I Am An Ordinary Man(Live)

作詞：Alan Jay Lerner
作曲：Frederick Loewe

I'm an ordinary man
Who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance
To live exactly as he likes and do precisely what he wants
An average man am I of no eccentric whim
Who likes to live his life free of strife
Doing whatever he thinks is best for him
Just an ordinary man

But let a woman in your life
And your serenity is through

She'll redecorate your home from the cellar to the dome
Then get on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you

Oh let a woman in your life and you're up against a wall
Make a plan and you will find she has something else in mind
And so rather than do either you do something neither likes at all

You want to talk of keats or milton
She only wants to talk of love

You go to see a play or ballet
And spend it searching for her glove

Oh let a woman in your life
And you invite eternal strife

Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands

I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling
Than to ever let a woman in my life

I'm a very gentle man
Even-tempered and good-natured
Who you never hear complain

Who has the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein
A patient man am I down to my fingertips
The sort who never would never could
Let an insulting remark escape his lips

Just a very gentle man

But let a woman in your life and patience hasn't got a chance
She will ask you for advice your reply will be concise
And she'll listen very nicely
Then go out and do precisely what she wants

You are a man of grace and polish who never spoke above a hush
Now all at once you're using language that would make a sailor blush

Let a woman in your life and you're plunging in a knife

Let those others of my sex
Tie the knots around their necks

I prefer new edition of the spanish inquisition
Than to ever let a woman in my life

I'm a quiet living man
Who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room
Who likes the atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb
A pensive man am I of philosophical joys
Who likes to meditate contemplate
Free from humanity's mad inhuman noise

Just a quiet living man

But let a woman in your life
And patience had to get a chance
In a line that never ends comes an army of her friends
Come to jabber and to chatter
And to tell her what the matter is with you
She'll have a booming boisterous family
Who will descend on you en mass
She'll have a large wagnerian mother
With a voice that shatters glass
Oh let a woman in your life
Oh let a woman in your life
Oh let a woman in your life

I shall never let a woman in my life