[SENEX, spoken] Maids like me. Im neat. I like maids. Theyre neat. Something no household should be without. sung Everybody ought to have a maid [PSEUDOLUS] Everybody ought to have a maid [SENEX] Everybody ought to have a working girl Everybody ought to have a lurking girl To putter around the house Everybody ought to have a maid [PSEUDOLUS] Everybody ought to have a maid [SENEX] Everybody ought to have a menial Consistently congenial And quieter than a mouse Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delicious Tidying up the dishes Neat as a pin? Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delightful Sweeping out, sleeping in? Everybody ought to have a maid [PSEUDOLUS] Everybody ought to have a maid [SENEX] Someone who you hire When youre short of help To offer you the sort of help You never get from a spouse Fluttering up the stairway Shuttering up the windows Cluttering up the bedroom Buttering up the master Puttering all around the house! Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delicious Tidying up the dishes Neat as a pin? Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delightful Sweeping out, sleeping in? Everybody ought to have a maid [PSEUDOLUS] Everybody ought to have a maid [SENEX] Someone who, when fetching you your slipper, will Be winsome as a whippoorwill And graceful as a grouse Skittering down the hallway Flittering through the parlor Tittering in the pantry Littering up the bedroom [SENEX PSEUDOLUS] Twittering all around the house! [HYSTERIUM] A maid? [SENEX] A maid [PSEUDOLUS] A maid [SENEX. PSEUDOLUS HYSTERIUM] A maid! Everybody ought to have a maid Everybody ought to have a serving girl A loyal and unswerving girl Whos quieter than a mouse [HYSTERIUM] Oh! Oh! Think of her at the dustbin Specially when shes just been Traipsing about [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS HYSTERIUM] Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delightful [HYSTERIUM] Living in... [SENEX] Giving out... [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS HYSTERIUM] Everybody ought to have a maid Daintily collecting bits of paper n strings Appealing in her apron strings And graceful as a grouse [HYSTERIUM] Pattering through the attic [SENEX] Chattering in the cellar [PSEUDOLUS] Clattering in the kitchen [SENEX] Flattering in the bedroom [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS HYSTERIUM] Puttering all around the house! The house! The house! The house! [LYCUS] A maid? [HYSTERIUM] A maid [SENEX] A maid [PSEUDOLUS] A maid! [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS, HYSTERIUM LYCUS] Everybody ought to have a maid Someone whos efficient and reliable Obedient and pliable And quieter than a mouse! Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be so nimble Fiddling with her thimble Mending her gown? Oh! Oh! Wouldnt she be delightful [LYCUS] Cleaning up... [SENEX] Leaning down! [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS, HYSTERIUM LYCUS] Everybody ought to have a maid Someone wholl be busy as a bumblebee And even if you grumble, be As graceful as a grouse! [LYCUS] Wriggling in the anteroom [HYSTERIUM] Jiggling in the dining room [PSEUDOLUS] Giggling in the living room [SENEX] Wiggling in the other rooms [SENEX, PSEUDOLUS, HYSTERIUM LYCUS] Puttering all around the house! The house! The house! The house!
senex, pseudolus, maid, hysterium, ought