MEN: Friend, what's on your mind? Why do you walk around and around? With your hands folded behind? And your chin scraping the ground?
ALI: Twenty minutes ago, I am free, like a breeze. Free like a bird in the woodland wild. Free like a gypsy, free like a child. I am unattached.
Twenty minutes ago, I can do what I please. Flick my cigar ashes on the rug. Dunk with a donut, drink from a jug. I am a happy man.
I am minding my own business like I oughta. Ain't meaning any harm to anyone. I'm talking to a certain farmer's daughter- Then I am looking in the muzzle of a gun!
MEN: It's getting so you can't have any fun. Every daughter has a father with a gun.
It's a scandal. It's an outrage. How a girl gets a husband today.
ALI: If you make one mistake when the moon is bright Then they tie you to a contract so you make it every night.
MEN: It's a scandal. It's an outrage. When her family surround you and say, \"You gotta take and make an honest woman outa Nell\"
ALI: To make you make her honest, she will lie like hell!
MEN: It's a scandal. It's an outrage. On our manhood it's a blot! Where is the leader who will save us And be the first man to be shot?
ALI: Me?
MEN: Yes, you!
It's a scandal. It's an outrage. Just a wink and a kiss and you're through!
ALI: You're a mess, and in less then a year, by heck There's a baby on your shoulder making bubbles on your neck.
MEN: It's a scandal. It's an outrage. Any farmer will tell you it's true.
ALI: A rooster in a chicken coop is better off than men- He ain't the special property of just one hen.
MEN: It's a scandal. It's an outrage. It's a problem we must solve. We gotta start a revolution!