I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face-Rex Harrison

[ti:I've Grown Accustomed To Her F] [ar:Original Broadway Cast Recordi] [al:My Fair Lady] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Rex Harrison [00:12.73]Damn Damn Damn Damn [00:15.85] [00:17.48]I've grown accustomed to her face [00:19.55] [00:24.86]She almost makes the day begin [00:26.85] [00:29.35]I've grown accustomed to the tune [00:31.67]She whistles night and noon [00:33.54]Her smiles her frowns [00:36.13]Her ups her downs [00:38.56]Are second nature to me now; [00:40.50] [00:42.87]Like breathing out and breathing in [00:45.55] [00:47.49]I was serenely independent and content before we met; [00:51.35] [00:52.04]Surely I could always be that way again- [00:55.10] [00:56.84]And yet [00:58.09]I've grown accustomed to her look; [01:00.42] [01:01.29]Accustomed to her voice; [01:03.52] [01:04.08]Accustomed to her face [01:08.14] [01:12.76]"Marry Freddy " What an infantile idea What a heartless [01:16.69]Wicked brainless thing to do But she'll regret she'll [01:19.89] [01:20.56]Regret it It's doomed before they even take the vow [01:24.87] [01:26.11]I can see her now Mrs Freddy Eynsford-Hill [01:29.36]In a wretched little flat above a store [01:31.48] [01:32.17]I can see her now not a penny in the till [01:34.85]And a bill collector beating at the door [01:36.78] [01:37.29]She'll try to teach the things I taught her [01:39.84] [01:40.53]And end up selling flowers instead [01:42.46] [01:43.40]Begging for her bread and water [01:45.33] [01:45.90]While her husband has his breakfast in bed [01:48.52] [01:50.95]In a year or so when she's prematurely grey [01:54.38]And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk [01:57.38]She'll come home and lo he'll have upped and run away [02:00.37]With a social-climbing heiress from New York [02:02.96] [02:04.21]Poor Eliza How simply frightful [02:08.45]How humiliating How delightful [02:12.36] [02:13.55]How poignant it'll be on that inevitable night [02:16.48] [02:17.35]When she hammers on my door in tears and rags [02:20.54]Miserable and lonely repentant and contrite [02:23.25] [02:24.13]Will I take her in or hurl her to the walls [02:27.18]Give her kindness or the treatment she deserves [02:29.76] [02:30.70]Will I take her back or throw the baggage out [02:34.36] [02:37.92]But I'm a most forgiving man; [02:40.16]The sort who never could ever would [02:43.41]Take a position and staunchly never budge [02:46.22] [02:49.40]A most forgiving man [02:51.77] [02:54.45]But I shall never take her back [02:56.76] [02:57.89]If she were even crawling on her knees [03:00.57]Let her promise to atone; [03:02.07]Let her shiver let her moan; [03:03.25]I'll slam the door and let the hell-cat freeze [03:06.93] [03:09.37]"Marry Freddy"-h a [03:11.48] [03:20.73]But I'm so used to hear her say [03:22.85] [03:23.42]"Good morning" ev'ry day [03:25.22] [03:25.85]Her joys her woes [03:28.53]Her highs her lows [03:31.40]Are second nature to me now; [03:33.65] [03:35.78]Like breathing out and breathing in [03:38.40] [03:40.65]I'm very grateful she's a woman [03:42.71]And so easy to forget; [03:44.39] [03:45.39]Rather like a habit [03:47.26]One can always break- [03:49.27] [03:50.51]And yet [03:51.39] [03:51.95]I've grown accustomed to the trace [03:54.63] [03:55.32]Of something in the air; [03:58.15] [03:58.71]Accustomed to her face