Waiting for the Girls Upstairs

Lyrics

[YOUNG BUDDY] Hey, up there! [YOUNG BEN] Way up there! [YOUNG BUDDY & YOUNG BEN] Whaddaya say, up there? [BUDDY] Hey, up there! [BEN] Way up there! [BUDDY & BEN] Whaddaya say, up there? [BUDDY, spoken] I see it all. It's like a movie in my head that plays and plays. It isn't just the bad things I remember. It's the whole damn show (sung) Waiting around for the girls upstairs After the curtain came down— Money in my pocket to spend "Honey, could you maybe get a friend for my friend?" [BEN] Hearing the sound of the girls above Dressing to go on the town— [BUDDY] Clicking heels on steel and cemеnt— [BEN] Picking up the giggles floating down through the vеnt— [BEN & BUDDY] Goddamnedest hours that I ever spent Were waiting for the girls upstairs [BUDDY] Hey, up there! [BEN] Way up there! [BUDDY] Whaddaya say, up there? [BEN] That's where the keys hung and That's where you picked up your mail... [BUDDY] I remember... Me and Ben Me and Ben We'd come around at ten Me and Ben And hang around the wings Watching things With what-the-hell-was-his-name You know, the old guy—? Max! I remember! Anyway There we'd stay Until the curtain fell And when the curtain fell Then all hell broke: Girls on the run And scenery flying Doors slamming left and right— [BEN] Girls in their un- Dies, blushing but trying Not to duck out of sight— [BEN, BUDDY] Girls by the hun- Dreds waving and crying "See you tomorrow night!" Girls looking frazzled and girls looking great Girls in a frenzy to get to a date Girls like a madhouse and two of them late... And who had to wait? And wait? And wait And wait [PHYLLIS] Waiting around for the boys downstairs Stalling as long as we dare Which dress from my wardrobe of two? (One of them was borrowed and the other was blue) [SALLY] Holding our ground for the boys below Fussing around with our hair— [PHYLLIS] Giggling, wriggling out of our tights [SALLY] Chattering and clattering down all of those flights— [SALLY & PHYLLIS] God, I'd forgotten there ever were nights Of waiting for the boys downstairs [BEN & BUDDY] You up there! [SALLY] Down in a minute! [BEN & BUDDY] You two up there! [PHYLLIS] Just keep your shirts on! [BEN & BUDDY] Aren't you through up there? [SALLY & PHYLLIS] Heard you the first time! [BEN & BUDDY] Look, are you coming or Aren't you coming 'cause Look, if we're going We Got to get going 'cause Look, they won't hold us A table at ringside All night [SALLY & PHYLLIS] Coming, we're coming Will you hold your horses We're coming, we're ready, be There in a jiffy, we're Coming, we're coming All right! [YOUNG SALLY] Hi [YOUNG BEN] Girls... [YOUNG PHYLLIS] Ben... [YOUNG BUDDY] Sally... [YOUNG SALLY] Boy, we're beat [YOUNG BUDDY] You look neat [YOUNG PHYLLIS] We saw you in the wings [YOUNG BEN] How are things? [YOUNG PHYLLIS] Did someone pass you in? [YOUNG BUDDY] Slipped a fin To what-the-hell-was-his-name You know, the doorman [YOUNG PHYLLIS] Al? [YOUNG BUDDY] No [YOUNG SALLY] Big? [YOUNG BUDDY] Fat [YOUNG PHYLLIS] Young? [YOUNG BUDDY] Bald [YOUNG SALLY] Harry! [YOUNG BUDDY] Yeah [YOUNG SALLY] Okey doaks [YOUNG BUDDY] Come on, folks [YOUNG PHYLLIS] And where we're gonna go? [YOUNG BEN] A little joint I know [YOUNG SALLY] What? [YOUNG BUDDY] Great new show there [YOUNG PHYLLIS] Hey, I thought you said Tonight's be Tony's— [YOUNG BUDDY] This joint is just as grand [YOUNG SALLY] We girls got dressed for Dancing at Tony's— [YOUNG BEN] This joint is in demand [YOUNG SALLY & YOUNG PHYLLIS] Ta-ta, goodbye, you'll Find us at Tony's— [YOUNG BUDDY & YOUNG BEN] Wait till you hear the band! [YOUNG SALLY & YOUNG PHYLLIS] You told us Tony's That we'd go to Tony's Then Ben mentioned Tony's— Well, someone said Tony's [YOUNG BUDDY & YOUNG BEN] I told you Tony's? I never said Tony's! [ALL WOMEN] There's dancing at Tony's— All right, then, we'll go! [ALL MEN] When's Ben mentioned Tony's? It's ritzy at Tony's— All right, then, we'll go! [BUDDY] Waiting around for the girls upstairs Weren't we chuckleheads then? [BEN] Very young and very old hat— Everybody has to go through stages like that [BUDDY, BEN, SALLY & PHYLLIS] Waiting around for the girls upstairs— Thank you, but never again Life was fun, but oh, so intense Everything was possible and nothing made sense [ALL] Back there when one of the major events Was waiting for the girls Waiting for the girls Waiting for the girls upstairs