Gigi.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. Mar 2001.

[Gaston] She's a babe!
Just a babe!

Still cavorting in her crib;
eating breakfast with a bib;

with her baby teeth,
and all her baby curls.

She's a tot!
Just a tot!

Good for bouncing on your knee,
I am positive that she,
doesn't even know that boys aren't girls.

She's a snip!
Just a snip!

Making dreadful baby noise;
having fun with all her toys;

just a chickadee
who needs her mother hen.

She's a cub! A papoose!
You could never turn her loose.
She's too infantile to take her from her pen.

[Spoken] Of course that weekend in Trouville,
in spite of all her youthful zeal.

She was exceedingly polite,
and on the whole a sheer delight.

And if it wasn't joy galore,
at least not once was she a bore,

that I recall.
No, not at all.

Hah! She's a child
A silly child!

Adolescent to her toes,
and good heavens, how it shows.
Sticky thumbs are all the fingers she has got.

She's a child!
A clumsy child!

She's as swollen as a grape,
and she doesn't have a shape,

where her figure ought to be,
it is not.

Just a child!
A growing child!

But so backward for her years,
If a boy her age appears,
I am certain he will never call again.

She's a scamp
and a brat!
Doesn't know where she is at.

Unequipped
and undesirable
to men.

[Spoken] of course, I must in truth confess,
that in that brand new little dress,

she look'd surprisingly mature
and had a definite allure.

It was a shock,
in fact, to me,

a most amazing shock to see
The way it clung,
On one so young.

Ah! She's a girl!
A little girl!

Getting older, it is true,
which is what they always do;

Till that unexpected hour
When they blossom like a flower...!

Oh, no!
Oh No!

There's sweeter music when she speaks, isn't there?
A diff'rent bloom about her cheeks, isn't there?

Could I be wrong?
Could it be so?

Oh, where, oh, where
did Gigi go?

Gigi,
am I a fool without a mind,

or have I merely been too blind
to realise?

Oh, Gigi,
why you've been growing up
before my eyes.

Gigi,
you're not at all that funny,
awkward little girl I knew!

Oh, no!
Overnight there's been a breathless change in you.

Oh, Gigi,
while you were trembling on the brink
was I out yonder somewhere blinking at a star?

Oh, Gigi,
have I been standing up too close,
or back too far?

When did your sparkle
turn to fire?

And your warmth
become desire.
oh, what miracle has made you the way you are?

Gigi....!

Gigi...!

Gigi...!

Oh, no!
I was mad not to have seen the change in you!

Oh, Gigi,
while you were trembling on the brink,

was I out yonder somewhere
blinking at a star?

Oh, Gigi,
have I been standing up too close
or back too far?

When did your sparkle turn to fire?
And your warmth become desire?

Oh, what miracle
has made you the way you are?

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Gigi 12 Gigi 1957 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 04 Mar 2001

Gigi 12 Gigi 1957 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 04 Mar 2001
Copyright 1957 (unpub.) 1958 and 1975
by Chappell and Co Inc.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne 04 Mar 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones