Count Danilo: It’s a problem Men: It’s a problem Count Danilo: How to manage Men: To go on Count Danilo: How to manage willful women When the bloom of youth has gone Man: How to keep them Men: Keep them faithful Man: Is the question Men: We’re about Count Danilo: If there’s any bright suggestion Men: We’re ready to try it out
Count Danilo: The one pursues the latest fashion Men: Coiffure, hipline, toque, and muff Count Danilo: And one the grand romantic passion Men: Tristan and Isolde stuff Count Danilo: The next demands a bow-neck hero Men: Spurs and wax mustachio Count Danilo: With brawn at plus and brain of zero Men: Ajax or Petruchio Count Danilo: The fourth is fractious late and early Men: Scolding when the guests are gone Count Danilo: Still thriving in the hurly-burly Men: Offspring of an Amazon Count Danilo: But some, of course, are sweet and tender Men: Snakes that wheedle and beguile We’ll close our ranks and not surrender Wondering what to do meanwhile
What to think, what to say, what to do What a red-letter day if we knew Being male we may fail but we try Yes, we try, try, try, try, try
Clutching hope we must cope as we can Though it’s plainly too much for a man Though you sweat, though you slave They forget what you gave Then you’re back where you first began
What to think, what to say, what to do What a red-letter day if we knew Being male we may fail but we try Yes, we try, try, try, try, try
Clutching hope we must cope as we can Though it’s plainly too much for a man Though you sweat, though you slave They forget what you gave Then you’re back where you first began
Man: What to think, what to say, what to do Men: Women, women, women, women, Count Danilo: What a red-letter day if we knew Men: Women, women, women, women, Both: Being male we may fail but we try Men: Yes, we try, try, try, try, try
Clutching hope we must cope as we can Though it’s plainly too much for a man Though you sweat, though you slave They forget what you gave Then you’re back where you first began