Adelaide's Lament [From Guys and Dolls][Live]

You can give her a shot for whatever she's got but it just won't work

React with psychosomatic symptoms difficult to endure
Then they get off at Saratoga for the fourteenth time
If she's tired of getting the fish-eye from the hotel clerk

Well a person can develop La grippe, La grippe, La post nasal drip
A person can develop a cold
A person can develop a cough
With the wheezes and the sneezes and a sinus that's really a pip
Just from stalling and stalling and stalling the wedding trip
You can feed her all day with the Vitamin A and the Bromo Fizz
Shows a neurotic tendency see note
A person can develop a cough and further more

Affecting the upper respiratory tract

When they get on a train for Niagara and she can hear church bells chime
You can spray her wherever you figure the streptococci lurk

From a lack of community property and a feeling she's getting too old
If she's getting a kind of name for herself and the name ain't his
The compartment is air conditioned and the mood sublime
In other words, just from waiting around for that little band of gold
The female remaining single just in the legal sense
Note Chronic organic syndromes toxic and hyper tense
In other words, just from worrying whether the wedding is on or off
A person can develop a cold
But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is
A person can develop La grippe
Involving the eye, the ear and the nose and throat