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Without You (My Fair Lady - 1964)

"In Spain, Women Launch Nationwide Feminist Strike Protesting “Alliance of Patriarchy & Capitalism”"

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Published on Jan 11, 2009

Lyrics

What a fool I was, what a dominated fool
To think you were the earth and sky
What a fool I was, what an addle-pated fool
What a muddle-headed dolt was I!

No, my reverberating friend -
You are not the beginning and the end

There'll be spring every year without you
England still will be hear without you
There'll be fruit on the tree and a shore by the sea
There'll be crumpets and tea without you
Art and music will thrive without you
Somehow Keats will survive without you
And there still will be rain
On that plain down in Spain
Even that will remain without you
I can do
Without you

You dear friend who talk so well
You can go to Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire!
They can still rule the land without you
Windsor Castle will stand without you
And without much ado,
We can all muddle through without you

Without your pulling it the tide comes in
Without your twirling it the earth can spin
Without your pushing them the clouds roll by
If they can do without you Ducky, so can I

I shall not feel alone without you
I can stand on my own without you
So go back in your shell
I can do bloody well without---

BYYYY GEORGE I really did it
I did it, I did it
I said I'd a woman and indeed I did
I knew that I could do it
I knew it, I knew it
I said I'd make a woman and succeed I did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3mC4485Ue0

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50 Years Later: Why My Fair Lady Is Better Than You Remember

[...]

Now, it’s entirely possible that Lerner and Loewe were themselves misogynistic jerks, and these songs were meant as appreciative
bro-anthems. Maybe if they had been alive today, the music videos would have featured naked models on leashes. But more
likely, they wrote these songs to humiliate Henry Higgins, to show the audience that he’s a jerk and they know it.
http://time.com/3525216/my-fair-lady-1964/