Kiss Me Kate - Kiss Me, Kate Lyrics

Broadway production (1948)
Kiss Me Kate the musical - Kiss Me Kate Lyrics

FRED:
So, kiss me, Kate, thou lovely loon,
'Ere we start on our honeymoon.
So kiss me, Kate, darling devil devine,
For now thou shall ever be mine.

LILLI:
I'll never be thine!

FRED and CHORUS:
So, kiss me, Kate, (KATE: NO!) thou lovely loon, (KATE: NO!)
'Ere we start (KATE: NAY!) on our honeymoon. (KATE: AWAY!)
So kiss me, Kate, darling devil devine,

LILLI:
Kindly drop dead!

FRED:
For now thou shall ever be

LILLI:
Now I shall never be

MALE CHORUS:
Now thou shall ever be

FEMALE CHORUS:
Now thou shall never be

FRED/LILLI:
Mine/Thine

FRED:
Yes mine!

LILLI:
Not thine!

FRED:
Yes mine!

LILLI:
You swine!

FRED:
Yes mine!

CHORUS:
She called him a swine!

FRED:
So kiss me, Kate

LILLI:
I'll crack your plate!

FRED:
Oh, please don't pout

LILLI:
I'll knock you out

FRED:
My priceless prise

LILLI:
I'll black you eyes!

FRED:
Oh, kiss me quick

LILLI:
Your rump I'll kick!

FRED/CHORUS:
Oh kiss me/him

LILLI:
Dounder!

CHORUS:
He's not her dish, He's not her dish, oh kiss him!

LILLI:
Flouder!

CHORUS:
A type of fish, she would not wish, oh kiss him!

LILLI:
Dastard!

CHORUS:
What's that we heard, what's that we heard, oh kiss him!

LILLI:
(Spoken) Bastard!

(CHORUS gasps in shock, short pause)

FRED:
Oh, Katie, that's a naughty word, oh kiss me!

CHORUS:
Kiss him!

FRED:
Kiss me!

FRED/CHORUS:
Kiss me!/Kiss him, kiss him, kiss him!

LILLI:
Never, never, never!

(LILLI continues singing never joined in by a song bird. MAN 2, shoots the bird)

CHORUS:
Kiss him Kate, kiss him,
Kiss him Kate, kiss him,
Kiss him Kate, kiss him,
Kiss him Kate, kiss him,
Kiss him Kate, Kate him Kate, Kiss him Kate

Kiss...

LILLI:
No!

CHORUS:
Him...

LILLI:
NO!!!

MAN 1 AND 2
(Spoken) Ahh, kiss him!

CHORUS:
Kate!

FRED:
Ha! (raises his fist in triumph)


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Kiss Me Kate the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Another Op'nin', Another Show
Why Can't You Behave?
Wunderbar
So In Love
We Open In Venice
Tom, Dick Or Harry
I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua
I Hate Men
Were Thine That Special Face
Cantiamo D'amore
Kiss Me, Kate
Too Darn Hot
Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
Always True To You (In My Fashion)
Bianca
So In Love (Reprise)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple
Finale