"Just Leave Everything To Me - Prologue - Call On Dolly"

   
[Chorus:]
Call on Dolly!
If your neighbour needs a new romance
Just name that kind of man your sister wants
And she'll snatch them up
Don't forget to bring your maiden aunts and
She'll match 'em up.
Call on
[Dolly:]
Missus Dolly!

[Chorus:]
She's the one the spinsters recomend
She even find a lovely bride

Call on Dolly!
[Fade out]

[Dolly:]
I have always been a woman who arranges things,
for the pleasure--and the profit--it derives.
I have always been a woman who arranges things,
like furniture and daffodils and lives.

If you want your sister courted, brother wed, or cheese imported:
Just leave everything to me.
If you want your roof inspected, eyebrows tweezed, or bills collected:
Just leave everything to me.
If you want your daughter dated, or some marriage consummated,
for a rather modest fee.
If you want a husband spotted, boyfriend traced, or chicken potted:
I'll arrange for making all arrangements
Just leave everything to me.

If you want your ego bolstered, muscles toned, or chair upholstered:
Just leave everything to me.
Charming social introductions, expert mandolin instructions:
Just leave everything to me.
If you want your culture rounded, French improved, or torso pounded:
With a ten year guarantee.
If you want a birth recorded, collies bred, or kittens ported:
I'll proceed to plan the whole procedure
Just leave everything to me.

([Mr. Sullivan:] Where to, Dolly?
[Dolly:] Yonkers, New York, to handle a highly personal matter for
Mr. Horace Vandergelder, the well-known, unmarried, half-a-millionaire.
[Mr. Sullivan:] Gonna marry him yourself, Dolly?
[Dolly:] Why, Mr. Sullivan, whatever put such a preposterous idea into my head--your head!)

If you want a law abolished, jury swayed, or toenails polished:
Just leave everything to me.
If you want your liver tested, glasses made, cash invested:
Just leave everything to me.
If you want your children coddled, corsets pulled, or furs remodeled,
or some nice, fresh fricassee.
If you want your bustle shifted, wedding planned, or bosom lifted--
Don't be ashamed girls,
Life is full of secrets, and I keep 'em!

I'll discretely use my own discretion
I'll arrange for making all arrangements
I'll proceed to plan the whole procedure
Just leave everything to me!

"It Takes A Woman"

   
[Vandergelder:]
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
Cornelius, Barnaby, & 2 customers:
O yes it takes a woman
A fragile woman
To bring you the sweet things in life

[Vandergelder:]
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

[All:]
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
God bless femininity

[Vandergelder:]
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
That womanly wife

O yes it takes a woman

[Vandergelder:]
A husky woman

[Vandergelder, Cornelius, & Barnaby:]
To bring you the sweet things in life!

[All:]
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.

"It Takes A Woman (Reprise)"

   
[Dolly:]
It takes a woman to quietly plan
To take him, to change him to her kind of man
And to gently lead him
Where fortune can find him
And not let him know that the power behind
Was that dainty woman
That fragile woman, that sweetheart,
That mistress, that wife...
Mmm uhm mmm
Mmm uhm mmm mmm mmm
dah dah dah dah dah dah dah
Dah daaaaaaaaaaaaah...

"Put On Your Sunday Clothes"

   
[Cornelius:]
Out there
There's a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There's a slick town, Barnaby
Out there
Full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby...
Put on your Sunday clothes,
There's lots of world out there
Get out the brillantine and dime cigars
We're gonna find adventure in the evening air
Girls in white in a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars!
Put on your Sunday clothes, we're gonna ride through town
In one of those new horsedrawn open cars
[Cornelius & Barnaby:]
We'll see the shows at Delmonicos
And we'll close the town in a whirl
And we won't come until we've kissed a girl!

[Dolly:]
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out
Strut down the street and have your picture took
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about
That Sunday shine is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!

Dolly & Ambrose:
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes

[Dolly, Ambrose, Cornelius, & Barnaby:]
Get out your feathers, your patent leathers
Your beads and buckles and bows
For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday...
No Monday in your Sunday...
No Monday in your Sunday clothes!

[Townspeople, All:]
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out
Strut down the street and have your picture took

[Dolly, Townspeople, All:]
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about
That Sunday shine is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
[Women:]
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile
[All:]
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes
Get out your feathers
Your patent leathers
Your beads and buckles and bows
For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!

[Dance interlude]

[Children:]
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out
Strut down the street and have your picture took

[Women:]
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about

[Townspeople, All:]
That Sunday shine is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your bowler brim the world's a simple song
A lovely lilt that makes you tilt your nose
Get out your slickers, your flannel knickers
Your red suspenders and hose
For there's no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!

[Dolly:]
Ermengarde keep smiling no man wants some little meaning!
Ambrose do a turn, let me see!
Mr.Hackl, Mr.Tucker don't forget Irene and Minnie,
Just forget you ever heard a word from me!
All Aboard!

[Townspeople:]
All Aboard!

