A Hymn to Him-Alan Jay Lerner

[ti:A Hymn to Him] [ar:Alan Jay Lerner] [al:My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Hymn to Him - Alan Jay Lerner [00:00.88]What in all of Heaven could have prompted her to go [00:03.88]After such a triumph at the ball [00:05.46] [00:06.49]What could have depressed her [00:07.93]What could have possessed her [00:09.18]I cannot understand the wretch at all [00:10.69] [00:22.15]Women are irrational that's all there is to that [00:24.68]Their heads are full of cotton hay and rags [00:26.56] [00:27.25]They're nothing but exasperating irritating vacillating [00:29.86]Calculating agitating maddening and infuriating hags [00:32.94] [00:41.15]Why can't a woman be more like man [00:43.19] [00:45.81]Why can't a woman be more like man [00:48.93] [00:49.81]Men are so honest so thoroughly square [00:52.16] [00:53.32]Eternally noble historically fair [00:56.38] [00:57.05]Who when you win will always give your back a pat [00:59.91] [01:00.79]Why can't a woman be like that [01:03.43] [01:04.85]Why does every one do what the others do [01:07.50] [01:08.56]Can't a woman learn to use her head [01:10.92] [01:12.18]Why do they do everything their mothers do [01:15.26]Why don't they grow up like their father instead [01:17.89] [01:19.01]Why can't a woman take after a man [01:21.66] [01:22.98]Men are so pleasant so easy to please [01:25.28] [01:26.21]Whenever you're with them you're always at ease [01:29.15] [01:29.82]Would you be slighted if I didn't speak for hours [01:32.84]Of course not [01:33.66]Would you be livid if I had a drink or two [01:35.90]Nonsense [01:36.79]Would you be wounded if I never sent you flowers [01:39.47]Never [01:40.23]Well why can't a woman be like you [01:42.64] [01:44.20]One man in a million may shout a bit [01:46.84] [01:47.85]Now and then there's one with slight defects [01:50.18] [01:51.40]One perhaps whose truthfulness you doubt a bit [01:54.52]But by in large we are a marvelous sex [01:58.19]Why can't a woman take after a man [02:00.90] [02:01.65]Men are so friendly good natured and kind [02:04.43] [02:05.24]A better companion you never will find [02:07.86] [02:08.82]If I were hours late for dinner would you bellow [02:11.81]Of course not [02:12.79]If I forgot your silly birthday would you fuss [02:14.83]Nonsense [02:15.43]Would you complain if I took out another fellow [02:17.57] [02:18.38]Never [02:19.08]Why can't a woman be like us [02:21.86] [02:27.21]Why can't a woman be more like a man [02:30.34] [02:31.20]Men are so decent such regular chaps [02:33.53] [02:34.75]Ready to help you through any mishaps [02:37.20] [02:38.49]Ready to buck you up whenever you are glum [02:40.82] [02:41.96]Why can't a woman be a chum [02:44.81] [02:46.15]Why is thinking something women never do [02:48.62] [02:49.83]Why is logic never even tried [02:52.23] [02:53.32]Straightening up their hair is all they ever do [02:56.56]Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside [02:59.85] [03:00.41]Why can't a woman behave like a man [03:03.04] [03:03.75]If I were a woman who'd been to a ball [03:06.70] [03:07.58]Been hailed as a princess by one and by all [03:10.20] [03:10.98]Would I start weeping like a bathtub overflowing [03:13.62] [03:14.50]Carry on as if my home were in a tree [03:17.12] [03:17.71]Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going [03:20.32] [03:21.27]Why can't a woman be like me