The Sondheim Lyrics Chain

[Bobster]

Still I'll stick it till
I'm on a bill all over Times Square!
Some day maybe
If I stick it long enough
I can get to strut my stuff

[scenicdesign71]

There's a lot that's at stake --
But you've stalled long enough,
'Cause you're still standing stuck
In the stuff on the steps.

Better run along home
And avoid the collision...

[KathyB]

From the way that people
Keep avoiding—
No you don't!
Heaven knows I try, sir

[MartinG]

Sweet Polly Plunkett lay in the grass
Turned her eyes heavenward, sighing
"I am a lass who alas loves a lad
Who alas has a lass in Canterbury
'Tis a row dow diddle dow day..."

[KathyB]

A pinch and a diddle
In the middle of what passes by,
It's a very short road from the pinch and the punch
To the paunch and the pouch and the pension,
It's a very short road to the ten-thousandth lunch
And the belch and the grouch and the sigh.

[MartinG]

One thousand whims to which I give in
Since her smallest tear turns me ashen.

[Bobster]

Love, I hear, makes you blush and turns you ashen
You try to speak with passion, and squeak...
I hear...
Love, they say, makes you pine away
But you pine away with an idiotic grin!
I pine, I blush, I squeak, I squawk
Today I woke too weak to walk

[Leighton]

And ladies, my lord, are weak

Ladies and their sensitivities, my lord!
Have a fragile sensibility
When a girl's emergent

[MartinG]

  This is driving me mad...

[Vera Charles]

This is driving me mad...

I was sure it would be somewhere in Passion, but can't find it ... yet.

[MartinG]

😞

[Chris L]

To repost Leighton's current lyric:

And ladies, my lord, are weak

Ladies and their sensitivities, my lord!
Have a fragile sensibility
When a girl's emergent

[MartinG]

Still racking my brains... 

[MartinG]

Well, played through every soundtrack while doing weekend stuff over the past couple of days hoping for a memory jog and drawn a total blank. 

May need a teeny clue here @Leighton.

[Vera Charles]

Well, played through every soundtrack while doing weekend stuff over the past couple of days hoping for a memory jog and drawn a total blank. 

May need a teeny clue here @Leighton.

I've been through most of the lyrics, too. Only ones I haven't looked at properly are Pacific Overtures and Anyone Can Whistle (and a chunk of Merrily ...) so I reckon it must be in there somewhere. 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️