Dames!

[Dillinger]

There Is Nothing Like A Dame
Rogers and Hammerstein
South Pacific

We got sunlight on the sand, we got moonlight on the sea
We got mangos and bananas you can pick right off a tree
We got volleyball and Ping-Pong and a lot of dandy games
What ain't we got? We ain't got dames
We get packages from home, we get movies, we get shows
We get speeches from our skipper and advice from Tokyo Rose
We get letters doused with perfume we get dizzy from the smell
What don't we get? You know damn well!
We have nothing to put on a clean white suit for
What we need is what there ain't no substitute for...
There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
We feel restless, we feel blue, we feel lonely and in grief
We feel every kind of feeling, but the feeling of relief
We feel hungry as the wolf felt when he met Red Riding-Hood
What don't we feel? We don't feel good!
Lots of things in life are beautiful, but brother
There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever
In anyway shape or form like any other
There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world,
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
Nothing else was built the same, nothing in the world
As the soft and wavy frame like the silhouette of a dame
There is absolutely nothing like a frame of a dame
So suppose that dame ain't bright or completely free from flaws
Or as faithful as the bird dog or as kind as Santa Claus
It's a waste of time to worry over things that they have not
We're thankful for the things they got
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
There are no books like a dame
And nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothing thinks like a dame
Nothing acts like a dame or attracts like a dame
There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by putting him near
A girly womanly female feminine dame

 

[KillerMuffin]

Yet another list I didn't make...

 

[April]

LOL at KM.

 

[alltherage]

Next, I enjoy being a girl?

 

[TN_Vixen]

LOL KM, you're starting to sound like Siren.

 

[Guest]

Oh no. You did it! I'm pulling out the vinyls!

 

[unclej]

who sang it dilly? i'm picturing frank sinatra but i don't know if he was in south pacific.

 

[La Principessa]

who sang it dilly? i'm picturing frank sinatra but i don't know if he was in south pacific.

actually it was sung by the male ensemble of the cast of South Pacific. Most famously starring Mary Martin and Enzo Penza (sp?).
Sinatra was never in South Pacific.

unclej, you might be thinking about "On The Town" or "Anchors Away" where Frank played a sailor in both!!

 

[Dillinger]

Yes - La Principia is right - sung by the sailors in the musical.

 

[lavender]

 

[JennyOmanHill]

sigh...

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger
you may see a stranger across a crowded room,
an' somehow you know, you know even then,
that somewhere you'll see her again and again!

Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing
you may hear her laughing across a crowded room,
an' night after night as strange as it seems
the sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams!

Who can explain it, who can tell you why,
fools give you reasons, wise men never try!

Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love
when you hear her call you across a crowded room,
then fly to her side and make her your own
or all thru your life you may dream all alone!

Once you have found her,
never let her go!

Once you have found her,
never let her go!

Music by Richard Rodgers
with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1949

 

[cybergirly]

Hunting Song

Up, up ! ye dames, ye lasses gay !
To the meadows trip away.
'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn,
And scare the small birds from the corn.

Not a soul at home may stay :
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
Leave the hearth and leave the house
To the cricket and the mouse :
Find grannam out a sunny seat,
With babe and lambkin at her feet.
Not a soul at home must stay :
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

[unclej]

yep, i can see it now. what i was actually thinking about was sinatra singing "that's why the lady is a tramp" which was in auntie mame, i think.

 

[sunstruck]

who sang it dilly? i'm picturing frank sinatra but i don't know if he was in south pacific.

You're thinking of Guys and Dolls. "For Some Doll"

"When you see a gent
paying all kinds of rent
on a flat that could flatten the Taje Ma Hal (SP)

Call it sad call it funny
Ya but you can bet even money
that the guys only doin if for some doll".

 

[La Principessa]

yep, i can see it now. what i was actually thinking about was sinatra singing "that's why the lady is a tramp" which was in auntie mame, i think.

No dear, Sinatra did sing "Lady is a Tramp" but it was in "Pal Joey" not Auntie Mame.

Auntie Mame was Lucille Ball!!!

You are cute when your confused!!