Marry the Man Today Lyrics

Adelaide: At Wannamaker's and Saks and Kleins
          A lesson I've been taught
          You can't get alterations on a dress you haven't bought

Sarah:    At any vegetable market
          From Borneo to Nome
          You mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home

Adelaide: You simply gotta gamble

Sarah:    You get no guarantee

Adelaide: Now doesn't that kinda apply to you and I?

Sarah:    ...You and me

Adelaide: Whatever.
          Why not?

Sarah:    Why not what?

Adelaide: Marry the man today
          Trouble though he may be
          Much as he likes to play
          Crazy and wild and free

Both:     Marry the man today
          Rather than sigh in sorrow

Adelaide: Marry the man today and change his ways tomorrow

Sarah:    Marry the man today
Adelaide:                 --Marry the man today

Sarah:    Maybe he's leaving town
Adelaide:                  --Maybe he's leaving town

Sarah:    Don't let him get away
Adelaide:                   --Don't let him get away

Sarah:    Hurry and track him down!
Adelaide:                    --and counterattack him

Both:     And marry the man today
          Give him the girlish laughter

Sarah:    Give him your hand today 
          And save the fist for after

Adelaide: Slowly introduce him to the better things
          Respectable, conservative, and clean

Sarah:    Reader's Digest

Adelaide: Guy Lombardo

Sarah:    Roger's Peet

Adelaide: Golf!

Sarah:    Galoshes!

Adelaide: Ovaltine!

Both:     But marry the man today
          Handle it meek and gently

Adelaide: Marry the man today and train him subsequently

Sarah:    Carefully expose him to domestic life
          And if he ever tries to stray from you
          Have a pot-roast

Adelaide: Have a headache

Sarah:    Have a baby...

Adelaide: Have two!

Sarah:    Six!

Adelaide: Nine!

Sarah:    Stop!

Both:     Marry the man today
          Rather than sigh in sorrow 
          Marry the man today 

Sarah:    And change his ways

Adelaide: And change his ways

Sarah:    And change his ways  

Adelaide: And change his ways

Sarah:    And change his ways

Both:     Tomorrow!