[NATHAN, spoken]
Look, Adelaide, you're getting yourself upset
You and I are gonna be alright!
After all, we love each other, and we're gonna get married!

[ADELAIDE, spoken]
I don't believe you anymore!

[NATHAN, spoken]
But it's true!
Aw, you'll feel better tomorrow
Come on, cheer up, honey
Let's see that old smile
That's my girl, see you tomorrow

[ADELAIDE]
It says here
The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration, may react
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endurе
Affecting the upper rеspiratory tract

In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold
You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work
If she's tired of getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can develop a cold

It says here
The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency, see note

(spoken)
Tendency, see note?
Oh, see note, oh, oh, here we go

(sung)
Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hyper tense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose and throat

In other words, just from worrying whether the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cough

You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the Bromo-fizz
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is
If she's getting a kind of name for herself, and the name ain't his
A person can develop a cough
And furthermore, just from stalling, and stalling and stalling the wedding trip
A person can develop la grippe

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
Achoo!