Perfectly Marvellous

Lyrics

[SALLY, spoken] [stuttering] Cliff, if you don't mind, I'd like to withdraw the question. 'Cause, well, it's really none of my business. I think people are people, I really do, Cliff. Don't you? I don't think they should have to explain a thing. For example, if I should paint my fingernails green. And, well, it just so happens I do paint them green. Well, if anyone should ask me why, I say "I think it's pretty". "I think it's pretty," I reply So, if anyone should ask about you and me one day, you have two alternatives: You can either say, "Oh, yes, we're living in delicious sin", or you can simply tеll the truth and say: (sung) I met this perfеctly marvelous girl In this perfectly wonderful place! As I lifted a glass to the start of a marvellous year Before I knew it, she called on the phone, inviting Next moment I was no longer alone But sat reciting Some perfectly beautiful verse In my charming American style How I dazzled her senses Is truly no less than a crime Yes, this perfectly marvellous girl In my perfectly beautiful room And we're living together and having a marvellous time! [CLIFF, spoken] Sally, I'm afraid this wouldn't work out You're much too distracting [SALLY, spoken] Distracting? No, inspiring! (sung) She tells me perfectly marvelous tales Of her thrillingly scandalous life Which I'll probably use as a chapter or two in my book And since my stay in Berlin was to force creation What luck to fall on a fabulous source Of stimulation And perfectly marvelous too Is her perfect agreement to be Just as, still as a mouse, while I'm giving my novel a whirl Yes, I've a highly agreeable life In my perfectly beautiful room With my nearly invisible, perfectly marvellous girl [CLIFF, spoken] Okay, Sally, I can't afford... Do you have any money? [SALLY, spoken] Yes, six marks! [CLIFF, spoken] Oh God! [SALLY, spoken] Oh, please Cliff, just for a night or two, please? [CLIFF] I met this Truly remarkable girl In this really incredible town And she skillfully managed To talk her way into my room [SALLY, spoken] Oh, Cliff! [CLIFF] I have a terrible feeling I've said a dumb thing Beside, I've only got one narrow bed [SALLY] We'll think of something