"The Sadder but Wiser Girl" is a song featured in the 1962 film The Music Man with music and lyrics written by Meredith Willson. In the song, Professor Harold Hill tells Marcellus Washburn that his interests in women are not toward the pure and wholesome type, but the worldly and more experienced type, which he now perceives Marian Paroo to be.
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No wide-eyed, eager, wholesome, innocent
Sunday-school teacher for me
That kinda gal spins webs
No spider ever
Now, listen boy
A gal who trades on all that purity
Merely wants to trade
My independence for her security
The only affirmative she will file
Refers to marching down the aisle
No golden, glorious, gleaming pristine goddess, no sir!
For no Diana do I play faun, I can tell you that right now
I snarl, I hiss, how can ignorance be compared to bliss?
I spark, I fizz, for the lady who knows what time it is
I cheer, I rave, for the virtue, I'm too late to save
The sadder but wiser girl for me
No bright-eyed, blushing,
Breathless baby-doll baby, no sir!
That kinda child ties knots
No sailor ever knew
I prefer to take a chance
On a more adult romance
No dewy young miss who keeps resisting
All the time she keeps insisting
No bright-eyed, wholesome,
Innocent female, no sir!
Why, she's the fisherman,
I'm the fish, you see? Plop!
I flinch, I shy
When the lass with the delicate air walks by
I smile, I grin
When the gal with a touch of sin walks in
I hope, and I pray
For Hester to win just one more 'A'
The sadder but wiser girl's the girl for me
The sadder but wiser girl for me
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