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"Without You" is a song featured in the 1964 film My Fair Lady with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. In the song, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) finds Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) gone and searches for her, eventually finding her at his mother's house. Higgins attempts to talk Eliza into coming back to him. He becomes angered when she announces that she is going to marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett) and become Zoltan Karpathy (Theodore Bikel)'s assistant.

Lyrics[]

Eliza:
What a fool I was, what a dominated fool
To think that you were the earth and the sky
What a fool I was
What an addlepated fool
What a muddle-headed dolt was I!
No, my reverberated friend
You are not the beginning and the end

Higgins (speaking):
You impudent hussy! There's not an idea in your head or a word in your mouth that I haven't put there.

Eliza:
There'll be spring every year without you
England still will be here without you
There'll be fruit on the tree
And a shore by the sea
There'll be crumpets and tea without you

Art and music will thrive without you
Somehow Keats will survive without you
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain
Even that will remain without you
I can do without you

You, dear friend, who taught so well
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire

They can still rule with land without you
Windsor Castle will stand without you
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you

Higgins (speaking):
You brazen hussy!

Eliza:
Without your pulling it the tide comes in
Without your twirling it the Earth can spin
Without your pulling it, the tide comes in
Without your twirling it, the earth can spin
Without your pushing them, the clouds roll by
If they can do without you, ducky, so can I

I shall not feel alone without you
I can stand on my own without you
So go back in your shell
I can do bloody well
Without...

Higgins (singing):
By George, I really did it
I did it, I did it
I said I'd make a woman and indeed I did
I knew that I could do it
I knew it, I knew it
I said I'd make a woman and succeed I did!

Higgins (speaking):
Eliza, you are wonderful!


v - e - d
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Media
My Fair Lady (soundtrack/video)
Characters
Eliza DoolittleProfessor Henry HigginsAlfred P. DoolittleColonel PickeringMrs. HigginsFreddy Eynsford-HillZoltan KarpathyMrs. PearceMrs. Eynsford-Hill
Locations
Covent GardenHiggins's HouseLondonAscot RacecourseEmbassy Ball
Songs
Why Can't The English?Wouldn't It Be Loverly?With A Little Bit Of LuckI'm an Ordinary ManJust You WaitThe Rain in SpainI Could Have Danced All NightAscot GavotteOn the Street Where You LiveYou Did ItShow MeGet Me To The Church On TimeA Hymn to HimWithout YouI've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
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