Lyrics Marry The Man Today - Soundtrack/Cast Album

1: At Wanamaker's and Saks and Klein's
A lesson I've been taught
You can't get alterations on a dress you haven't bought
2: At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome
You mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home.
1: You've simply got to gamble
2: You get no guarantee
1: Now doesn't that kind of apply to you and I
2: You and me.
1: Why not?
2: Why not what?
1: Marry the man today.
Trouble though he may be
Much as he likes to play
Crazy and wild and free
1& 2: Marry the man today
Rather than sigh in sorrow
1: Marry the man today
And change his ways tomorrow.
2: Marry the man today (1: Marry the man today)
2: Maybe he's leaving town (1: Maybe he's leaving town)
2: Don't let him get away (1: Don't let him get away)
2: Hurry and track him down (1: Counterattack him and)
1& 2: Marry the man today
Give him the girlish laughter
2: Give him your hand today
And save the fist for after.
1: Slowly introduce him to the better things
Respectable, conservative, and clean
2: Readers Digest
1: Guy Lombardo
2: Rogers Peet
1: Golf!
2: Galoshes
1: Ovaltine!
1& 2: But marry the man today
Handle it meek and gently
Marry the man today and train him (2: subsequently)
2: Carefully expose him to domestic life
And if he ever tries to stray from you
Have a pot roast.
1: Have a headache
2: Have a baby
1: have two!
2: Six
1: Nine!
2: STOP!
1& 2: But Marry the Man today
Rather than sign and sorrow
Marry the man today
And change his ways -
Change his ways -
His ways
Tomorrow!