From: “Goldilocks”

The Beast In You

From the musical production "Goldilocks"

by

LEROY ANDERSON

Lyrics by: JOAN FORD,

JEAN KERR and WALTER KERR

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© 1958 (Renewed 1986) by Leroy Anderson, Joan Ford, Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr
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 from the musical production “GOLDILOCKS”

THE BEAST IN YOU

Words by Music by
WALTER and JEAN KERR, LEROY ANDERSON
JOAN FORD

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To the na - ked eye you’re ab - so - lute - ly peer-less, you’re

         


   
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brawn - y, brain - y, fear - less and you know what you’re a - bout. And I tell my - self no

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mat - ter what a mess I’m in, you’re such a man - ly spec - i - men, you’ll sure - ly get me

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out. But would you? Or have I mis - un - der - stood you? When I’m in a
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cri - sis and ask what your ad - vice is, do you know how you’d an - swer?

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scene is dark - est Af - ri - ca, the wa - ter’s nice and hot, the
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can - ni - bals have got me salt - and - pep - per’d for the pot; but
one should fail to eat me up the oth - er sure - ly will; they’re
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you come run - ning to the fray and this is what you

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gain - ing fast with o - pen jaws, you en - ter and we

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say: “But dearest, cannibals have rights just like other people.”
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pause: “Darling, what did you do to provoke those dogs?”

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do, that’s ex - act - ly what you’d do, where is the beast

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in you? 2. A you?

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I don’t ask for a high mind - ed

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he - ro as fair and un - der - stand-ing as can be,

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al - ways read-y to pur - sue the oth - er fel-low’s point of view, al - ways

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search-ing for the truth to make us free. He’s a lib - er - al? Well,

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dan - dy! It’s just that I de - mand he be a nar-row-mind-ed, small ho - ri-zon’d

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par - ti - san, o - pin - ion - at - ed, big - ot - ed, re - ac - tion - ar - y mule when it comes to

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me. I’m hud-dled on the door-step and I

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can - not pay the rent, the land - lord with the mus-tache is an e - vil, leer - ing

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gent; but through the blind - ing snow you come to tell your lit - tle

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That’s what you’d do, that’s ex - act - ly what you’d do, where, oh where is the

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beast in you?

    
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