A Little Night Music (1973) You Must Meet My Wife - Len Cariou/Glynis Johns

作词：Stephen Sondheim

作曲：Stephen Sondheim

She lightens my sadness

She livens my days

She bursts with a kind of madness

My well-ordered ways

My happiest mistake the ache of my life:

You must meet my wife

She bubbles with pleasure

She glows with surprise

Disrupts my accustomed leisure

And ruffles my ties

I don't know even now quite how it began

You must meet my wife my Anne

One thousand whims to which I give in

Since her smallest tear turns me ashen

I never dreamed that I could live in

So completely demented contented a fashion

So sunlike so winning

So unlike a wife

I do think that I'm beginning

To show signs of life

Don't ask me how at my age one still can grow

If you met my wife you'd know

(Desiree)

Dear Fredrik

I'm just longing to meet her

Sometime

(Fredrik)

She sparkles

(Desiree)

How pleasant

(Fredrik)

She twinkles

(Desiree)

How nice

(Fredrik)

Her youth is a sort of present--

(Desiree)

Whatever the price

(Fredrik)

The incandescent--what --the--

(Desiree (offering a cigarette):)

Light

(Fredrik)

--of my life

You must meet my wife

(Desiree)

Yes I must I really must

Now--

(Fredrik)

She flutters

(Desiree)

How charming

(Fredrik)

She twitters

(Desiree)

My word

(Fredrik)

She floats

(Desiree)

Isn't that alarming

What is she a bird

(Fredrik)

She makes me feel I'm--what --

(Desiree)

A very old man

(Fredrik)

Yes--no

(Desiree)

No

(Fredrik)

But--

(Desiree)

I must meet your Gertrude

(Fredrik)

My Anne

(Desiree)

Sorry--Anne

(Fredrik)

She loves my voice my walk my mustache

The cigar in fact that I'm smoking

She'll watch me puff until it's just ash

Then she'll save the cigar butt

(Desiree)

Bizarre but

You're joking

(Fredrik)

She dotes on--

(Desiree)

Your dimple

(Fredrik)

My snoring

(Desiree)

How dear

(Fredrik)

The point is she's really simple

(Desiree)

Yes that much seems clear

(Fredrik)

She gives me funny names--

(Desiree)

Like

(Fredrik)

Old Dry-as-Dust

(Desiree)

Wouldn't she just

(Fredrik)

You must meet my wife

(Desiree)

Yes I must yes I must

(Fredrik)

A sea of whims that I submerge in

Yet so loveable in repentance

Unfortunately still a virgin

But you can't force a flower--

(Desiree)

Don't finish that sentence

She's monstrous

(Fredrik)

She's frightened

(Desiree)

Unfeeling

(Fredrik)

Unversed

She'd strike you as unenlightened--

(Desiree)

No I'd strike her first

(Fredrik)

Her reticence her apprehension--

(Desiree)

Her crust

(Fredrik)

No

(Desiree)

Yes

(Fredrik)

No

(Desiree)

Fredrik

(Fredrik)

You must meet my wife

(Desiree)

Let me get my hat and my knife

(Fredrik)

What was that

(Desiree)

I must meet your wife

(Both)

Yes you must

Yes I must