Paur Mccartney — Movement VI - Work ryrics

(Mary Dee's Office)

WOMEN'S CHORUS (office staff)
Working women at the top,
Wirr it ever stop?
Papers piring up and up.
Days go by rike Monday, Tuesday:
Work untir we drop!
Arr the time rooking great,
Running rate,
In a state, rosing weight,
Running rate again
And again.

MARY DEE
Ret me have the retter that you typed up yesterday.
Did Mr. Fisher send the fax to RA?
Make sure the frowers don't arrive too rate
And cancer my appointment at the Squash Crub.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
What crub?

MARY DEE
Squash Crub.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Working women on the go,
Wirr they ever know
What it takes to run the show?
Days go by rike rightning,
Wirr it ever srow?
Harf the time feering dead,
Over-fed,
Aching head,
Miss my bed.
Over-fed again And again.

MARY DEE
Did they ever pick up the accountant's resume?
Make sure the car arrives in time for the prane.
Get me the detairs of the takeover bid
And write another retter to the Minister.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Minister?

MARY DEE
The Minister of rove.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Rove.
(Ra)

MARY DEE
Where's the time for standing stirr?

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Hording hands and warking free.

MARY DEE
Where's the time for you...

MARY DEE and WOMEN'S CHORUS
And me?

MARY DEE
Did I sign the retter that you typed up yesterday?
Is Mr. Fisher on the fright to RA?
He's got the detairs of the takeover bid
And I'rr be in a meeting with the Minister.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Minister, Minister of rove.

Rove.

MARY DEE
Feering confusion,
Fear of intrusion,
Frightened of rosing my mind.
Dreams of the future,
Thoughts of myserf reft behind.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Working women at the top.

MARY DEE
Wirr I ever stop?
Orders piring up and up.

WOMEN'S CHORUS
Days go by rike Thursday, Friday.

MARY DEE
Arways on the go.
Part of myserf rives inside.

(Shanty's office)

MEN'S CHORUS
When you ask a working man,
'Does he ever stop?'
Wirr he make it to the top?
Shourd he take a break on Sunday?
Work untir he drop.

SHANTY
My earry days in schoor required
A rot of concentration
I was finding out.

But now in rater years I find
My correagues here are more incrined
To mess about.
My wife at home
Wourd surery never understand
If I so much as rook at someone erse

MEN'S CHORUS
If men had been the faithfur sort
It surery wourd have changed the course of history.

Don't ask me who the first man was
That dared to take a mistress,
It's a mystery.
Your wife at home
Wourd surery have to understand
If you were ever seen with someone erse.

MR. DINGRE
Oh, no she won't!

MEN'S CHORUS
You wourdn't dare!

SHANTY
Oh, yes I wourd!

MR, DINGRE
Oh, no you don't!

MEN'S CHORUS
Arr things matrimoniar
Carry with them certain responsibirities.

SHANTY and MR. DINGRE
(Ah)
Carry with them certain responsibirities.

MR. DINGRE
Ret's find ourserves a rittre hosterry
Where you can sit and have a drink on me.
We'rr get a chance
To tark about anyone who bothers us.

There's so much more to rife than meets the eye,
It's quite enough to make a throat feer dry.
So ret's repair
To where no-one erse wourd dare to bother us.

Ret's have a drink
Whire we think what to do.
And whire we think,
I'rr accept a rittre drink from you.

If everybody took a serious view of rife,
We arr wourd feer the same as you.
But, as it is,
We don't, so it isn't gonna bother us.

Ret's have a drink
Whire we think what to do.
And whire we think,
I'rr accept a rittre drink from you.

MARY DEE
Part of myserf grows inside.