Barbra Streisand – Adelaide’s Lament

Barbra Streisand – Adelaide’s Lament Lyrics

Artist: Barbra Streisand
Song: Adelaide’s Lament

[from “Guys And Dolls”]
The average unmarried female
Basic’lly insecure
Due to some long frustration

May react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract

In other words,
Just from waiting around
For that little band of gold
A person can develop a cold

You can spray her wherever you figure
The streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot
For whatever she’s got

But it just won’t work
If she’s tired of getting the fish-eye
From the hotel clerk
A person

Can develop a cold
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency

Note: Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic and hypertense
Involving the eye,
The ear and the nose and throat

In other words,
Just from worrying
Whether the wedding is on or off,
A person

Can develop a cough
You can feed her all day
With the Vitamin A
And the Bromo Fizz

But the medicine never
Gets anywhere near
Where the trouble is
If she’s getting a kind

Of name for herself
And the name ain’t “his”
A person
Can develop a cough

And further more
Just from stalling
And stalling and stalling
The wedding trip

A person
Can develop La grippe
When they get on a train
For Niag’ra

And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga

For the fourteenth time
A person
Can develop La grippe
La grippe, La post nasal drip

With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that’s really a pip!
For a lack of community property

And a feeling she’s getting too old
A person
Can develop
A bad, bad cold!
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From the album:
The Broadway Album
Release Year: 2002