Barbra Streisand

Songwriter: Jerry Herman

1.prologue - call on dolly
Orchestra

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!

Barbra Streisand is an Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Broadway legend, film star, movie director and one of the biggest-selling recording artists of all time - a staggering amount of accomplishments for someone whose mother insisted she not to go into show business.

By the time she was sixteen, she’d graduated high school and was living on her own in Manhattan. After winning a talent contest at a gay bar on West 9th Street, Streisand’s ‘spellbinding’ voice quickly became popular at New York clubs and in Broadway shows. After appearances on a number of popular television shows including The Tonight Show, Streisand signed with Columbia Records and released several top 10 albums in the 1960s, scoring two US top 40 hits with “People” and “Second Hand Rose”.

Her success as a recording artist continued through the 1970s with several more gold/platinum-certified albums and four US “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, “No More Tears”, the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were”, and the Academy Award-winning “Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)”. The 1980s would begin with Streisand’s biggest-selling release of her career Guilty, a collaborative effort with BeeGees member Barry Gibb. It topped the albums chart in several countries and as did its lead single “Woman In Love”.

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Hello, Dolly! (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)