Adelaide’s Lament Songtext
von Barbra Streisand

Let′s see
It says here

The average unmarried female
Basically insecure
Due to some long frustration
May react, react?
With psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to endure
Affecting the upper respiratory tract

In other words
Just from waiting around
For that plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold

You can spray her wherever you figure
The streptococci lurk
You can give her a shot
For whatever she's got
But it just won′t work


If she's tired of getting the fish-eye
From the hotel clerk
A person
Can develop a cold

Oh, that's so crazy
Let′s see
Chapter 12

The female remaining single
Just in the legal sense
Shows a neurotic tendency
See note, where′s note?

Chronic organic syndromes
Toxic or hypertense
Involving the eye
The ear and the nose and throat
Oh, that's very interesting

In other words
Just from worrying
Whether the wedding is on or off
A person
Can develop a cough


You can feed her all day
With the Vitamin A
And the Bromo Fizz
But the medicine never
Gets anywhere near
Where the trouble is

If she′s getting a kind
Of a name for herself
And the name ain't his
A person
Can develop a cough

And furthermore
Just from stalling
And stalling and stalling
The wedding trip
A person
Can develop la grippe

When they get on a train for Niagara
And she can hear church bells chime
The compartment is air conditioned
And the mood sublime
They get off at Saratoga
For the fourteenth time
Where a person
Can develop la grippe

La grippe, la post nasal drip
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus that′s really a pip

From a lack of community property
And a feeling she's getting too old
A person
Can develop
A big, a bad, a really, really bad cold