Pretty Women* ~ The Ladies Who Lunch**
- From the musicals, Sweeney
Todd (1979) and Company (1970) respectively
- Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
- This version taken from Barbra
Streisand's 1985 album, The Broadway Album
* Pretty women
Fascinating
Sipping coffee
Dancing, pretty women
Are a wonder, pretty women
Sitting in the window or standing on the stair
Something in them cheers the air.
Pretty women
Silhouetted
Stay within you
Glancing stay forever
Breathing lightly, pretty women,
Pretty women!
Blowing out their candles or combing out their hair
Even when they leave they still are there -
They're there.
** Sipping coffee
Here's to the ladies who lunch -
Everybody laugh.
Lounging in their caftans and planning a brunch,
On their own behalf.
Off to the gym
Then to a fitting,
Claiming they're fat
And looking grim, 'cause they've been sitting
Choosing a hat
I'll drink to that!
Here's to the girls who just watch
Aren't they the best!
When the get depressed, it's a bottle of scotch
Plus a little jest!
Another chance to disapprove
Another brilliant zinger
Another reason not to move
Another vodka stinger
I'll drink to that!
Here's to the girls who play wife
Aren't they too much!
Keeping house but clutching a copy of "Life"
Just to keep in touch
The ones who follow the rules
And meet themselves at the schools
Too busy to know that they're fools
Aren't they a gem!
I'll drink to them!
Let's all drink to
* Pretty women, fascinating
How they make a man sing
** Here's to the girls on the go,
Everybody tries
Look into their eyes
And you'll see what they know,
Everybody dies
A toast to that invincible bunch
The dinosaurs surviving the crunch
Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch
Everybody rise, Everybody rise
* Pretty women at the mirrors
In their gardens
On committees, telephoning,
Window shopping, table hopping
Pretty women giving parties
Never stopping
Gossip swapping, capsule popping
** Everybody rise,
Everybody rise, Everybody rise-
rise-rise-rise
Pretty women, rise!
