THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS
From "Gigi" (1958)
(Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Leowe)

Recorded by: Chet Baker; Les Brown; Barbara Brussell; 
Jack Carroll; Maurice Chevalier; Rosemary Clooney; 
Nick Curtis; Alfred Drake; Merle Haggard; Hit Crew; 
Steve Howe; Dick Hyman; Davy Jones; Hank Jones; 
Jack Jones; London Philharmonic Orch.; 
Adam Mansell Orch.; Ashley Miller; Liza Minnelli; 
Ron Moody; 101 Strings Orch.; André Previn; 
John Raitt; Peter Sellers; Topol; Dionne Warwick.


INTRO
Called "Opening" on the CD, this little bit is sung by Honore 
(played by Maurice Chevalier) right before he sings 
Thank Heaven For Little Girls.

Now for example here we find
Exhibit A, the married kind
These ladies stood their ground and won
And I salute them, every one

Here are some others to behold
For whom the bells have never tolled
Oh what a poor defenseless pair 
In those pathetic rags they wear


(Transcribed by Holly Tooker - December 2003)


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THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS


Each time I see a little girl
Of five or six or seven
I can't resist a joyous urge
To smile and say
Thank heaven for little girls
For little girls get
Bigger every day
Thank heaven for little girls
They grow up in 
The most delightful way.
Those little eyes 
So helpless and appealing
When they were flashing
Send you crashing
Through the ceiling
Thank heaven for little girls
Thank heaven for them all
No matter where,
No matter who
Without them
What would little boys do
Thank heaven (2x)
Thank heaven for little girls.


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