Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
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What in all of heaven could've
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C
After such a triumph as
the ball?
Dm
What could've depressed
her?
What could've possessed her?
G
I cannot understand the wretch
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D
at all!
Interlude 1
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D
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Verse 2
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A
that's all there is to that
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Their heads are full of cotton,
D
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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D
Dm
Bb
G
Verse 3
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D
Pickering, why can't a wo
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man be more like a man?
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G
Hmm?
Yes...
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C
Why can't a woman be
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Bm
so thoroughly square
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G
Eternally noble,
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Who, when you win,
D
will always give your back a pat
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D
Why can't a woman be like that?
G
Why does everyone do what the
Verse 4
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others do?
Can't a woman learn to
D
Eb
use her head?
C
Why do they do everything their
mothers do?
E
A
Why don't they grow up like their
father instead?
Verse 5
Men are so pleasant,
A
Bm
so easy to please
G
Whenever you're with them,
Em
you're always at ease
C
Would you be slighted if I
Verse 6
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D
didn't speak for hours?
Of course not!
C
Would you be livid if I
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D
had a drink or two?
Nonsense!
E
Would you be wounded if I
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B
never sent you flowers?
Never!
D
A
D
Well, why can't a woman be like you?
Verse 7
G
One man in a million may shout a bit
Now and then,
D
A
Eb
there's one with slight de fects
whose truthfulness you doubt a bit
E
But by and large we are
C
Why can't a woman behave like a
Verse 8
D
man?
Bm
F#
D
Bm
Men are so friendly, good natured and kind
D
G
Em
A better companion you never will find
Verse 9
C
If I were hours late for dinner,
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D
would you bellow?
Of course not!
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C
A
If I forgot your silly birthday,
Nonsense!
E
Would you complain if I took
A
B
out another fellow?!
Never!
D
Well, why can't a woman
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D
be like us?!
Verse 10
D
Mrs. Pearce, you're a wo man...
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C
Why can't a woman be
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A
F#
Bm
Men are so decent, such regular chaps
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G
Ready to help you through
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G#dim
D
Ready to buck you up whenever
you are glum
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D
Why can't a woman be a chum?
G
Why is thinking something women
Verse 11
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never do?
D
Eb
Why is logic never even tried?
C
Straightening up their hair
is all they ever do
Why don't they straighten
A
up the mess that's inside?
E
A
Why can't a woman
Verse 12
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be
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Bm
If I was a woman who'd been to a ball,
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Been hailed as a princess
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C
Would I start weeping like a
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bathtub overflowing?
C
And carry on as if my home
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D
were in a tree?
E
Would I run off and never tell
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D
Why can't a woman be like me?
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