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1.Bless Your Beautiful Hide
2.Wonderful Day
3.One Man
4.Goin' Courting
5.Love Never Goes Away
6.Sobbin' Women
7.A Woman Ought To Know Her Place
8.We Gotta Make It Through The Winter
9.We Gotta Make It
Through The Winter (Reprise)
10.A Woman Ought To Know Her Place (Reprise)
11.Glad That You Were Born
12.Love Never
Goes Away (Reprise)
13.Wonderful Day (Reprise)
1.Bless Your Beautiful Hide
ADAM
Bless
your beautiful hide,
Bless your beautiful hide.
Bless your beautiful hide
Wherever you may be.
We ain't met yet
But
I'm a willin' to bet
You're the gal for me.
Bless your beautiful hide
You're just as good as lost.
I don't know
your name
But I'm a-stakin' my claim
Lest your eyes is crossed.
Oh, I'd swap my gun 'n' I'd swap my mule
Tho'
whoever took it would be one big fool.
Or pay your way thru cookin' school.
If 'n you would say I do.
Bless your
beautiful hide
Prepare to bend your knee.
And take that vow
Cause I'm tellin' you now,
You're the gal for me.
Pretty
and trim but kinda slim.
Heavenly eyes but oh that size,
She's gotta be right to be the bride for me.
Bless her beautiful
hide
Wherever she may be.
Bless your beautiful hide
Wherever you may be.
We ain't met yet but I'm a willin' to
bet
You're the gal for me.
2.Wonderful Day
MILLY
Could have married long
ago
I said "no" when fellers came proposing.
Bankers, teachers, preachers, too
Were among the men I could have chosen.
Kept
my feet on the ground,
Now I know where I'm bound.
He came out of nowhere,
Walkin' through the door,
Lookin' straight
my way.
Wonderful, wonderful day.
He saw someone touch me
And he tossed him out like a bale of hay.
Wonderful,
wonderful day.
Can't wait til I'm with him
In our cabin just for two.
Sheltered and secluded
Only trees near us
No
one hearin' us.
And so you'll forgive me.
If I simply throw my chest and say:
"Wonderful, wonderful day."
LIZA,
MARTHA, RUTH
Think of the suitable men in this town
When you're in those mountains there's no comin' down.
MILLY
He
said there's a big spread
It's a hilltop haven where we will stay.
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
You can't mean it,
You
ain't even seen it.
MILLY
Wonderful, wonderful
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
You hardly know him,
He could mistreat
you.
Think of the wolves and the bears that could eat you.
MILLY
How bad can the wolves be after
Wolves that
pinch me and grab my tray.
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
Stop the pastor, oh, disaster.
MILLY
Wonderful, wonderful
day.
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
Least ways let him court you
Make him come back in the spring.
Can this man support
you?
Milly think is he a drifter,
A drinking man?
MILLY
Full steam heading upstream
If I sink or swim I
believe in him
Wonderful, wonderful
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
Please don't be hurried
MILLY
Wonderful, wonderful
LIZA,
MARTHA, RUTH
Milly we're worried
MILLY
Wonderful, wonderful
LIZA, MARTHA, RUTH
Milly resist him.
MILLY
It's
too late,
It's too late,
It's too late,
I've already kissed him!
Beautiful, glorious, heavenly, marvelous,
Wonderful,
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
Wonderful, wonderful day!
3.One Man
MILLY
It's
enough to make you bitter
But I've never been a quitter
And I'm not nearly done.
Didn't marry seven brothers,
Didn't
marry seven brothers.
Only married one.
I want one man to be mine alone
Crowds of strangers are all I've known.
One
man to be frank and free with
One vow to be tied to
Someone willing to love me honestly.
Don't want to be lied to,
I
want one man who can show he cares
For more than cookin' and dusted chairs.
One man who respects my thinking,
Two
promises planted firmly rooted
We'll share our feelings and not take them for granted.
I walked into love and I took
a blow,
But I'll never break.
I'm holding my ground 'cause deep down I know
It's not a mistake, it's not a mistake,
it's not a mistake!
I want one man and I'll face the fight
Won't give in 'til it works out right.
Things worth havin'
don't come easy,
I'll finish what I began.
I know this is it, I'm not gonna quit
I've found that one man.
Things
worth havin' don't come easy,
I'll finish what I began.
I know this is it, I'm not gonna quit
I've found that one
man.
