I Don’t Know / Anyone Who Loves

Lyrics

[Part I: I Don't Know] [REVEREND BOYLE] I don't know I don't know It's a strange predicament I'm in I don't know I don't know How can loving ever really be a sin? My conscience is in a tangle: Can Someone who's Anglican Take all the rules he has Lived by and defy them? Yet in a world so precarious Someone says, "Marry us" No matter who they are How can I deny them? [HARRY] I agree [SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE] So do we [HARRY] You shut up No one asked for your advice Like I said Go ahead [BOYLE] You'd proceed? [HARRY] Yes, indeed Let 'em wed [BOYLE] I don't know I don't know [SHIRLEY] He don't know There he goes with that again [HARRY] Let him think [ELAINE] Give him a drink [BOYLE] Can a wedding be performed with only men? Religiously I'd be vilified Surely I will if I'd Sanction a fruitless And unproductive mating [ELAINE] Hell, what's he all in a sweat about? Can't he forget about Sex and get on with Champagne and celebrating? [HARRY] Zip it up Zip it up This is not for your prehistoric minds [ELAINE] He knows where He can go [BOYLE] You say yes? Acquiesce? [HARRY] I don't know Why not ask our dear Contessa? She's no clergical professor But I'd like to know what she would have to say [BOYLE] In our perilous condition Charles and Edward asked permission No, entreated me to marry them today If it were you What would you do? [CONTESSA] I don't know I don't know I can see it's hard to say, "Of course" Then again They are men And they'll cheat and soon be suing for divorce [BEBE] Let's leave it to the majority [CONTESSA] I'm no authority [HARRY] Neither are you [BEBE] Harry, baby, that goes double [CONTESSA] Poor boys, it will be a blow to them If you say no to them [BOYLE] But by the canon I'd Be inviting trouble [HARRY] That ain't good [BOYLE] But I would Why must right and righteous be so far apart? [CHARLES & EDWARD enter.] [CHARLES] Reverend Boyle Have you thought? [BOYLE] I don't know If I can If I ought [SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE] I don't see why he's afraid to do What he is paid to do [CONTESSA, SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE] It's absolutely bizarre to me (Marry people) But Yankees are to me [HARRY & CONTESSA] I think he's caught in the middle of (Let them if they want to) Life's common riddle of (Why not?) How can you do what you (Why not?) [HARRY & BOYLE] Know you're not supposed to (Please, please) [BOYLE] Don't think I'm forsaking you I'm truly aching to Do what you ask but I Fear I'm not allowed [EDWARD] Never mind [ELAINE] I could cry [CHARLES] You've been kind [BEBE] So could I [HARRY] No, don't go One voice has not been heard Tell me, how does it strike you A well-born Londoner like you When someone's not afraid to be What he was made to be [Part II: Anyone Who Loves] [CYNTHIA] Anyone who loves People anywhere Anyone who loves They deserve a prayer We're only living by the hour While the sages with the power Play their game of peace and war With no shred of pity for Anyone who lives Anyone who loves [HARRY] Couldn't they be blessed? [SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE] Yeah, why couldn't they? [HARRY] Just a word or two Maybe you could say [SHIRLEY, BEBE & ELAINE] Just a word or two? [HARRY] We're here surrounded by the night While God plays idiot's delight Why can't there be a ray of sun That shines on anyone Who loves? There ought to be a ray of sun That shines on anyone Who loves