The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (You'd Like To Hear) (Original Cast Recording/1979)

When will the chorus girl ever learn?

When will the chorus girl ever learn?
- The chorus girl hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't go scrambling over the backs of the poor to be accepted
By making donations just large enough
To the correct charities
She won't be president of your
Wonderful societies of philanthropy
Even if you asked her to be
As you should have asked her to be
The actress hasn't learned the lines
You'd like to hear
She won't join your clubs
She won't dance in your halls
She won't help the hungry once a month
At your tombolas
She'll simply take control

- Forgive my intrusion
But fine as those sentiments sound
Little has changed for us peasants down here on the ground
I hate to seem childish, ungrateful
I don't like to moan
But do you now represent anyone's cause
But your own?
- Everything done will be justified by my foundation