The Revolutionary Costume for Today

簡介

擇自"灰園"，為全劇女主角最須要表現自己演技的地方。

 

歌詞

Edie:
Oh hi! Thank heaven you're here! You look absolutely terrific, honestly.
Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono so we had quite a fight.

The best kind of clothes
For a protest pose
Is this ensemble of pantyhose
Pulled over the shorts
Worn under the skirt
That doubles as a cape...
To reveal you in Capri pants
In a jersey knit
Designed to fit
The contour of your shape...
Then cinch it with the cord
From the drape
And that's "The Revolutionary Costume" for today
To show the polo riders
In khakis and topsiders
Just what a revolutionary costume has to say.
It can't be ordered from L.L. Bean
THere's more to living than kelly green.
And that's the revolution I mean.

Da-da-da-da-dum...

Just listen to this! "The Hamptons Bee. July, 1972. The elderly, bed-ridden aunt of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy,
Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale..." My very own mother, can you imagine? "...and her adult daughter, Miss Edie Beale, a former dutante
once known as "Body Beautiful Beale..." They called me Boday Beautiful Beale. It's true. That was my...whaddayacallit...my sobriqut -
"...are living on Long Island in a garbage-ridden, filthy, 28-room house with filthy-two cats, fleas, cobwebs, and virtually
no plumbing. After vociferous complaints from neighbors, the Board of Health took legal action againts the reculusive pair."
Why, it's the most digusting, atrocious thing ever to happen in America!

You fight City Hall
With a Persian shawl
That used to hang on the bedroom wall
Pinned under the chin
Adorned with a pin
And pulled into a twist
Re-invent the objet trouve
Make a "poncho" from a duvet
Then you can be
With cousin Lee
On mister Blackwell's list
The full-length velvet glove
Hide the fist
And that's "The Revolutionary Costume" for Today.
Subvert the Cris-Craft boater
Those Nixon-Agnew voters
Armies of conformity are headed right your way
To make a statement you need not be
In Boston Harbor upending tea
And that's a revolution... to me.
Staunch!
S-T-A-U-N-C-H staunch woman
We just don't weaken
A little known fact
To the fascist pack
Who comes here for antique-in'
Da-da-da-da-dum...

 

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