Original Broadway Cast of Pacific Overtures & Isao Sato & Mako Iwamatsu
Alvin Ing & Ricardo Tobia
Jae Woo Lee, Mark Hsu Syers & Mako
Original Broadway Cast of Pacific Overtures & Mark Syers & Patrick Kinser-Lau & Gedde Watanabe & & & & & Mako Iwamatsu & Alvin Ing
Isao Sato & Sab Shimono
Original Broadway Cast of Pacific Overtures & Mark Syers & Mako Iwamatsu & Gedde Watanabe & James Dybas
James Dybas, Mako, Gedde Watanabe & Mark Hsu Syers
Original Broadway Cast of Pacific Overtures & Mark Syers & James Dybas & Patrick Kinser-Lau & & & Mako Iwamatsu & Alvin Ing
Isao Sato
Patrick Kinser-Lau, Timm Fujii & Mark Hsu Syers
Original Broadway Cast of Pacific Overtures & Mako Iwamatsu
Based on the original 1976 Broadway staging by Stephen Sondheim, this song centers around three British sailors singing to a young Japanese woman quietly tending a garden. The sailors are in Japan on leave and notice the young woman while walking around. Struck by her beauty, they “serenade” her, mi...
[THIRD SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the pretty garden, can'tcher stay?
Pretty lady, we got leave and we got paid today
Pretty lady with a flower
Give a lonely sailor 'alf an hour
Pretty lady, can you understand a word I say?
Don't go away
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady, you're the cleanest thing I've seen all year
Pretty lady, you're enough to make me glad I'm here
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady, could I hear you laugh?
I ain't heard a lady laugh in who knows how long
[THIRD SAILOR]
Pretty lady, I'm a million miles from Stepney Green
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady, how about it?
[THIRD SAILOR]
You are the softest thing I ever seen
[SECOND SAILOR]
I'll sing a song for you
[FIRST SAILOR]
Don'tcher know how long I been without it?
[SECOND SAILOR]
Tell you tales of adventuring, strange and fantastical
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the garden, wotcher say?
[THIRD SAILOR]
Stay with me please, I been away so long
[FIRST SAILOR]
Can'tcher stay?...
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady, I ain't never been away from home
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady, beg your pardon
[FIRST SAILOR]
Hey, wait, don't go yet
[THIRD SAILOR]
Don't be afraid...
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady with the pretty bow
[THIRD SAILOR]
Hey, no, listen, pretty lady, beg your pardon
[FIRST SAILOR]
Please don't go, it's early
[THREE SAILORS]
Won'tcher walk me through your pretty garden?
[THIRD SAILOR]
Pretty lady, look, I'm on my knees
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady, look, I'm on my knees
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady, look, I'm on my knees
[THREE SAILORS]
Pretty please
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the pretty garden, won't you stay?
[SECOND & THIRD SAILORS]
Pretty lady, we got leave and we got paid today
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady with a flower
[THREE SAILORS]
Give a lonely sailor 'alf an hour
[FIRST SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the pretty garden, won'tcher stay?
[SECOND SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the pretty garden, won'tcher stay?
[THIRD SAILOR]
Pretty lady in the pretty garden, won'tcher stay?
[FIRST SAILOR]
Why can't you stay?
[SECOND SAILOR]
I sailed the world for you!
[THIRD SAILOR]
Don't go away
Pretty Lady was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Pretty Lady was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Patrick Kinser-Lau, Timm Fujii & Mark Hsu Syers released Pretty Lady on Sun Feb 01 1976.