[Dolly:]
All Aboard!

[Townspeople:]
All Aboard!

[Dolly:]
Aboaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!

[All:]
All Aboard! All Aboard! All Aboard! All Aboard!

Put on your Sunday clothes there's lots of world out there
Put on your silk cravat and patent shoes
We're gonna find adventure in the evening air

[Dolly:]
To town we'll trot to a smokey spot
Where the girls are hot as a fuse!

[All:]
WOW

[All:]
Put on your silk high hat and at the turned up cuff
We'll wear a hand made gray suede buttoned glove

[Dolly:]
We wanna take New York by Storm!

[All:]
We'll join the Astors
At Tony Pastor's
And this I'm positive of
That we won't come home
No we won't come home
No we won't come home until we fall in love!

"Ribbons Down My Back"

   
[Irene Molly:]
I'll be wearing ribbons down my back this summer
Blue & Green and streaming in the yellow sky
So if someone special comes my way this summer
He might notice me passing by
And so I'll try to make it easier to find me
In the silliness of July
Because a breeze might stir a rainbow up behind me
That might happen to catch the gentleman's eye
And he might smile and take me by the hand
This summer
Making me recall how lovely love can be
And so I will proudly wear
Ribbons down my back
Shining in my hair
That he might notice me!

"Dancing"

   
[Dolly speaking]:
Put your hand on her waist and stand
With her right in your left hand
And one and one two three, ah! one two three,
Oh, no, this one...and one two three
one two three

[Cornelius speaking]:
Look I'm dancing!
Well, I was.

[Dolly speaking]:
Of course you were, Mr. Hackl!
[singing]
Take the someone whose arms you're in
Hold onto her tight and spin
And one two three, one two three, one two three

[Cornelius:]
Look, I'm dancing!

[Dolly:]
Come here.
Turn around and turn around, try floating through the air
Can't you be a little more aesthetic?

[Cornelius:]
Don't you think my dancing has a polish and a flair?

[Dolly:]
The word I think I'd use is athletic!

[Cornelius:]
Well my heart is about to burst
My head is about to pop
And now that I'm dancing who cares if I ever stop!

[Dolly:]
That's wonderful, Mr. Hackl!

[Cornelius:]
...Look, everybody! I, Cornelius Hackl...Sport
...I'm dancing!

[Dolly:]
You're next, Mr. Tucker!
Glide and step and then step and glide

[Barnaby:]
And everyone stand aside!

[Dolly:]
Oh, not yet Mr. Tucker! One, two, three...
One, two, three, ah!

Cornelius
Look, he's dancing!
Dolly
I think he's phenomenal!
You could learn to polka if you worked a week or so
Or the tango filled with passion seething

[Barnaby:]
I might join the chorus of the castle garden show

[Dolly:]
Whatever you do, Mr. Tucker, kee-keep breathing

[All three:]
For my heart is about to burst
My head is about to pop
And now that we're dancing who cares if we ever stop!

[All:]
Make the music weave a spell
Whirl away your worry
Things look almost twice as well
When you're slightly blurry
As around and around you go
Your spirits will hit the top
And now that we're dancing
Who cares if we ever stop
One-two-three
One-two-three
One-two
And now that we're dancing
Who cares if we ever stop!

"Before The Parade Passes By"

   
Dolly
Before the parade passes by
Before it goes on, and only I'm left
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta get in step while there's still time left
I'm ready to move out in front
Life without life has no reason or rhyme left
With the rest of them
With the best of them
I wanna hold my head up high
I need got a goal again
I need got a drive again
I wanna feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by...
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta go and taste Saturday's high life
Before the parade passes by
I've gotta get some life back into my life
I'm ready to move out in front
I've had enough of just passing by life
With the rest of them
With the best of them
I can hold my head up high
For I've got a goal again
I've got a drive again
I wanna feel my heart coming alive again
Before the parade passes by
[Interlude]

[All:]
When the parade passes by
Listen and hear that brass harmony growing
When the parade passes by
Pardon me if my old spirit is showing
All of those lights over there
Seem to be telling me where I'm going

[Dolly:]
When the whistles blow
And the cymbals crash
And the sparklers light the sky
I'm gonna raise the roof
I'm gonna carry on
Give me an old trombone
Give me an old baton
Before the parade passes by!

"Elegance"

   
[Cornelius & Barnaby:]
Yes, New York
It's really us
Barnaby and Cornelius
[Mrs. Molloy & Minnie:]
All the guests of Mr. Hackl are
Feelin' great and look spectacular

[All:]
What a knack
There is to that
Acting like a born aristocrat
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

[Cornelius:]
All who are
Well-bred agree
Minnie Fay
Has pedigree

[Mrs. Molloy:]
Exercise your wildest whims tonight
We are out with diamond Jims tonight

[Minnie:]
Could they be
Misleading us?

