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2002 Off-Broadway Musical
A Man of No Importance the Musical - Books Lyrics
LILY:
Do you know what’s in his room? Books,
Hundreds of books under lock and key.
CARNEY:
Well, there it is.
Books! They’re at the root of it.
Books! You know they’re dangerous.
All that junk piled up in your flat.
Here, have some more…
LILY:
Not only that. He cooks
Revolting foreign things.
CARNEY:
Cooks?
LILY:
Can you imagine it?
Plates of stuff with parsley on top!
Here, let me pour…
CARNEY:
I’ll have a drop.
BOTH:
But
Books! It isn’t natural,
Just think how bad it looks –
To peek through the crack
And meet with a stack
Of books!
LILY:
By rights, Mister Carney,
Alfie should be married and out of the house.
CARNEY:
My sentiments exactly!
And then it’ll just be us, Mr. and Mrs. William Carney.
Ah, Lily, I wouldn’t stay out of the house…
If it was me,
I’d be home at five with some chops, or liver, or ham,
And every single Sunday we would have lamb.
LILY:
Lamb…
CARNEY:
We’d take a stroll, watching people pass,
And at Mass we’d share the same pew,
Oh, that’s what I’d like to do,
Ah, Lily…
LILY:
Don’t lose your head –
Not till he’s wed.
Some days
I wonder where he got such queer and foreign ways.
CARNEY:
He got it from all the smut that he reads,
You know where smut eventually leads…
LILY:
His manly impulses all bottled up.
CARNEY:
Well, that’s why the poor sod cooks.
BOTH:
The man needs a wife
To ruin his life,
Not books!
Books!
Other Songs: A Man of No Importance the Musical Lyrics
Books Lyrics A Man of No Importance the musical
A Man of No Importance the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
A Man of No Importance
The Burden of Life
Going Up
Princess
The Streets of Dublin
Books
Man in the Mirror
Love Who You Love
Our Father
Confession
The Cuddles Mary Gave
A Man of No Importance (Reprise)
Confusing Times
Love Who You Love (Reprise)
Man in the Mirror (Reprise)
Tell Me Why
Love Who You Love (Reprise)
Welcome to the World
Poem
Love's Never Lost
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