"You Did It" is a song featured in the 1964 film My Fair Lady with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner which takes place after an event at the palace. In the song, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) congratulate each other on teaching Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) to speak properly but overlook all the work she had to do, basically ignoring her throughout the song.
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Pickering (Higgins):
Tonight, old man, you did it! You did it! You did it!
You said that you would do it, and indeed you did.
I thought that you would rue it; I doubted you'd do it.
But now I must admit it, that succeed you did.
You should get a medal or be even made a knight.
Oh, it was nothing...really nothing
All alone you hurdled every obstacle in sight.
Now, wait! Now, wait! Give credit where it's due.
A lot of the glory goes to you.
But you're the one who did it, who did it, who did it!
As sturdy as Gibraltar, not a second did you falter.
There's no doubt about it, you did it!
I must have aged a year tonight.
At times I thought I'd die of fright.
Never was there a momentary lull
Shortly after we came in
I saw at once we'd easily win;
And after that I found it deadly dull.
You should have heard the ooh's and ah's;
Everyone wondering who she was.
You'd think they'd never seen a lady before.
And when the Prince of Transylvania asked to meet her,
And gave his arm to lead her to the floor
I said to him, you did it! You did it! You did it!
They thought she was ecstatic
And so d----- aristocratic,
And they never knew, that you did it!
Higgins (Mrs. Pearce) spoken:
Thank goodness for Zoltan Karparthy.
If it hadn't been for him I'd have died of boredom.
Karparthy? That dreadful Hungarian? Was he there?
Yes. He was there, all right.
And up to his old tricks.
Higgins:
That blaggard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach;
He made it the devilish business of his
To find out who this Miss Doolittle is.
Every time we looked around
There he was, that hairy hound From Budapest.
Never leaving us alone,
Never have I ever known a ruder pest
Finally I decided it was foolish
Not to let him have his chance with her.
So I stepped aside and let him dance with her.
Oozing charm from every pore
He oiled his way around the floor.
Every trick that he could play,
He used to strip her mask away.
And when at last the dance was done,
He glowed as if he knew he'd won!
And with a voice too eager,
And a smile too broad,
He announced to the hostess
That she was a fraud!
Mrs. Pearce:
No!
Higgins:
Jawohl!
Her English is too good, he said,
That clearly indicates that she is foreign.
Whereas others are instructed in their native language
English people aren't.
And although she may have studied with an expert
Dialectician and grammarian
I can tell that she was born...Hungarian!
Not only Hungarian, but of royal blood
She is a princess!
Her blood, he said, is bluer than the Danube is or ever was
Royalty is absolutely written on her face
She thought that l was taken in, but actually I never was
How could she deceive another member of her race?
I know each language on the map, said he
And she's Hungarian, as the first Hungarian Rhapsody
Servants:
Bravo, bravo, bravo
Congratulations, Professor Higgins,
For your glorious victory!
Congratulations, Professor Higgins!
You'll be mentioned in history!
Other Servants:
Congratulations, Professor Higgins!
For your glorious victory!
Congratulations, Professor Higgins!
Sing hail and hallelujah!
Ev'ry bit of credit
For it all belongs to you!
Footman:
This evening, sir, you did it! You did it! You did it!
You said that you would do it And indeed you did.
This evening, sir, you did it! You did it! You did it!
We know that we have said it,
But-you did it and the credit
For it all belongs to you!
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