PICKERING
Tonight old man you did it
You did it, you did it.
You said that you would do it
And indeed you did.
I thought that you would rue it
I doubted you'd do it
But now I must admit it
That succeed you did.
You should get a medal
Or be even made a knight.
HIGGINS
Oh! it was nothing, really nothing.
PICKERING
All alone you hurdled every obstacle in sight.
HIGGINS
Now wait, now wait, give credit where it's due,
A lot of the glory goes to you!
PICKERING
But you're the one who did it,
Who did it, who did it.
As sturdy as Gibraltar
Not a second did you falter.
There's no doubt it
You did it.
I must have aged a year tonight
At times I thought I'd die of fright
Never was there a momentary lull.
HIGGINS
Shortly after we came in
I saw at once we'd easily win
And after that I found it deadly dull.
PICKERING
Aha! You should have heard the "ooh"s and "ahh"s
Everyone wondering who she was.
HIGGINS
You'd think they'd never seen a lady before.
PICKERING
And when the Prince of Transylvania asked to meet her
And gave his arm to lead her to the floor,
I said to him you did it
You did it, you did it.
They thought she was ecstatic
And so damned aristocratic
And they never knew that
You did it.
HIGGINS
Thank goodness for Zoltan Karpathy; if it hadn't
been for him I'd have died of boredom.
MRS. PEARCE
Karpathy, that dreadful Hungarian; was he there?
HIGGINS
Yes, he was there alright and up to his old tricks.
HIGGINS
That blackguard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach.
He made it the devilish business of his
To find out who this Miss Doolittle is.
Every time we looked around
There he was that hairy hound from Budapest.
Never leaving us alone
Never have I ever known a ruder pest.
Finally I decided it was foolish not to
Let him have his chance with her
So I stepped aside and him dance with her.
Oozing charm from every pore
He oiled his way around the floor.
Every trick that he could play
He used to strip her mask away.
When at last the dance was done
He glowed as if he knew he'd won.
And with a voice too eager
And a smile too broad
He announced to the hostess that she was: a fraud!
MRS. PEARCE
No!
HIGGINS
Jawohl!
HIGGINS
Her English is too good, he said
That clearly indicates she is foreign
Whereas other people are instructed in their
Native language, English people ar-en't.
And although she may have studied with an
Expert dialectition and grammarian,
I can tell that she was born: Hungarian!
(Not only Hungarian, but of royal blood.)
She is a princess!
ALL
Bravo! bravo! bravo!
Congratulations, Professor Higgins
For your glorious victory.
Congratulations, Professor Higgins
You'll be mentioned in history.
MAIDS MANSERVANT
Congratulations, Professor Higgins This evening sir you did it,
For your glorious victory. You did it, you did it.
You said that you would do it,
And indeed you did.
Congratulations, Professor Higgins This evening sir you did it,
[unintelligible]
You did it, you did it.
We know that we have said it
that you did it
ALL
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