Frank Loesser
Adelaide’s Lament
[ADELAIDE]
It says here:
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract
In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency, see note...see note? Ah, note!
Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hyper tense
Involving the eye, the ear, and the nose, and throat
In other words, just from worrying whether the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough
When they get on the train for Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can develop la grippe
La grippe
La post nasal drip
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that's really a pip!
From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting too old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!