My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
My Gal is a High-Born Lady My Gal is a High-Born Lady "My Gal is a High-Born Lady" (Alternative titles: "My Gal is a High Born Lady", "My Gal's a High Born Lady") is a minstrel song was written by Barney Fagan and Gustav Luders (music) in 1896. It was a favourite well into the first half of the 20th century and is still performed today, often in bluegrass style. Its unusual ragtime rhythm is regarded as seminal in the later popularity of the Foxtrot. The original lyrics are offensive to modern culture due to their racial stereotypes and the song is notable for how often