[Cornelius & Barnaby:]
Silver spoons were used for feeding us

[All:]
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off

[dance interlude]

[All:]
Middle class
Don't speak of it
Savoir Faire
We reek of it
Some were born with rags and patches but
We use dollar bills for matches and

[Minnie:]
Vanderbilt
Kowtows to us

[Cornelius:]
J.P. Morgan scrapes and bows to us

[All:]
We've got elegance
We were born with elegance

[Barnaby:]
I beheave like Walter Wally
When the streets are full of mud

[Mrs. Molloy:]
And the bluest Huckelberry isn't bluer than my blood

[Minnie:]
Have you noticed when I hold my cup
The saucer never moves

[Cornelius:]
And the way I keep my pinky up
Indubitably proves that

[All:]
We got elegance
We got built in elegance
And with elegance...elegance...
Elegance...elegance...elegance
We'll carry it off!

[All:]
We got elegance
If you ain't got elegance
You can never ever carry it off
We got Elegance...

"Love Is Only Love"

   
[Dolly:]
Horace Vandergelder, Mrs. Horace Vandergelder
Just leave ev'rything to me
Though it wont be like the first time
How can it be like the first time?
But Why does it have to be?
Don't look for shooting stars
For love is only love
You touch and still you touch the proud
Don't listen for those bells
For love is only love
And if it's love you've found
Your heart won't hear a sound
And you hold his hand
You only hold his hand
The violins are all a bluff
But if you're really wise
The silence of his eyes
Will tell you
Love is only love
And it's wonderful enough
Without the shooting star
Without the sounds of bells
Without the violins
Love is wonderful enough!

"Hello, Dolly!"

   
[Dolly:]
Hello, Rudy
Well, Hello Harry
It's so nice to be back home where I belong
You are looking swell, Manny
I can tell, Danny
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong
I feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of my old fav'rite songs from 'way back when
So, bridge that gap, fellas
Find me an empty lap, fellas
Dolly'll never go away again

[Waiters:]
Hello, Dolly,
Well Hello, Dolly,
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong.
We feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of your old fav'rite songs from 'way back when, so...

[Dolly:]
Here's my hat fellas
I'm stayin' where I'm at, fellas

[Waiters:]
Promise you'll never go away again

[Dolly:]
I went away from the lights of fourteenth street
And into my personal haze
But now that I'm back in the lights of 14th Street
Tomorrow will be brighter than the good old days

[Waiters:]
Those good old days

[Dolly:]
Tell 'em to be sweet!

[Waiters:]
Hello, Well Hello Dolly!
Well hello, hey look there's Dolly!

[Dolly:]
Glad to see you Hank, let's thank my lucky star

[Waiters:]
Your lucky star

[Dolly:]
You're lookin' great, Stanley
Lose some weight, I think, I think you did,Stanley?
Dolly's overjoyed and overwhelmed and over par

[Waiters:]
I hear the ice tinkle

[Dolly:]
Do you hear the ice tinkle

[Waiters:]
See the lights twinkle

[Dolly:]
Can you see the lights twinkle

[Waiters:]
And you still get glances from us handsome men
So...

[Dolly:]
Look at you all, you're all so handsome
Golly gee, fellas
Find me a vacant knee, fellas

[Waiters:]
Dolly'll never go away again

(A Dance follows Dolly and the waiters)

[Louis:]
Well, hello

[Dolly:]
Look who's here!

[Louis:]
Dolly, this is Louis

[Dolly:]
Hello, Louis!

[Louis:]
Dolly,
It's so nice to have you back where you belong

[Dolly:]
I am so glad to be back!

[Louis:]
Are you lookin' swell,

[Dolly:]
Thank you, Louis!

[Louis:]
Dolly!
I can tell,

[Dolly:]
Does it show?

[Louis:]
Dolly!
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still

[Both:]
Uhm...goin' strong

[Louis:]
I feel the room swayin'

[Dolly:]
Pee pee pah dah pee pah

[Louis:]
And the band's playin'

[Dolly:]
pah pah pah dee pah dee pah pah

[Louis:]
One of our old favorite songs from way back when, so!

[Dolly:]
pah pah pah pah pah pah pah
I remember it so, you're my favorite!

[Louis:]
Show some snap, find her an empty lap, yeah!

[Dolly:]
Yeahuuhm!

[Both:]
Dolly'll never go away again...

[Waiters:]
Well, well Hello, Dolly,
Well, Hello, Dolly,
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly,(wow)
We can tell, Dolly, (wow)
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong.

[Waiters:]
I hear the ice tinkle

[Dolly:]
I hear it tinkle

[Waiters:]
See the lights twinkle

[Dolly:]
I see them twinkle

[Waiters:]
And you still get glances from us handsome men
So...

[Dolly:]
Mmmm, Wow wow wow, fellas

[Waiters:]
Hey, Yeah!

[Dolly:]
Look at the old girl now, fellas

[Waiters:]
Wow!

[Dolly & Waiters:]
Dolly'll never go away again.
Dolly'll never go away again.
Dolly'll never go away again.