1979 Broadway Cast of Oklahoma! & Laurence Guittard
1979 Broadway Cast of Oklahoma! & Laurence Guittard & Christine Andreas & Mary Wickes
1979 Broadway Cast of Oklahoma! & Christine Andreas & Laurence Guittard
1979 Broadway Cast of Oklahoma!
Original Broadway Cast of Flower Drum Song & Pat Suzuki
Mary Martin
Original Broadway Cast of The Sound of Music & Mary Susan Locke & Kathy Dunn & Lauri Peters & Joseph Stewart & Evanna Lien & William Snowden & Marilyn Rogers & Mary Martin
Theodore Bikel
The song was written in 1958 for the Broadway musical Flower Drum Song. Its lyrics and their bald-faced enjoyment about being objectified are now considered dated, though the song is still frequently performed.
(Verse)
I'm a girl and by me that's only great
I am proud that my silhouette is curvy
That I walk with a sweet and girlish gait
With my hips kind of swivelly and swervy
I adore being dressed in something frilly
When my date comes to get me at my place
Out I go with my Joe or John or Billy
Like a filly who is ready for the race
(Chorus)
When I have a brand new hairdo
With my eyelashes all in curls
I float as the clouds on air do
I enjoy being a girl
When men say I'm cute and funny
And my teeth aren't teeth but pearls
I just lap it up like honey
I enjoy being a girl
I flip when a fellow sends me flowers
I drool over dresses made of lace
I talk on the telephone for hours
With a pound and a half of cream upon my face
I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy, having a girl like me
When men say I'm sweet as candy
As around in a dance we whirl
It goes to my head like brandy
I enjoy being a girl
When someone with eyes that smolder
Says he loves every silken curl
That falls on my ivory shoulder
I enjoy being a girl
When I hear a complementary whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea
I turn and I glower and I gristle
But I'm happy to know the whistle's meant for me
I'm strictly a female female
And my future I hope will be
In the home of a brave and free male
Who'll enjoy being a guy, having a girl like me
I Enjoy Being a Girl was written by Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers & Rodgers & Hammerstein.
I Enjoy Being a Girl was produced by Didier C. Deutsch & Darcy Proper & Goddard Lieberson.