Everybody Ought to Have a Maid - Stephen Sondheim

Maids like me.

I’m neat

I like maids.

They’re neat

Something no household should be without

(sung)

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a working girl

Everybody ought to have a lurking girl

To putter around the house

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a menial

Consistantly congenial

And quieter than a mouse

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious

Tidying up the dishes

Neat as a pin

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful

Sweeping out

Sleeping in

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a maid

Someone who you hire when you’re short of help

To offer you the sort of help

You never get from a spouse

Fluttering up the stairway

Shuttering up the windows

Cluttering up the bedroom

Buttering up the master

Puttering all around the house!

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious

Tidying up the dishes

Neat as a pin

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful

Sweeping out

Sleeping in

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a maid

Someone who in fetching you your slipper will

Be winsome as a whippoorwill

And graceful as a grouse

Skittering down the hallway

Flittering through the parlor

Tittering in the pantry

Littering up the bedroom

Twittering all around the house!

A maid?

A maid

A maid

A maid!

Everybody ought to have a maid

Everybody ought to have a serving-girl

A loyal and unswerving girl

Whose quieter than a mouse

Oh, oh, think of her at the dustbin

'Specially when she’s just been

Traipsing about

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful

Living in

Giving out

Everybody ought to have a maid

Daintily collecting bits of paper n' strings

Appealing in her apron strings

And graceful as a grouse

Pattering through the attic

Chattering in the cellar

Clattering in the kitchen

Flattering in the bedroom

Puttering all around the house!

The house!

The house!

The house!

The house!

A maid?

A maid

A maid

A maid!

Everybody ought to have a maid

Someone who’s efficient and reliable

Obedient and pliable

And quieter than a mouse!

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be so nimble

Fiddling with her thimble

Mending her gown

Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful

Cleaning up

Leaning down

Everybody ought to have a maid

Someone who’ll be busy as a bumblebee

And even if you grumble, be

As graceful as a grouse

Wriggling in the anteroom

Jiggling in the dining room

Giggling in the living room

Wiggling in the other rooms

Puttering all around the house!

The house!

The house!

The house!

The house!