A Little Brain

Lyrics

In days gone by An average sort of man Would cause a girl to sigh With pearl and Chinese fan But now each gal wants something more From the Love Canal to the Jersey Shore And all of those gifts have fallen ineffectual For the lady wants to love an intellectual You'd like to get me into bed Well I've got to know that you have read Your Faulkner and your Proust and your Dos Passos You can't just touch me on the thigh If you want me to satisfy your little guy Unless you can hold forth about Dalís and Picassos You want to get my hair in a tussle Talk to me about Bеrtrand Russel Share your point of view on marriagе and morals [spoken] I adore that book! Jewelry sure won't do the trick Red fox fur just makes me sick But offer a list of your academic laurels And soon, dear mister You'll make me weak in the patella You'll woo this sister With a disquisition on Melville's novella Today, we play at a different kind of game A fella's gotta win his gal with a little brain [spoken] Now I'm known the world over as the thinking man's stripper, but honey, it's a two way street. When I look out at all you high brow mooks in elbow patches, oh I get all hot and bothered. It's like a sea of tweed and herringbone. Ooh! Where's a fan dancer when you need one? Tell me you've got a PhD On the use of phallic imagery By 19th century symbolists in Brussels Is your dissertation thick? Does its substance really stick? I measure my men by their pencils And not by their muscles And soon, dear mister You'll make me weak in the tibia You'll woo this sister With a disquisition on [?] trivia Today, we play at a different kind of game A fella's gotta win his gal with a little brain I die for first rate prose When men give me Dickens How my river flows It's now somehow I find British lit so stirring Recite all night And you'll likely get me Purring loudly next to you And soon, dear mister You'll make me weak in the patella You'll woo this sister With a reading from Balzac Today, we play at a different kind of game A fella's gotta win his gal with a little brain A fella's gotta win his gal with a little brain A fella's gotta win, fella's gotta win Fella's gotta win, fella's gotta win A fella's gotta win his gal with a little Brain