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- Soundtrack: Chorus Line - At the Ballet Lyrics
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- SHEILA
- Daddy always thought that he married beneath him
- That's what he said, that's what he said.
- When he proposed he informed my mother
- He was probably her very last chance.
- And though she was twenty-two,
- Though she was twenty-two,
- Though she was twenty-two--
- She married him.
- Life with my dad wasn't ever a picnic
- More like a "Come as you are."
- When I was five I remember my mother
- Dug earrings out of the car
- I knew they weren't hers
- But it wasn't something you'd wanna discuss
- He wasn't warm, well, not to her ... well, not to us
- But ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet.
- Graceful men lift lovely girls in white.
- Yes, ev'rything was beautiful at ballet,
- Hey! I was happy at the ballet.
- That's why I started ballet class
- SHEILA and BEBE
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway
- To the voice like a metronome
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway
- It wasn't paradise, it wasn't paradise,
- It wasn't paradise, but it was home.
- BEBE
- Mother always said I'd be very attractive
- When I grew up, when I grew up
- "Diff'rent," she said,
- "With a special something
- And a very, very personal flair."
- And though I was eight or nine,
- Though I was eight or nine,
- Though I was eight or nine,
- I hated her.
- Now, "diff'rent" is nice, but it sure isn't pretty.
- "Pretty" is what it's about.
- I never met anyone who was "diff'rent"
- Who couldn't figure that out.
- So beautiful I'd never lived to see.
- But it was clear, if not to her,
- Well then to me!
- BEBE and MAGGIE
- That ev'ryone is beautiful at the ballet.
- Ev'ry prince has got to have his swan.
- Yes, ev'ryone is beautiful at the ballet,
- Hey! I was pretty
- SHEILA
- At the ballet
- SHEILA BEBE and MAGGIE
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway
- To the voice like a metronome
- Up a steep and very narrow stairway
- It wasn't paradise,
- it wasn't paradise,
- It wasn't paradise, but it was home.
- MAGGIE
- I don't know what they were for or against, really! Except each
- other! I mean, I was born to save their marriage. But when my father
- came to pick My mother up at the hospital, he said, "Well, I thought
- this was going to help But I guess it's not." Anyway, I did have a
- fantastic fantasy life I used to dance around the living room with
- my arms up like this. My fantasy was that it was an Indian chief and
- he'd say to me, "Maggie, do you wanna dance?" And I'd say,
- "Daddy, I would love to dance!"
- SHEILA, BEBE and MAGGIE
- Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
- But it was clear when he proposed
- That I was born to help their marriage and when
- That's what he said,
- That's what she said,
- I used to dance around the living room
- He wasn't warm, not to her
- MAGGIE
- It was an Indian chief and he said
- "Maggie, do you wanna dance?"
- And I said, "Daddy, I would love to."
- Ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet.
- Raise your arms and someone's always there
- Yes, ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet
- At the ballet... At the ballet...
- SHEILA, BEBE and MAGGIE
- Yes ev'rything was beautiful at the ballet
- Hey!
- I was pretty
- I was happy
- "I would love to..."
- At the ballet.
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