I know this is it, they won't make quit
I've found that one man.
4.Goin' Courting
MILLY
Goin'
courtin', goin' courtin'
Oh it sets your senses in a whirl.
Goin' courtin', goin' courtin'
Dudin' up to go and see
your gal.
Oh, it's fun to hunt and shoot a gun,
Or to catch a rabbit on the run
But you'll find it's twice as sportin'
goin' courtin'.
Now there's lots o' things you gotta know
Be sure the parlor light is low
Y' sidle up and squeeze
her hand
Let me tell you fella's that is grand.
You hem and haw a little while
She gives you kinda half a smile.
You
cuddle up she moves away
Then the strategy comes into play.
Goin' courtin', goin' courtin'
If you find it hard to
break the ice
Goin' courtin', goin' courtin'
Here's a little feminine advice.
Roll your eyes and heave a little sigh.
Grunt
and groan like you're about to die.
That is what's known as emotin' goin' courtin'!
BENJAMIN
(spoken)
How
'bout parkin parlor's darkin'
And you're longing for a fond embrace
DANIEL
(spoken)
How 'bout pettin'
How
'bout sofa settin'
GIDEON
(spoken)
Suppose she up and slaps your face
MILLY
(spoken)
Just remember
"blessed are the meek"
(sung)
Don't forget to turn the other cheek,
Soon you'll both be larkin',
Goin' sparkin'?
Goin'
dancin'?
BOYS
Goin' dancin'?
MILLY
At a fancy ball or minuet.
Goin' dancin',
You'll impress her
with your etiquette.
FRANK
(spoken)
You mean that men are learnin' how to dance?
MILLY
Yes, it came
direct from Paris, France
It'll help with your romancin' goin' dancin'.
BROTHERS
Goin' courtin', goin' courtin'
Oh,
it sees your senses in a whirl
Goin' courtin', goin' courtin'
Duddin' up to go and see your girl.
Oh it's fun to
shoot a gun
Or to catch a rabbit on the run,
But you'll find it's twice as sportin'
Goin' courtin'.
MILLY
(spoken)
Keep
your fishin'
BROTHERS
(spoken)
And fussin'
MILLY
(spoken)
And fightin'
BROTHERS
(spoken)
And
cussin'
ALL
(spoken)
And trappin'
(sung)
'Cause we're goin' courtin'!
5.Love
Never Goes Away
ADAM
Look at you,
Like a lost little calf
I don't mean to laugh or tease you.
Where's
your sense there are so many girls
With long golden curls to please you.
Love comes and goes away,
You're hurtin'
bad tonight.
Oh, love comes and goes away,
I'm older ain't I always led you right.
GIDEON
Alice isn't just
any girl.
ADAM
I know that love's not a game.
GIDEON
Alice isn't just any girl.
ADAM
At heart
ev'ry girl's the same,
Ev'ry girl's the same.
GIDEON
Not her, not her.
ADAM
Love comes and goes away
You're
hurtin' bad tonight.
Oh love comes and goes away
I'm older ain't I always led you right?
MILLY
I could run
but the feeling is there.
No place anywhere can hide me,
I'm in love and I don't have a chance
I can't stop that
voice inside me.
Love never goes away,
It plays on like a song.
Oh, love never goes away,
He holds me and I know
where I belong.
GIDEON
Alice isn't just any girl
I know that love's not a game.
MILLY
Adam isn't any
man
ADAM
At heart ev'ry girl's the same,
They are all the same
GIDEON
Not her, not her
MILLY
Not
him, not him
ADAM
He'll see, he'll see
MILLY ADAM GIDEON
Love never goes away It goes away I love Alice
It
plays on like a song. Comes and goes away. This feeling
Can't be wrong.
Oh love never goes away I love Alice
You
can't get free In time you'll see You can't get free
When you're in love You'll look at love When you're in love
All
Like
me!
6.Sobbin' Women
ADAM
Tell ya 'bout them sobbin' women
Who lived in
the Roman days.
It seems that they all went swimmin'
While their men was off to graze.
Well, a Roman troop was ridin'
by
And saw them in their "me oh my",
So they took 'em all back home to dry.
Least that's what Plutarch says.
Oh
yes!
Them a woman was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
Fit to be tied.
Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that
riotous ride.
Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don't forget that
when you're takin' a bride.
Sobbin' fit to be tied
From that riotous ride!
