Your Fault

But it isn't my fault, I was given those beans
You persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans
And without those beans, there'd have been no stalk
To get up to the giants in the first place

Wait a minute, magic beans for a cow so old
But you had to tell a lie to sell it, which you told
Were they worthless beans? Were they oversold?
Oh, and tell us, who persuaded you to steal that gold?

See, it's your fault! (No!)
Yes, it's your fault (no!)
Yes, it is! (It's not!)
It's true

Wait a minute though
I only stole the gold to get my cow back from you
So it's your fault! (Yes!)
No, it isn't!

I'd have kept those beans, but our house was cursed
She made us get the cow to get the curse reversed
It's his father's fault that the curse got placed
And the place got cursed in the first place

Oh, then it's his fault! (So)
It was his fault! (No)
Yes, it is, it's his (I guess)
Wait a minute though

I chopped down the beanstalk, right? That's clear
But without any beanstalk, then what's queer is
How did the second giant get down here
In the first place, second place? (Yes!)
How? Hmm?

Well, who had the other bean?
The other bean? The other bean?
You pocketed the other bean
I didn't, yes, I did

So it's your fault!
No, it isn't, 'cause I gave it to my wife
So it's her fault!
No, it isn't! (Then whose is it?)
Wait a minute!

She exchanged that bean to obtain your shoe
So the one who knows what happened to that bean is you
You mean that old bean that your wife - oh, dear
But I never knew, and so, I threw, well, don't look here!

So it's your fault! (But-)
See, it's her fault! (But-)
And it isn't mine at all! (But what?)
Well, if you hadn't gone back up again

We were needy (you were greedy!)
Did you need that hen?
But I got it for my mother!
So it's her fault then!

Yes, and what the harp in the third place? (The harp, yes)
She went and dared me to (I dared you to?)
You dared me to, she said that I was scared (me?)
So she dared me (no, I didn't)

So it's your fault! (Wait a minute!)
If you hadn't dared him to-
And you had left the harp alone
We wouldn't be in trouble (well, if you hadn't thrown away)
In the first place (the bean in the first place)

Well, if she hadn't raised them
It was your fault (in the first place)
Yes, if you hadn't raised them in the first place
Right! It's you, you raised the beans in the first place

It's your fault
You're responsible, you're the one to blame
It's your fault



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Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim
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