'It Takes a Woman' from HELLO DOLLY St. James High, Murrells Inlet SC
It Takes a Woman' from HELLO DOLLY St. James High, Murrells Inlet SC
Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955
Hello, Dolly! is the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi's efforts to marry Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half-a-millionaire, and send his money circulating among the people like rainwater the way her late husband, Ephraim Levi, taught her.
It was, after all, based on the incredibly successful stage musical, which in itself was based on Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, about Dolly Levi, a young New York City matchmaker who is hired by Horace Vandergelder, a Yonkers “half-millionaire” who is in need of someone to convince his niece not to marry an artist.
It takes a woman all powdered and pink
To joyously clean out the drain in the sink
And it takes an angel with long golden lashes
And soft dresden fingers
For dumping the ashes
Yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
O yes it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life
The frail young maiden who's constantly there
For washing and blueing and shoeing the mare
And it takes a female for setting the table
And weaving the Guernsey
And cleaning the stable
O yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
O yes it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life
And so she'll work until infinity
Three cheers for femininity
Rah Rah Rah... Rah Rah Rah
F. E. M. I. T. Y
Get out of here!
And in the winter she'll shovel the ice
And lovingly set out the traps for the mice
She's a joy and treasure for practically speaking
To whom can you turn when the plumbing is leaking?
Vandergelder, Cornelius, & Barnaby:
To that dainty woman
That fragile woman
That sweetheart, that mistress, that wife
O yes it takes a woman
A husky woman
Vandergelder, Cornelius, & Barnaby:
To bring you the sweet things in life!
O Yes it takes a woman
A dainty woman
A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife
O yes it takes a woman, a fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life
Source: Musixmatch