How Many Woman?

Florence
How many women would drive themselves crazy
By arguing over a game of chess?
Not very many the ways things are going
There'll soon be one less

Freddie
Don't believe you sweetie pie -

Florence
Listen, Freddie - I too had ambitions
How did I get waylaid?
How can such a flower
A sensitive soul, a delicate child
Wind up as a nursemaid
Respectably set for the glittering prizes
Instead of which I landed you -

Freddie
You'll get your prizes
I'm ninety per cent of the way to the top of the heap

Florence
Thanks - ten per cent - you got me cheap

Freddie
No, no Florence - I mean we are ninety per cent of the way -

Florence
How many women, articulate women
With something to shout about
Spend their time
Playing a game in which silence is golden
And speaking a crime

Freddie
Maybe if he moved his king

Florence
All of my struggles for qualifications
My nights with Goethe and Proust
Recklessly abandoned
For you who thinks Chekov is king to G3
And Joyce my college roommate!
But then when I show you a move you can't fathom
I have to admit it feels great -

Freddie
Great news for chess fans
Yeah, that's how he did it
Yeah, that's how the communist plays!

Florence
Maybe I deserve a raise