An Opening for a Princess Songtext

von Mary Rodgers

Dauntless: "Oh, I liked her!"
Larken: "So did I!"
Dauntless: "Why does ev'ry princess get the bird?"
Lady 1: "It's just absurd!"
Lady 2: "I never heard a test so difficult to pass."
Dauntless: "Alas, a lass is what I lack. I lack a lass, alas, alack!"
Knights: "Throughout the land no one may wed til Dauntless shares his marriage bed!"
Ladies: "Oh, the lonely spinster's life!"
All: "Go, and get the prince a royal wife!
"We have an opening for a princess, for a genuine certified princess!"
Ladies: "Tell us when you intend to end this dilemma we're in!"
Knights: "None of the ladies give a fig for living in sin!"
All: "We have an opening for a princess, for a beautiful bonifide princess!"
Ladies: Where's the dutiful knight who'll right all the wrong we've been done?"
Knights: "None of the ladies are havin' any fun..."
Ladies: "What to do?"
Knights: "What to do?"
Ladies: "What to do?"
Knights: "What to do?"
Ladies: "Pity the ladies-in-waiting!"
Knights: "Pity the gentlemen, too!"
Ladies: "Four!"
Knights: "Six!"
Ladies: "Eight, ten, eleven, twelve contenders in a row!"
Knights: "They came, they were tested..."
Ladies: "Then swifly requested to go for a princess, for a genuine certified princess.
Knights: Blow the trumpet! Sound the fife!"
Ladies: "Tell us when you intend to send us a girl who can pass!
Knights: "And get the prince a royal wife!"
Knights: "None of the ladies are having any..."
All: "No one is having any..."
All: "No one is getting any... younger!"
All: "And its been god knows how long since!"
All: "We have an opening for a princess whos' good enough, nice enough, sweet enough, smart enough, rich enough for our poor prince!"