Original Broadway Cast Recording - You Must Meet My Wife

She lightens my sadness,
She livens my days,
She bursts with a kind of madness
My well-ordered ways
My happiest mistake, the ache of my life
You must meet my wife
She bubbles with pleasure,
She glows with surprise,
Disrupts my accustomed leisure
And ruffles my ties
I don't know even now quite how it began
You must meet my wife, my Anne
One thousand whims to which I give in,
Since her smallest tear turns me ashen
I never dreamed that I could live in
So completely demented, contented a fashion
So sunlike, so winning,
So unlike a wife
I do think that I'm beginning
To show signs of life
Don't ask me how at my age one still can grow
If you met my wife, you'd know

Dear Fredrik,
I'm just longing to meet her
Sometime

She sparkles

How pleasant

She twinkles

How nice

Her youth is a sort of present

Whatever the price

The incandescentwhatthe

Light

of my life
You must meet my wife

Yes, I must I really must
Now

She flutters

How charming

She twitters

My word

She floats

Isn't that alarming
What is she, a bird

She makes me feel I'mwhat

A very old man

Yesno

No

But

I must meet your Gertrude

My Anne

SorryAnne

She loves my voice, my walk, my mustache,
The cigar, in fact, that I'm smoking
She'll watch me puff until it's just ash,
Then she'll save the cigar butt

Bizarre, but
You're joking

She dotes on
Your dimple

My snoring

How dear

The point is, she's really simple

Yes, that much seems clear

She gives me funny names

Like

Old Dry-as-Dust

Wouldn't she just

You must meet my wife

Yes, I must, yes, I must

A sea of whims that I submerge in,
Yet so loveable in repentance
Unfortunately still a virgin,
But you can't force a flower

Don't finish that sentence
She's monstrous

She's frightened

Unfeeling

Unversed
She'd strike you as unenlightened

No, I'd strike her first

Her reticence, her apprehension

Her crust

No

Yes

No

Fredrik

You must meet my wife

Let me get my hat and my knife

What was that

I must meet your wife

Yes, you must
Yes, I must

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