They never did return their plunder
The
victor gets all the loot.
They carried them home, by thunder,
To rotundas small but cute.
And you've never seens
so,
They tell me, such downright domesticity.
With a Roman baby on each knee
Named "Claudius" and "Brute"
SIX
BROTHERS
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin', passin' them nights.
ADAM
While the Romans was goin' out
hobbin', nobbin'
Startin' up fights.
They kept occupied by sewin' lots of little old togas
For them tots and sayin'
"someday women folk'll have rights."
GIDEON
Passin' all o' them nights.
ADAM
Just sewin'!
While the
Romans had fights.
CALEB
"Hey listen to this"
Now when their men folk went to fetch 'em
Them women would not
be fetched.
It seems them Romans ketch 'em
That their lady friends stay ketched.
ADAM
Now let this be because
it's true,
A lesson to the likes of you,
Treat 'em rough like them there Romans do
Or else they'll think you're tetched.
SIX
BROTHERS
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin',
Sobbin' buckets of tears
On account o' old dobbin',
Dobbin'
really rattled their ears.
Oh they acted angry and annoyed
GIDEON
But secretly they was overjoyed
ADAM
You
must recall that when corralin' your streets
BROTHERS
Oh, oh, oh, oh them poe little dears.
SIX BROTHERS
ADAM
Oh yes
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin' Oh yeah
Weepin' a ton Then sobbin' women
Just remember
what Robin, Robin, Robin Oh yeah
Hood woulda done. Them sobbin women.
We'll be just like them three merry men
And
make 'em all merry once again.
ADAM
And though they'll be a sobbin' for a while
ALL
Oh yes!
We're gonna
make them sobbin' women smile!
Townsfolk's Lament
PREACHER, BIXBY, PERKINS
Protect
the virtue of our lambs
Don't lead them to the slaughter.
TOWNSMEN
Slaughter the snakes.
Tear 'em to apart.
Batter
their bones.
Bash in their heads.
While they're at home
Asleep in their beds.
PREACHER, BIXBY, PERKINS
Lord,
sweet lord!
Keep our maidens pure as snow,
As pure as holy water.
TOWNSMEN
Shootin' em down.
They're gonna
fall.
Beatin' 'em up.
They're gonna crawl.
Burn 'em alive.
Murder them all.
Bustin' their butts, Bustin' their,
Bustin their,
Amen!
7.A Woman Ought To Know Her Place
ADAM
I'm leavin'
here I'm gettin' out
I won't have any woman takin' over.
She's gonna have to learn
I ain't no holy coddle she can
shove around.
No more tellin' me what I can do or think,
When to smoke when to cuss and what to drink.
Ever since
the wedding she's tried to hold the reins,
No one's puttin' me in chains.
A woman ought to know her place.
A place
she's had since time began.
A woman ought to know her place is behind her man
Is behind her man.
She's figurin' we
share a bed
So she can twist me round her little finger.
I've seen her try to change my brothers
But God she won't
change me.
The boys took what belonged to them they meant no harm.
She was wrong to throw me out it ain't her farm.
She
was smart and foxy full of woman's wiles
Foolin' me with girlish smiles.
A woman ought to know her place,
And give
her husband all she can.
When will Milly learn her place is behind her mind?
And after all I married her,
A waitress
with no living kin.
She thinks I'll beg on bended knee,
But when I don't come home
She'll see, she'll see.
A woman's
got to know her place.
Milly's got to learn her place
If she ever wants to take her place with me.
8.We
Gotta Make It Through The Winter
DANIEL
Lemme out, lemme out
Lemme just see her.
Lemme out, lemme
out
Out of this cage.
GIDEON
Stuck in a barn with cupid's cramp,
EPHRAIM
How can we live like this?
DANIEL
Why
don't we go and sample just one kiss.
CALEB
Lemme out, lemme out
Lemme get near her,
Gotta shout, gotta shout
Gotta
get free.
EPHRAIM
Didn't make plans to sleep with you
Cuddle up by your ear
Wanted to smell perfume and not
smell beer.
ALL
But we gotta make it through the winter
Or we won't get lovin' in the spring.
We gotta make
it make it through the winter
Or Millie says we won't get a doggone
Millie says we won't get a doggone
Millie says
we won't get a doggone thing.
BENJAMIN
I see Dorcas lyin' there in a siky gown
ALL
(spoken)
Gosh!
