Original Broadway Cast of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Gregory Jbara, John Lithgow - Give Them What They Want lyrics

Left hand, side pocket
Right arm, akimbo and relaxed
Head up, gaze steady now you're ready so you
Stroll in, survey them
Your world, they're all invited guests
Feel out how to play them and remember this:
You're giving them what they want

Za ba zoovee!

Giving them what they want
An adventure all their own

Giving them what they want

Like they're in a movie
And never forget that what they want is
Half smile

Demi sourire!

David Niven

Put on a

Bold countenance, both tragic and amused

High style

Ah, comme il faut!

That's a given

And don't forget

All I'm doing is, I'm

Giving them what they want

Doo ba zootie!

Specifically what they want

All tied up with a bow for as the poet said

Keats!

"Truth is beauty"

And that is all you really need to know

Your Grace!

This Lady is Lenore
She feels her life's become a bore
You see her husband's ninety-four this May
Buy hey shes down for fifty mil
In an addendum to his will
And wherever there's a will there is a way!
I always say

Give them what they want

Smooth and breezy

Exactly what they want

An escape from the ennui

Give them what they want

Nothing cheap or cheesy

Remember what they really want is

Exhibit B:

Sophia, loaded down with lira
Spied a grey hair in the mirror
So she made a resolution to cut loose

Her family fortune is obscene
Her dad invented Orangina
Now sit back and watch
While I turn up the juice

Top of the illusion
For fantasy, the man to see is you
And so in conclusion
All you're doing is you're

Giving them what they want

Fire

And passion

Exactly what they want

And never close the door

Giving them what they want

'Til it's time to cash in

And then you've got to leave them wanting

More, more, more more, more, more!

Give them what they want
Give them what they want
Give them what they want

Some sugar in their tea

Give them what they want!

Here, I'll make it easy:
Remember, what they really want is

What we really want is ahh

Me

Mais oui!