lack of community property
And a feeling shes getting too old a person
Can develop a big, bad cold!
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract
In other words just from waiting around
For that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold
You can spray her wherever you figure
The streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot
For whatever she's got
But it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish-eye
From the hotel clerk a person
Can develop a cold it says here
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency
(spoken) See notesee note
Note: Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hypertense involving the eye
The ear, the nose and throat in other words
Just from wondering
Whether the wedding is on or off a person
Can develop a cough you can feed her all day
With the Vitamin A and the Bromo Fizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near
Where the trouble is if she's getting a kind
Of name for herself and the name ain't "his"
A person can develop a cough
And further more just from stalling
And stalling and stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop La grippe
When they get on a train for Niag'ra
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga
For the fourteenth time a person
Can develop La grippe
La grippe, La post nasal drip
With the wheezes and the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!
From a lack of community property
And a feeling shes getting too old a person
Can develop a big, bad cold!