EPHRAIM
Bet
my Martha's in the tub soapin' herself down
ALL
(spoken)
Wow!
GIDEON
Did ya see how Alice danced never
seen such curves
ALL (except Gideon)
Yeah!
Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it,
You're gettin' on our nerves.
CALEB
Lemme
out, lemme out,
Lemme caress her
ALL
He'll caress her.
CALEB
Lemme go through the door fella's it's
war.
DANIEL
Gonna bust in and stake my claim
GIDEON
What am I man or mouse.
ALL
We should be
with our women in that house.
BENJAMIN
Lemme by, lemme by
Lemme get to her
ALL
He'll get to her.
DANIEL
Feelin'
bad
FRANK
Goin' mad
ALL
Goin' hog wild
DAN
Thought I'd be squeezin' someone soft
Somebody
soft and frail
Who woulda dreamed that she'd be big and male?
ALL
Oh!
We gotta make it through the winter
Or
we won't get lovin' in the spring.
We gotta make it through the winter
Or Milly says we won't get a doggone thing.
FRANK
Nothin'
would be half as nice as strokin' Sarah's hair
ALL
Yeah!
DAN
Touchin' Liza while her clothes are hangin'
on a chair.
ALL
Yeah!
CALEB
Ruth'll sigh and beg for more when we begin to pet.
ALL (except Caleb)
Yeah!
Stop
it, stop it, stop it, stop it
You got us in a sweat.
Yes!
We gotta make it through the winter
Or we won't get
lovin' in the spring.
We gotta make it through the winter
Or Milly says we won't get any
Milly says we won't get
any
Milly says not a doggone thing.
BENJAMIN, EPHRAIM, GIDEON
We gotta make it through the winter.
9.We
Gotta Make It Through The Winter (Reprise)
MILLY
You've got to make it through the winter
And hope
for some lovin' in the spring.
You've got to make it through the winter
The time'll come when church bells will start
to ring.
Just be patient 'til the spring.
GIRLS
'Til the spring, 'til the spring, 'til spring.
10.A
Woman Ought To Know Her Place (Reprise)
ADAM
Stayin' here I'm keepin' out
I won't have any woman
takin' over.
GIDEON
Milly needs you please come home.
ADAM
She's gonna have to learn
I ain't no Molly
Coodle
She can shove around.
GIDEON
She only wanted to reason with you.
ADAM
No more tellin' me what
I can do or think
GIDEON
Try to see it her way.
ADAM
When to smoke and when to cuss and what to drink.
ADAM
GIDEON
Ever since our weddin' Don't be stubborn and unbending
She' tried to hold the reins.
No woman's puttin' me
in chains. She's depending on you.
A woman ought to know her place Lovers should be sharin'
And give her husband all
she can. Stand together carin'
A woman ought to know her place
Is behind her man. Not behind him
GIDEON
But
beside him.
ADAM
Am I stubborn and unbending?
Is she really depending on me?
Can it be?
Is my brother right?
11.Glad
That You Were Born
MILLY
Through your eyes skies look brighter
Grass more green clouds are whiter.
When
you're close cares grow lighter,
I'm glad that you were born.
Through your eyes hills stretch higher.
When you smile
you inspire hearts to sing in a choir.
I'm glad that you were born.
Born to laugh, born to dream
Born to spread your
light.
Through your eyes I see clearer
You bring God so much nearer.
Life has grown so much dearer,
I'm glad that
you were...
ALL
Born to laugh, born to dream.
Born to spread your light.
MILLY
Through your eyes I
see clearer
You being God so much nearer.
Life has grown so much dearer
I'm glad that you were born.
12.Love
Never Goes Away (Reprise)
ADAM
Tried to run but the feeling is there,
No place anywhere could hide
me.
Here I am and I don't have a choice
I can't stop stop that voice inside me.
Love never goes away.
It plays
on like a song.
ADAM AND MILLY
Love never goes away
I hold you and I know where I belong.
13.Wonderful
Day (Reprise)
MILLY
You came out of nowhere
Walkin' through the door
Lookin' straight my way
Wonderful,
wonderful
ADAM
Milly, let's hurry
MILLY
Wonderful, wonderful
ADAM
Milly don't worry
MILLY
Wonderful,
wonderful
ADAM
Milly, resist me.
MILLY
It's too late, its too late,
You've already kissed me.
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