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At the Ballet
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Barbra Streisand
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[SHEILA:]
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Daddy always thought that he married beneath him.
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That's what he said, that's what he said.
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When he proposed he informed my mother
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He was probably her very last chance.
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And though she was twenty-two,
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Though she was twenty-two,
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Though she was twenty-two,
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She married him.
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Life with my dad wasn't ever a picnic
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More like a 'Come as you are.'
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When I was five I remember my mother
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Dug earrings out of the car
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I knew they weren't hers, But it wasn't
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Something you'd want to discuss.
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He wasn't warm.
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Well, not to her.
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Well, not to us
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But
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Everything was beautiful at the ballet.
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Graceful men lift lovely girls in white.
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Yes,
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Everything was beautiful at the ballet.
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I was happy... at the ballet.
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That's why I started class...
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[SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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Up a steep and very narrow stairway.
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To the voice like a metronome.
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Up a steep and very narrow stairway.
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[SHEILA:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[BEBE:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[MAGGIE:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[MAGGIE, SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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But it was home.
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[BEBE:]
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Mother always said I'd be very attractive
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When I grew up, when I grew up.
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'Diff'rent,' she said, 'With a special something
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And a very, very personal flair.'
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And though I was eight or nine,
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Though I was eight or nine,
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Though I was eight or nine,
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I hated her.
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Now,
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'Diff'rent' is nice, but it sure isn't pretty.
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'Pretty' is what it's about.
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I never met anyone who was 'diff'rent'
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Who couldn't figure that out.
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So beautiful I'd never lived to see.
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But it was clear
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If not to her
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Well, then to me
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That
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[MAGGIE AND BEBE:]
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Everyone is beautiful at the ballet.
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Every prince has got to have his swan.
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Yes,
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Everyone is beautiful at the ballet.
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[BEBE:]
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I was pretty...
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[SHEILA:]
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At the ballet
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[MAGGIE, SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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Up a steep and very narrow stairway
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To the voice like a metronome.
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Up a steep and very narrow stairway
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[SHEILA:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[BEBE:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[MAGGIE:]
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It wasn't paradise...
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[MAGGIE, SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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But it was home.
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[MAGGIE (Spoken):]
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I don't know what they were for or against, really,
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except each other.
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I mean I was born to save their marriage
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but when my father came to pick my mother up at the hospital
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he said, 'Well, I thought this was going to help.
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but I guess it's not...'
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Anyway, I did have a fantastic fantasy life.
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I used to dance around the living room
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with my arms up like this
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My fantasy was that there was an Indian Chief...
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And he'd say to me,
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'Maggie, do you wanna dance?'
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And I'd say, 'Daddy, I would love to dance!'
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[MAGGIE:]
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But it was clear...
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When he proposed...
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That I was born to help their marriage and when
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[SHEILA:]
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That's what he said...
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[BEBE:]
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That's what she said...
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[MAGGIE:]
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I used to dance around the living room...
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[SHEILA:]
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He wasn't warm...
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[BEBE:]
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Not to her...
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[MAGGIE:]
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It was an Indian chief and he'd say:
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'Maggie, do you wanna dance?'
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And I'd say, 'Daddy, I would love to...'
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[SHEILA:]
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Everything was beautiful at the ballet
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Raise your arms and someone's always there.
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Everything was beautiful at the ballet
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At the ballet
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At the ballet!!!
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[MAGGIE, SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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Yes everything was beautiful at the ballet.
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[BEBE:]
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I was pretty...
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[SHEILA:]
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I was happy...
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[MAGGIE:]
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'I would love to...'
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[MAGGIE, SHEILA AND BEBE:]
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At...the...ballet
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