What Can You Do With a Man Songtext
von Richard Rodgers

Listen to your lady who speaks
This affair has run its course
I′ll reside in Athens six weeks
While I get me a divorce
Listen to your lover who asks
Why this battle has begun
He has long neglected some tasks
That a husband should have done
He eats me out of house and home
But doesn't like my cooking
That′s nothing new with a man
What can you do with a man?
He likes to use my brush and comb
And yet he's funny looking
Home's like a zoo with a man
What can you do with a man?
Some men wear half pajamas
I took a chance
I bought the guy pajamas
He wears the pants


By day he′s like a five year old
At night he′s ninety-seven
What can you do with a man like that?
When you get mad don't count to ten
Go on and count a million
Don′t be a shrew with a man
That's what you do with a man
You need a regiment of men
I′m only one civilian
Wait for your cue with a man
That's what you do with a man
Marriage is such a blessing
So I have found
I′ve got a thousand blessings
Each weighs a pound
I'm only four foot ten right now
I once was five foot seven
That's what you did to a man like that
I wear my nicest negligee
And find him reading Plato
Nothing is new with a man
What can you do with a man?
I shook the tree of life one day
And got a cold potato
I′m in a stew with a man
What can you do with a man?
Where is his sense of duty?
Where is his taste?
Acres and acres of beauty
Going to waste
He walks me in the woods at night
To find a four leaf clover
What can you do with a man like that?