SALLY BOWLES:

If anyone should ask you about me one day, Cliff, you have two alternatives

You can either say, yes it's true, we're living in delicious sin, or you can

Simply tell them the truth and say,

I met this perfectly marvelous girl,

In this perfectly wonderful place,

As I lifted the glass to the start of this marvelous year

Before you knew would she call on the phone inviting

Next moment I was no longer alone, but set reciting

Some perfectly beautiful buzz

In my charming American style

How I dazzled the senses with truly no less than a guile

Now I've this perfectly marvelous girl

In my perfectly beautiful room

And we're living together and having a marvelous time...

CLIFF:

Oh, Sally, I'm afraid it wouldn't work.

You're much too distracting.

SALLY:

Distracting? No, inspiring!

She tells me perfectly marvelous tales

Of her prettily scandalous life

Which I'll probably use

As a chapter or two in my book

and since my stay in Berlin was to force creation

What luck to fall on a fabulous source of stimulation

That perfectly marvelous tool

Is a perfect dream to be

Just as still as a mouse fall

I'm giving my novel a word

Yes, I've the highly agreeable life

In my perfectly beautiful room

With my nearly invisible

Perfectly marvelous girl.

CLIFF:

I met this truly remarkable girl

In this really incredible town

And she still fully managed to

Talk away into my room

SALLY:

Oh, Cliff!

CLIFF:

I have a terrible feeling I said a dumb thing

Besides I've only got one narrow bed...

SALLY:

We'll think of something!

CLIFF:

And now this wild unpredictable girl

SALLY:

And this perfectly beautiful man

BOTH:

We'll be living together

And having a marvelous time!