Overture: Six Months Out of Every Year

When we met in 1938
It was November
When I said that I would be his mate
It was December
I reasoned he would be the greatest husband
That a girl had ever found
That's what I reasoned
That's what I reasoned
Then April rolled around
Joe: Strike 3! Ball 4! Walk or run'll tie the score
Yer blind ump! Yer blind ump!
You must be out of your mind ump!
Six months out of year
I might as well be made of stone
Six months out of every year
When I'm with him
I'm alone
Six months out of every year
He doesn't take me anywhere
Six months out of every year
When I play cards
Solitaire
The other six months out of every year
We are hardly ever seen part
But then the Washington Senators
take over my place in his heart!
Six months out of every year I might as well be wearing crepe
Life is just an awful bore from which I found no escape
Six months out of every year
Husbands: Strike 3 ball 4
Walk or run'll tie the score
Fly ball, double play
Yankees win again today
Those damn Yankees!
Why can't we beat him?
He's out, he's safe, he's out, he's safe
He's out, he's safe, he's out
Yer blind ump! Yer blind ump!
You must be out of your mind ump!
Housewives: Six months out of every year
He lives by the television set
Husbands: He's out, he's safe, he's out
Housewives: If you see that man of mine
How does he look?
I forget (Leeeeet's go!)
Six months out of every year
We know there is no other dame
Husbands: He's out, he's safe, he's out
Housewives: If he isn't home by six it's six to one
There's a game (Leeeeet's go!)
Six months out of every year
When we cook for them it never pays
(Ugh.)
Instead of praising our goulash
They're appraising the plays of Willy Mays!
(He's out, he's safe, he's out, he's safe, he's out, he's safe, he's out)
Six months out of every year (Strike 3 ball 4, walk a run'll tie the score)
We might as well be wearing crepe (Fly ball double play, Yankees win again today)
Life is just an awful bore from which I find (Those damn Yankees, why can't we beat them?)
(He's out, he's safe, he's out, he's safe, he's out, he's safe, he's out)
No escape (Yer blind ump! Yer blind ump! You must be out of your mind ump!)
We're dying for the mercury to drop to 3 below (Leeeet's go!)
We're crying for the happy days of icicles and snow (Leeeet's go!)
We don't mind sleeping solo that is once a year or so (Those Damn Yankees...)
But with them it's a career!
(What are you waiting for?)
(April, May, June, July, August) Men! (September!) Bah!
April, May, June, July, August (Slide!) September (Oof!)
Six months out of every year! (Yer blind ump, yer blind ump, you must be out of your mind ump!)
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