Saga Of Jenny-Will Holt/Martha Schlamme

[ti:Saga Of Jenny] [ar:Will Holt] [al:A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Original Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Saga Of Jenny - Will Holt/Martha Schlamme [00:04.65]Jenny made her mind up when she was three [00:07.45]She herself was going to trim the christmas tree [00:10.17]Christmas eve she lit the candles tossed the tapers away [00:13.10]Little jenny was an orphan on christmas day [00:15.76] [00:16.35]Poor jenny bright as a penny [00:19.16]Her equal would be hard to find [00:21.23] [00:21.95]She lost one dad and mother a sister and a brother [00:24.95]But she would make up her mind [00:26.96] [00:29.40]Jenny made her mind up when she was twelve [00:31.68] [00:32.22]That into foreign languages she would delve [00:34.92]But at seventeen to vassar it was quite a blow [00:37.87]That in twenty seven languages she couldn't say no [00:40.50] [00:41.16]Poor jenny bright as a penny [00:43.95]Her equal would be hard to find [00:46.05] [00:46.78]To jenny i'm beholden her heart was big and golden [00:49.20]But she would make up her mind [00:51.62] [00:54.24]Jenny made her mind up at twenty two [00:57.02]To get herself a husband was the thing to do [00:59.89]She got herself all dolled up in her satins and furs [01:02.80]And she got herself a husband but he wasn't hers [01:05.82]Poor jenny bright as a penny [01:08.73]Her equal would be hard to find [01:10.71] [01:11.55]Deserved a bed of roses but history discloses [01:14.42]That she would make up her mind [01:16.56] [01:18.91]Jenny made her mind up at fifty one [01:20.85] [01:21.77]She would write her memoirs before she was done [01:23.94] [01:24.66]The very day her book was published history relates [01:27.48]There were wives who shot their husbands in some [01:29.08]Thirty three states [01:30.22] [01:30.77]Poor jenny bright as a penny [01:33.44]Her equal would be hard to find [01:35.42] [01:36.30]To jenny i'm beholden her heart was big and golden [01:39.28]But she would make up her mind [01:41.09] [01:43.73]Jenny made her mind up at seventy five [01:45.94] [01:46.49]She would live to be the oldest woman alive [01:48.73] [01:49.35]But gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks [01:52.08]And poor jenny kicked the bucket at seventy six [01:55.06]Jenny and her story point the way to glory [01:58.02]To all man and womankind [02:00.26] [02:00.95]Anyone with vision comes to this decision [02:03.78]You mustn't make up you mustn't make up [02:05.22]You shouldn't make up shouldn't make up [02:06.75]Anyone with vision comes to this decision [02:09.77]Don't make up your mind