歌曲名 At the Ballet

歌手名 Barbra Streisand

作词：Edward Kleban

作曲：Marvin Hamlisch

I really need this job

Not more than I do believe me

Hi I'm sheila what's your name

Bebe and this is Maggie

Hi Maggie

Hi

Hi

Gosh there's a lot of people here

Yeah it's a cattle call

But you'll get the job for sure Maggie you're so pretty

Believe me looks are overrated it's just a different set of problems

OK ladies line up we'll start with you

You number 24

My name is Sheila what do you want to know

Why don't you tell me why you're in this business

I wanted to be a ballet dancer what else

The light by the way is a very funny color

Do you have anything softer

Don't worry about the lights

It's very harsh

So tell me

What

Do you always come on like this

No sometimes I'm aggressive

Will you just just bring it down

Bring what down

Your attitude miss

It's Sheila

OK Sheila

Why don't you tell me about your parents

My parents

Yeah

Well my mother was a ballerina until my father made her quit

Really

Really

Tell me more

Tell you more

Daddy always thought that he married beneath him

That's what he said that's what he said

When he proposed he informed my mother

He was probably her very last chance

And though she was twenty two

Though she was twenty two

Though she was twenty two

She married him

Life with my dad wasn't ever a picnic

More like a come as you are

When I was five I remember my mother

Dug earrings out of the car

I knew that they weren't hers

But it wasn't something you'd want to discuss

He wasn't warm

Well not to her well not to us

Come to think of it

But everything was beautiful at the ballet

Graceful men lift lovely girls in white

Yes everything was beautiful at the ballet

I was happy at the ballet

And that's when I started class

Up a steep and very narrow stairway

To the voice like a metronome

Up a steep and very narrow stairway

It wasn't paradise

It wasn't paradise

It wasn't paradise

But it was home

OK number 18

I'm Bebe sir

And what's your story

I don't know what you mean

Okay on the subject of mothers what about yours

My mother

Yes yours

She lied to me

She lied to you

Mother always said I'd be very attractive

When I grew up when I grew up

Different she said with a special something

And a very very personal flair

And though I was eight or nine

Though I was eight or nine

Though I was eight or nine I hated her

Now different is nice but it sure isn't pretty

Pretty is what it's about

I never met anyone who was different

Who couldn't figure that out

So beautiful I'd never lived to see

But it was clear

If not to her well then to me

That

Everyone is beautiful at the ballet

Every prince has got to have his swan

Yes

Everyone is beautiful at the ballet

I was pretty

At the ballet

Up a steep and very narrow stairway

To the voice like a metronome

Up a steep and very narrow stairway

It wasn't paradise

It wasn't paradise

It wasn't paradise

But it was home

All right number 6

Number 6 that's me Maggie

Can I tell you about my parents

Go ahead

Ah I don't know what they were for

Or against really except each other

I mean I was born to save their marriage

But when my father

Came to pick up my mother from the hospital he said

Eh I thought this was gonna help but I guess not

Anyway I did have a fantastic fantasy life

I used to dance around the living room with my arms up

Like this my fantasy was it was an Indian chief

And he'd say to me

Maggie do you wanna dance

And I'd say

Daddy I would love to dance

But it was clear when he proposed that

I was born to help their marriage and when

That's what he said

That's what she said

I used to dance around the living room

He wasn't warm

Not to her

It was an Indian chief and he said

Maggie do you wanna dance

And I'd said

Daddy I would love to

Everything was beautiful at the ballet

Raise your arms and someone's always there

Everything was beautiful at the ballet

At the ballet

At the ballet

Yes everything was beautiful at the ballet

I was pretty

I was happy

I would love to

At the ballet

God I hope I get this job

Yeah Me too

What about me

OK ladies we'll let you know next