[ti:A Hymn to Him]
[ar:Alan Jay Lerner]
[al:My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording]
[by:]
[00:00.00]A Hymn to Him - Alan Jay Lerner
[00:00.88]What in all of Heaven could have prompted her to go
[00:03.88]After such a triumph at the ball
[00:06.49]What could have depressed her
[00:07.93]What could have possessed her
[00:09.18]I cannot understand the wretch at all
[00:22.15]Women are irrational that's all there is to that
[00:24.68]Their heads are full of cotton hay and rags
[00:27.25]They're nothing but exasperating irritating vacillating
[00:29.86]Calculating agitating maddening and infuriating hags
[00:41.15]Why can't a woman be more like man
[00:45.81]Why can't a woman be more like man
[00:49.81]Men are so honest so thoroughly square
[00:53.32]Eternally noble historically fair
[00:57.05]Who when you win will always give your back a pat
[01:00.79]Why can't a woman be like that
[01:04.85]Why does every one do what the others do
[01:08.56]Can't a woman learn to use her head
[01:12.18]Why do they do everything their mothers do
[01:15.26]Why don't they grow up like their father instead
[01:19.01]Why can't a woman take after a man
[01:22.98]Men are so pleasant so easy to please
[01:26.21]Whenever you're with them you're always at ease
[01:29.82]Would you be slighted if I didn't speak for hours
[01:32.84]Of course not
[01:33.66]Would you be livid if I had a drink or two
[01:35.90]Nonsense
[01:36.79]Would you be wounded if I never sent you flowers
[01:39.47]Never
[01:40.23]Well why can't a woman be like you
[01:44.20]One man in a million may shout a bit
[01:47.85]Now and then there's one with slight defects
[01:51.40]One perhaps whose truthfulness you doubt a bit
[01:54.52]But by in large we are a marvelous sex
[01:58.19]Why can't a woman take after a man
[02:01.65]Men are so friendly good natured and kind
[02:05.24]A better companion you never will find
[02:08.82]If I were hours late for dinner would you bellow
[02:11.81]Of course not
[02:12.79]If I forgot your silly birthday would you fuss
[02:14.83]Nonsense
[02:15.43]Would you complain if I took out another fellow
[02:18.38]Never
[02:19.08]Why can't a woman be like us
[02:27.21]Why can't a woman be more like a man
[02:31.20]Men are so decent such regular chaps
[02:34.75]Ready to help you through any mishaps
[02:38.49]Ready to buck you up whenever you are glum
[02:41.96]Why can't a woman be a chum
[02:46.15]Why is thinking something women never do
[02:49.83]Why is logic never even tried
[02:53.32]Straightening up their hair is all they ever do
[02:56.56]Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside
[03:00.41]Why can't a woman behave like a man
[03:03.75]If I were a woman who'd been to a ball
[03:07.58]Been hailed as a princess by one and by all
[03:10.98]Would I start weeping like a bathtub overflowing
[03:14.50]Carry on as if my home were in a tree
[03:17.71]Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going
[03:21.27]Why can't a woman be like me