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You Did It by Rex Harrison & Wilfred Hyde-White

Release Date
Wed Oct 21 1964
About

This song takes place after an event at the palace. Pickering and Higgins are congratulating each other on teaching Eliza to speak properly, but overlook all the work she had to do, basically ignoring her throughout the song.

You Did It Lyrics

[PICKERING]
Tonight, old man, you did it, you did it, you did it
You said that you would do it, and indeed you did
I thought that you would rue it, I doubted you'd do it
But now I must admit it, that succeed you did
You should get a medal or be even made a knight

[HIGGINS]
Oh, it was nothing...really nothing

[PICKERING]
All alone you hurdled every obstacle in sight

[HIGGINS]
Now, wait, now, wait
Give credit where it's due
A lot of the glory goes to you

[PICKERING]
But you're the one who did it, who did it, who did it
As sturdy as Gibraltar, not a second did you falter
There's no doubt about it
You did it

I must have aged a year tonight
At times I thought I'd die of fright
Never was there a momentary lull

[HIGGINS]
Shortly after we came in
I saw at once we'd easily win
And after that I found it deadly

[PICKERING]
You should have heard the ooh's and ah's
Everyone wondering who she was

[HIGGINS]
You'd think they'd never seen a lady before

[PCIKERING]
And when the Prince of Transylvania asked to meet her
And gave his arm to lead her to the floor

I said to him, you did it, you did it, you did it
They thought she was ecstatic
And so damned aristocratic
And they never knew, that you did it

[HIGGINS, spoken]
Thank goodness for Zoltan Karparthy
If it hadn't been for him I'd have died of boredom

[MRS. PEARCE, spoken]
Karparthy? That dreadful Hungarian?
Was he there?

[HIGGINS, spoken]
Yes, he was there, all right
And up to his old tricks

(sung)
That blaggard who uses the science of speech
More to blackmail and swindle than teach
He made it the devilish business of his
To find out who this Miss Doolittle is
Every time we looked around
There he was, that hairy hound from Budapest
Never leaving us alone
Never have I ever known a ruder pest
Finally I decided it was foolish
Not to let him have his chance with her
So I stepped aside and let him dance with her

Oozing charm from every pore
He oiled his way around the floor
Every trick that he could play
He used to strip her mask away
And when at last the dance was done
He glowed as if he knew he'd won
And with a voice too eager
And a smile too broad
He announced to the hostess
That she was a fraud

[MRS. PEARCE, spoken]
No

[HIGGINS]
Jawohl

Her English is too good, he said
That clearly indicates that she is foreign
Whereas others are instructed in their native language
English people aren't
And although she may have studied with an expert
Dialectician and grammarian
I can tell that she was born Hungarian
Not only Hungarian, but of royal blood
She is a princess
Her blood, he said, is bluer than the Danube is or ever was
Royalty is absolutely written on her face
She thought that l was taken in, but actually I never was
How could she deceive another member of her race?
I know each language on the map, said he
And she's Hungarian, as the first Hungarian Rhapsody

[SERVANTS]
Bravo, bravo, bravo
Congratulations, Professor Higgins
For your glorious victory
Congratulations, Professor Higgins
You'll be mentioned in history

[OTHER SERVANTS]
Congratulations, Professor Higgins
For your glorious victory
Congratulations
Professor Higgins
Sing hail and hallelujah
Ev'ry bit of credit
For it all belongs to you

[FOOTMAN]
This evening, sir, you did it, you did it, you did it
You said that you would do it and indeed you did
This evening, sir, you did it, you did it, you did it
We know that we have said it
But-you did it and the credit
For it all belongs to you

You Did It Q&A

Who wrote You Did It's ?

You Did It was written by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner.

When did Rex Harrison & Wilfred Hyde-White release You Did It?

Rex Harrison & Wilfred Hyde-White released You Did It on Wed Oct 21 1964.

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