Never Was There a Girl So Fair / Some Girls Can Bake a Pie versuri

Versuri 1952 Broadway Cast of Of Thee I Sing – Never Was There a Girl So Fair / Some Girls Can Bake a Pie lyrics

[FULTON]
As the chairman of the committee
I announce we’ve made our choice
Every lover from Dubuque to Jersey City
Should rejoice

[COMMITTEE]
We rejoice!
When the angels up there designed her
They designed a thoroughbred
And it’s eight to five the President will find her
Worthy of his board and bed

[FULTON, spoken]
And now it thrills me to introduce the rarest of American beauties
Miss Diana Devereaux

[ENSEMBLE]
How beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
How utterly, utterly so
The charming, the gracious, the dutiful
Diana Devereaux

[FULTON, spoken]
The committee will now tell why she was chosen, with music

[COMMITTEE]
Never was there a girl so fair
Never was there a form so rare

[DEVEREAUX, spoken]
I could throw my arms right around your neck!

[FULTON]
A voice so lyrical
Is given few
Her eyes a miracle
Of baby blue

[COMMITTEE]
Ruby lips and a foot so small
As for hips—she has none at all

[WINTERGREEN]
Stop! No!
Though this may be a blow
I simply cannot marry
Diana Devereaux

[ENSEMBLE]
What’s this? What’s this?
He says he cannot marry
Diana Devereaux

[COMMITTEE]
You mean you will not marry
Diana Devereaux?

[WINTERGREEN]
Please understand
It isn’t that I would jilt or spurn her
It’s just that I love someone else

[ENSEMBLE, spoken]
Who?

[WINTERGREEN]
Mary Turner

[COMMITTEE]
The man is mad
Or else a cad
He’ll have to take her
He can’t forsake her

[DEVEREAUX]
This jilting me
It cannot be
This lousy action
Calls for retraction

[COMMITTEE]
We must know why
You should prefer
Instead of Di
A girl like her

[ENSEMBLE]
Yes, tell us why
You should prefer
Instead of Di
A girl like her

[WINTERGREEN]
All that I can say of Mary Turner
Is that I love Mary Turner

[COMMITTEE]
What’s to be done?
Though she has won
Though she is signed up
He’s made his mind up
His love he’d rather
Give to the other
What shall we do now?
What is our cue now?

[DEVEREAUX]
He will do nothing of the sort
First we’ll settle this thing in court
You seem to think Miss Turner hits the spot
But what has she got that I haven’t got?

[ENSEMBLE]
Yes, what has she got
That she hasn’t got?

[WINTERGREEN]
My Mary can make corn muffins
Can you make corn muffins?

[DEVEREAUX]
I can make hominy grits and southern fried chicken

[WINTERGREEN, spoken]
Answer the question
Can you make corn muffins?

[DEVEREAUX]
No, I can’t make corn muffins

[ENSEMBLE]
She can’t make corn muffins

[WINTERGREEN, spoken]
There you are

[WINTERGREEN]
Some girls can bake a pie
Made up of prunes and quinces
Some make an oyster fry
Others are good at blintzes
Some lovely girls have done
Wonders with turkey stuffin’s
But I have found the one
Who can really make corn muffins

[DEVEREAUX, spoken]
Who cares about corn muffins?
Down south we feed them to Republicans

[WINTERGREEN, COMMITTEE & WOMEN]
Some girls can bake a pie (Corn muffins) (Don’t surrender)
Though other girls are good at turkey stuffin’s
Made up of prunes and quinces (She takes the cake) (Don’t be tender)
For she can bake corn muffins
Some make (Corn muffins)
An oyster fry (He’s not to blame for falling) (She’s the winner)
If she’s able to
Others are good (To serve them at) (She is a little)
At blintzes (His table) (Sinner)
Some lovely girls (They should be happy) (Come)
Have done (Night and day) (Make)
Wonders with (They’ll make a couple) (Your)
Turkey stuffins’ (So delightful) (Mind up)
But I have found (When two agree) (She)
The one (On corn muffins) (Not her)
Who can really make (Their marriage is) (Is the one who’s really)
Corn muffins (Only rightful) (Signed up)

[ENSEMBLE]
Great! Great!
It really must be fate
We must declare these muffins
The best we ever ate!
There’s none but Mary Turner
Could ever be his mate
There’s none but Mary Turner
Could ever be his mate
Let’s all rejoice!