Intro
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[SALLY (spoken)]
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So, if anyone should ask about you
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about me one day, Cliff, you have two alternatives: you can either say,
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"Oh, yes, it's true. We're living in delicious sin." Or
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you can simple tell them the truth, and say:
[Sally]
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I met this perfectly marvellous girl
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In this perfectly wonderful place
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As I lifted a glass
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To the start of a marvellous year.
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Before you knew she called on the phone,
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Inviting.
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Next moment I was no longer alone,
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But sat reciting
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Some perfectly beautiful verse,
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In my charming American style.
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How I dazzled her senses
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Was truly no less than a crime.
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Now I've this perfectly marvelous girl
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In my perfectly beautiful room
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And we're living together
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And having a marvellous time.
[Cliff (spoken]
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Sally, I'm afraid this wouldn't work out. You're much
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too distracting.
[SALLY (spoken)]
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Distracting? No, inspiring!
[Sally]
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She tells me perfectly marvellous tales
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Of her thrillingly scandalous life
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Which I'll probably use
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As a chapter or two in my book.
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And since my stay in Berlin was to force
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Creation,
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What luck to fall on a fabulous source
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Of stimulation.
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And perfectly marvellous, too,
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Is her perfect agreement to be
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Just as still as a mouse
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When I'm giving my novel a whirl.
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Yes, I've a highly agreeable life
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In my perfectly beautiful room
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With my nearly invisible,
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Perfectly marvellous, girl.
[Cliff]
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I... met... this...
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Truly remarkable girl
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In this really incredible town,
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And she skillfully managed
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To talk her way in to my room.
[Sally]
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Oh, Cliff!
[Cliff]
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I have a terrible feeling I've said
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F# dumb thing.
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Beside, I've only got one narrow bed.
[Sally]
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We'll think of something.
[Interlude]
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[Together]
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And now this wild unpredictable girl
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and this perfectly beautiful man
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will be living together and having a marvelous time