2:39:00
# And a bill collector beating at the door #
2:39:03
# She'll try to teach the things I taught her #
2:39:06
# And end up selling flowers instead #
2:39:09
# Begging for her bread and water #
2:39:11
# While her husband has
his breakfast in bed #
2:39:17
# In a year or so
when she's prematurely gray #
2:39:21
# And the blossom in her cheek
has turned to chalk #
2:39:25
# She'll come home and lo
he'll have upped and run away #
2:39:28
# With a social-climbing heiress
from New York #
2:39:31
# Poor Eliza #
2:39:32
# How simply frightful #
2:39:34
# How humiliating #
2:39:36
# How delightful #
2:39:40
# How poignant it will be
On that inevitable night #
2:39:43
# When she hammers on my door
In tears and rags #
2:39:46
# Miserable and lonely
Repentant and contrite #
2:39:50
# Will I take her in
Or hurl her to the wolves? #
2:39:53
# Give her kindness
Or the treatment she deserves? #
2:39:56
# Will I take her back
Or throw the baggage out? #
2:40:02
# Well, I'm a most forgiving man #
2:40:04
# The sort who never could, ever would #
2:40:07
# Take a position
and staunchly never budge #
2:40:14
# A most forgiving man #
2:40:19
# But I shall never take her back #
2:40:22
# If she were crawling on her knees #
2:40:24
# Let her promise to atone
Let her shiver, let her moan #
2:40:27
# I'll slam the door
And let the hellcat freeze #
2:40:33
Marry Freddy.
2:40:49
# But I'm so used to hear her say #
2:40:52
# 'Good morning' every day #
2:40:55
# Her joys, her woes #
2:40:57
# Her highs, her lows #