We got sunlight on the sand, we got moonlight on the sea

We got mangoes and bananas you can pick right off a tree

We got volleyball and ping-pong and a lot o' dandy games

What ain't we got, we ain't got dames



We get packages from home, we get movies, we get shows

We get speeches from our skipper and advice from Tokyo Rose

We get letters doused with perfume, we get dizzy from the smell

What don't we get, you know darn well



We got nothin' to put on a clean white - shirt for

What we need is what there ain't no substitute for

There is nothing like a dame, nothin' in the world

There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame



We feel restless, we feel blue, we feel lonely and in grief

We feel every kind of feeling but the feeling of relief

We feel hungry as the wolf felt when he met Red Riding Hood

What don't we feel, we don't feel good



Lots of things in life are beautiful but - brother

There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever

In any way, shape or form like any other

There is nothing like a dame, nothin' in the world

There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame



Nothin' else is built the same, nothin' in the world

As a soft and wavy frame, like the silhouette of a dame



There is absolutely nothin' like the frame - of - a - dame...



There are no books like a dame, and nothin' looks like a dame

There are no drinks like a dame, nothin' thinks like a dame

Nothin' acts like a dame, or attracts like a dame

There ain't a thing that's cloned with any man here

That can't be good by putting them near

And they want a big, thin and feminine dame...