Waiting For The Girls Upstairs chords by Stephen Sondheim
Verse 1
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Hey up there, way up there,
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what do you say up there?
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I see it all,
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it's like a movie in my head that plays and plays.
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It isn't just the bad things I
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remember.
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It's the whole damn show.
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Waitin' around for the girls upstairs
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After the curtain came down
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Money in my pocket to spend
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Honey, could you maybe
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get a friend for my
friend?
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Hearing the sound of the girls above
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Dressing to go on the town
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Clicking heels on
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steel and cement.
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Picking up the giggles floating
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down through the vent.
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Goddamnedest hours that I ever spent
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Were waiting for the girls up
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stairs.
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Hey up there, way up there,
What do you say up there?
That's where the keys hung,
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and that's where you picked up your mail.
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I remember, me and
Ben, me and
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Ben, we'd come around at ten, me and
Ben, and hang around the wings,
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watching things with what the hell was his name,
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you know, the old guy?
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Max! I remember!
Anyway,
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there we'd stay until the curtain fell,
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And when the curtain fell,
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then all hell broke.
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Girls on the run and scenery flying,
doors slamming left and right.
Girls in their undies blushing but trying
not to duck out of sight.
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Girls by the hundreds waving and crying,
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see you tomorrow night.
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Girls looking frazzled and
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girls looking great.
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Girls in a frenzy to get to a date.
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Girls like a madhouse and
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two of them late
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And who had to wait?
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And wait
And wait
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And wait
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Waiting around for the boys
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downstairs
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Stalling as long as we dare
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Which dress from my wardrobe of two?
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One of them was borrowed
and the other was blue
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Holding our ground for the boys below
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Fussing around with our hair
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Giggling, wriggling out of our tights
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Chattering and clattering
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down all of those flights
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God, I'd forgotten there ever were nights
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Of waiting for the boys downstairs
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You up there?
Down in a minute
You two up there?
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Just keep your shirts on
Aren't you two up there?
Heard you the first time
Look, are you coming?
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Or aren't you coming?
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Will you hold your horses?
We've gotta get going
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Sunday will hold us a table and ring
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side all night!
Hi!
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Girls?
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Ben!
Sally?
Boy, we're beat!
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You look neat!
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We saw you in the wings!
How are things?
Did someone pass you in?
Slipped a fin too!
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What the hell is his name?
You know the doorman?
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Al?
No!
Big!
Fat!
Young!
Bald!
Hairy!
Yeah!
Okie dokes.
Come on, folks.
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And where we gonna go?
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A little joint I know.
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What?
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Great new show there.
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Hey, I thought you
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said tonight it'd be
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Tony's.
This joint is just as grand.
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We girls got dressed for dancing at
Tony's.
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This joint is in demand.
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Talk, talk and bye, you'll find us at
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Tony's.
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Wait till you hear the band.
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You told us,
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Tony's, that we'd go to
Tony's.
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I never said
Tony's,
Westbound lands of
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Tony's,
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Mid land,
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Seatone's, all right,
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then we'll go!
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Waiting around for the girls upstairs
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Weren't we chuckleheads then?
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Very young and very old hat.
Everybody has to go through
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stages like that.
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Waiting around for the girls upstairs.
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Thank you but never again.
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Life was fun but oh so intense.
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Everything was possible and
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nothing made sense.
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Back there when one
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of the major events
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Was waiting for the girls,
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waiting for the girls
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Waiting for the girls
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Upstairs!
Waiting For The Girls Upstairs
Stephen Sondheim
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