Finaletto Act II

Lyrics

[BOYS & GIRLS] What a peach of a girl She is charming She is sweet, she is swank She is swell You can bet Nanette Was the pride and pet Of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel [SUE, spoken] Nanette, what are you doing here? [NANETTE, spoken] Well, you see, I spent the night in Trenton with my grandmother.  [SUE, spoken] She lives in Omaha [NANETTE, spoken] No, the other one [SUE, spoken] She lives in Omaha [NANETTE, spoken] She went to her great reward ten years ago [SUE, spoken] Well, uh, I, uh- Oh, it's no use, I have to tell the truth. I spent the night in Atlantic City.  [NANETTE, spoken] Oh, no, Nanette.  [BOYS & GIRLS] No, No, Nanette You told a lie [Tom, spoken] How could you? [PAULINE, spoken] But I acted as her chaperone.  [SUE, spoken] Pauline, pack Nanette's bags and take her back to New York on the next train.  [NANNETTE, spoken] No, no.  [SUE, spoken] Yes, yes, Nanette [BOYS & GIRLS] Yes, yes, Nanette And now goodbye [SUE, spoken] Lucille.  [Lucille, spoken] Sue.  [SUE, spoken] You're my best friend.  [LUCILLE, spoken] And you're mine.  [SUE, spoken] There's something I must tell you. Why should you get an anonymous letter or overhear it in a powder room? [LUCILLE, spoken] What is it? [SUE, spoken] Well, your husband has been philandering with those three lovely girls, especially the big one.  [TOM, spoken] That's a lie! [BILLY, spoken] Shh! There's ten thousand in it.  [TOM, spoken] Well, I mean that's not a lie.  [LUCILLE, spoken] Tom.  [TOM, spoken] Yes? [LUCILLE, spoken] Get my bags. I'm going to stay at the Hotel Traymore.  [TOM, spoken] Right.  [LUCILLE, spoken] And as for you, Billy: [LUCILLE] You can dance with any girl at all Just forget me And act as though You never met me [BILLY, spoken] Lucille, do you really think I'd: [BILLY] Show those ladies every step I know? Just raise Hades till they tingle Or mingle till they think I'm single? [NANETTE, spoken] Tom.  [TOM, spoken] Hands off me, woman.  [NANETTE, spoken] He called me "woman"! [TOM, spoken] And only yesterday: [TOM] I confessed to the breeze "I loved you" Told the birds and the bees Your name [LUCILLE, spoken] Come, Tom.  [PAULINE, spoken] Come, N. Back to little old New York.  [SUE, spoken] Jimmy! [JIMMY, spoken] Oh, there you are. I've been looking high and low for you.  [SUE, spoken] Have you any idea what's been going around here? [JIMMY, spoken] None, dearest. All I can tell you is: [JIMMY] I want to be happy [FlORA, BETTY & WINNIE] But he can't be happy [ALL] Till we are all happy too