The Illegitimate Daughter / Because, Because (Reprise)

Lyrics

[FRENCH SOLDIERS] Gar�on, s'il vous pla�t Encore Chevrolet coup� Papah, pooh, pooh, pooh! A vous tout dir vay � vous? Gar�on, qu'est-ce que c'est? Tra la, Maurice Chevalier! J'adore cr�pes Suzette Et aussi Lafayette! And now we give the meaning of this song We're six of the fifty million and we can't be wrong [FRENCH SOLDIERS & SECRETARIES] We're six of the fifty million and we can't be wrong [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] I am the Ambassador of France And I've come here to see A grievous wrong righted My country, huh huh, she is deeply hurt Not since the days of Louis the S5venth The Eighth, the Ninth, th5 Tenth And, and possibly the Eleventh Has such a thing happened [WINTERGREEN] What's troubling you? [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] You have done a great injustice To a French descendent A lovely girl Whose rights have been trampled in the dust [WINTERGREEN & SECRETARIES] Who is she? What's her name? [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] Her name is Diana Devereaux [SECRETARIES] Diana Devereaux! Diana Devereaux! Since when is she of French descent? [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] I've been looking up her family tree And I have found a most important pedigree She's the illegitimate daughter Of an illegitimate son Of an illegitimate nephew Of Napoleon [SECRETARIES] Napoleon? [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] She offers aristocracy To this bizarre democracy Where naught is sacred but the old simoleon! I must know why You crucify My native country With this effrontery To the illegitimate daughter Of an illegitimate son Of an illegitimate nephew Of Napoleon! [SECRETARIES] To the illegitimate daughter Of an illegitimate son Of an illegitimate nephew Of Napoleon You so-and-so! We didn't know She had a tie-up So very high up! She's the illegitimate daughter Of an illegitimate son Of an illegitimate nephew Of Napoleon [DEVEREAUX] Ah! I was the most beautiful blossom In all the Southland [MARY & WINTERGREEN] We know all that [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] You know all that But you don't know the misery Of this poor little girl who has suffered Because [SECRETARIES] Because? [MARY & WINTERGREEN] Because? [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] Because [DEVEREAUX] Because, because, because, because I won the competition But I got no recognition And because he broke my heart Because, because, because, because The man who ought to love me Tried to make a monkey of me Double-crossing from the start I might have been First Lady But now my past is shady Oh, pity this poor maidie [DEVEREAUX & FRENCH AMBASSADOR] And there's the man who ought to pay! [SECRETARIES] Because, because, because, because She won the prize for beauty But he didn't do his duty He has broken her poor heart! [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] You see how this poor girl has suffered And so, on behalf of France I demand that your marriage be annulled And that you marry Diana [WINTERGREEN] Never, never! [FRENCH AMBASSADOR] Then you will arouse the anger of France And you must be prepared to face the consequences! [FRENCH AMBASSADOR, spoken] Alors! [FRENCH SOLDIERS] Gar�on, s'il vous pla�t Encore Chevrolet coup� Papah, pooh, pooh, pooh! � vous tout dir vay � vous? [FULTON, spoken] Jack, you've got to do something about this [WINTERGREEN, spoken] Leave Mary? Never! [FULTON] We are all in this together We are birdies of a feather And if you don't change your thesis Then our party goes to pieces [LYONS] All our jobs you'll be destroying With your attitude annoying [GILHOOLEY] You will get us all in trouble And in spades, sir, which is double [WINTERGREEN] I will never leave my Mary [LYONS] Since he's acting so contrary Send him off on a vacation [GILHOOLEY] I suggest his resignation [WINTERGREEN] Resignation? [SECRETARIES] Resignation? [FULTON] You've got to face itThis is a crisis! To leave your Mary you may decline But to save us, my good advice is You resign! [SECRETARIES] Yes, resign! [WINTERGREEN] I assure youthough it's a crisis To leave my Mary I must decline And I don't care what your advice is I decline to resign [MARY] We decline to resign [LYONS & GILHOOLEY] He is stubbornWe must teach him I'm afraid we must impeach him [SECRETARIES] He is stubbornWe must teach him He has forced us to impeach him! [COMMITTEE] You decline to resign So we'll teach you We'll impeach you [SECRETARIES] You decline to resign We don't envy you at all [COMMITTEE] You decline to resign So we'll teach you We'll impeach you You decline to resign Humpty Dumpty has to fall