Kunci: D major
Verse 1
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What in all of heaven could've
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prompted her to go
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After such a triumph as
the ball?
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What could've depressed
her?
What could've possessed her?
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I cannot understand the wretch
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at all!
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Wo men are irrational,
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that's all there is to that
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Their heads are full of cotton,
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hay, and rags
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They're nothing but exasperating,
irritating
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Vacillating, calculating, agitating
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Maddening and infuriating hags!
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Verse 3
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Pickering, why can't a wo
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man be more like a man?
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Hmm?
Yes...
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Why can't a woman be
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more like a man?
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Men are so honest,
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so thoroughly square
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Eternally noble,
Em
historically fair
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Who, when you win,
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will always give your back a pat
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Why can't a woman be like that?
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Why does everyone do what the
Verse 4
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others do?
Can't a woman learn to
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use her head?
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Why do they do everything their
mothers do?
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Why don't they grow up like their
father instead?
Verse 5
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Why can't a woman take
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after a man?
Men are so pleasant,
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so easy to please
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Whenever you're with them,
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you're always at ease
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Would you be slighted if I
Verse 6
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didn't speak for hours?
Of course not!
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Would you be livid if I
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had a drink or two?
Nonsense!
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Would you be wounded if I
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never sent you flowers?
Never!
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Well, why can't a woman be like you?
Verse 7
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One man in a million may shout a bit
Now and then,
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there's one with slight de fects
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One, perhaps,
whose truthfulness you doubt a bit
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But by and large we are
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a marvelous sex!
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Why can't a woman behave like a
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man?
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Bm
Men are so friendly, good natured and kind
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Em
A better companion you never will find
Verse 9
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If I were hours late for dinner,
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would you bellow?
Of course not!
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If I forgot your silly birthday,
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would you fuss?
Nonsense!
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Would you complain if I took
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out another fellow?!
Never!
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Well, why can't a woman
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be like us?!
Verse 10
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Mrs. Pearce, you're a wo man...
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Why can't a woman be
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more like a man?
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Men are so decent, such regular chaps
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Ready to help you through
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any mishaps
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Ready to buck you up whenever
you are glum
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Why can't a woman be a chum?
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Why is thinking something women
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never do?
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Why is logic never even tried?
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Straightening up their hair
is all they ever do
Why don't they straighten
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up the mess that's inside?
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Why can't a woman
Verse 12
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be
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more like a man?
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If I was a woman who'd been to a ball,
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Been hailed as a princess
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by one and by all
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Would I start weeping like a
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bathtub overflowing?
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And carry on as if my home
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were in a tree?
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Would I run off and never tell
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me where I'm going?
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Why can't a woman be like me?
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