MFL_25_Without You - 1956

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 23 Mar 2003

[Eliza:] What a fool I was!
What a dominated fool!
To think you were the earth and sky.
What a fool I was!
What an addlepated fool!
What a muttonheaded dolt was I!
No, my reverberating friend,
you are not the beginning
and the end!
[Higgins spoken:] You impudent hussy!
There isn't an idea in your head
or a word in your mouth
that I haven't put there!

[Eliza:] There'll be spring
every year without you.
England still will be here
without you.
There'll be fruit on the tree;
and a shore by the sea;
there'll be crumpets and tea
without you.
Art and music will thrive
without you.
Somehow Keats will survive
without you.
And there still will be rain
on that plain down in Spain,
even that will survive
without you.
I can do without you.

You dear friend who speaks so well.
You can go to
Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire.
They can still rule the world
without you.
Windsor Castle will stand
without you.
And without much ado
We can all muddle through
without you.
[Higgins spoken:] You brazen hussy!

[Eliza:] Without your pulling it,
the tide comes in,
without your twirling it,
the earth can spin.
Without your pushing them
the clouds roll by.
If they can do without you, ducky
so can I!

I shall not feel alone
without you.
I can stand on my own
without you.
So go back to your shell,
I can do bloody well
without....

[Higgins:] By George,
I really did it!
I did it! I did it!
I said I'd make a woman
and indeed I did!
I knew that I could do it!
I knew it! I knew it!
I said I'd make a woman
and succeed I did!

[Spoken:] Eliza,
you're magnificent!

[Dialogue continues:]

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
drum
bassoon
fiddle
piano t clef
harp
pizz str
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25 - Without You - MFL 1956
Music by Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner
copyright MCMLVI by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Sunday 23 March 2003 at 11.33
in association with Doug Grierson
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