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Artist: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (The Musical)
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
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The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And give expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand, but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charm in the end
But square cut or pear shape
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs that you must keep Masonic
Are the better bets
If little pets get big baguettes
Time rolls on, and youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees
You stand straight at Tiff'ny's!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses
Go back to their spouses!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
A well conducted rendezvous
Makes a maiden's heart beat quicker
But when the rendezvous is through
These stones still keep their flicker
Romance is divine, and I'm not one to knock it
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
Romance is divine, yes, but where can you hock it?
When the flame is gone
Just try and pawn a tired Don Juan
Some men buy, and some just sigh
That to make you their bride they intend
But buyers or sighers
They're such goddamn liars!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
At Yale there's a lad whose appeal I acknowledge
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
I might like his dad, but when I meet a college boy
The thing to say
Is 'ray, 'ray, 'ray for Cartier!
Some girls find some piece of mind
In a trust fund that banks recommend
But if you are busty
Your trustee gets lusty!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Stash those rocks in your strongbox
For on them you can always depend
It's not compensation
It's self-preservation!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend (I don't mean rhinestones!)
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
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