Poor Baby lyrics

[SARAH]
Darling—

[HARRY]
Yes?

[SARAH]
Robert—

[HARRY]
What?

[SARAH]
I worry

[HARRY]
Why?

[SARAH]
He's all alone

[HARRY, spoken]
Hmm

[SARAH]
There's no one—
[HARRY]
Where?

[SARAH]
In his life

[HARRY]
Oh

[SARAH]
Robert ought to have a woman

Poor baby, all alone
Evening after evening by the telephone—
We're the only tenderness he's ever known
Poor baby

[JENNY]
David—

[DAVID]
Yes?

[JENNY]
Robert—
[DAVID]
What?

[JENNY]
I worry

[DAVID]
Why?

[JENNY]
It's such a waste

[DAVID, spoken]
Hmm

[JENNY]
There's no one—

[DAVID]
Where?

[JENNY]
In his life

[DAVID]
Oh
[JENNY]
Robert ought to have a woman

Poor baby, sitting there
Staring at the walls and playing solitaire
Making conversation with the empty air—
Poor baby

[Later, as ROBERT takes APRIL to bed]

[SARAH]
Robert...

[JENNY]
Bobby...

[SARAH]
Robert, angel...

[JENNY]
Bobby, honey...

[SARAH]
You know no one
Wants you to be happy
More than I do
No one
But isn't she a little bit, well

[SARAH & JENNY]
You know...? (You know)
Face it (No one)
Why her? (Wants you to be happy more than I do)
Better (No one)
No one (But)

[SARAH & JENNY, SUSAN]
Isn't she a little bit, well
You know (You know)
Face it— (No one)

[SARAH, SUSAN, JENNY, AMY & JOANNE]
Why these (Wants you to be happy) (Why her?)
Meaningless (I do) (Better) (You know)
Relationships (No one) (No one) (No one)

[SARAH, SUSAN & JENNY, AMY & JOANNE]
They can't make you (But isn't she a) (Wants you to be)
Happy (Little bit, well) (Happy more than)
But you know (You know) (I do)

[SARAH, JENNY, AMY & JOANNE, SUSAN]
Better (Better) (No one. But) (Face it)

[WIVES]
Isn't she a little bit, well—

[SARAH]
Dumb?

[AMY]
Tacky?

[SUSAN]
Vulgar?

[JENNY]
Old?

[JOANNE]
Tall?

[SUSAN]
Aggressive?

[AMY]
Neurotic?

[SARAH]
Where is she from?

[JENNY]
And cheap?

[SUSAN]
Peculiar?

[JOANNE]
She's tall enough to be your mother

[AMY]
She seems so dead

[JENNY]
And gross and

[SARAH]
She's very weird

[SUSAN]
Depressing and

[AMY]
And immature?

[JOANNE]
Goliath...

[WIVES]
Poor baby
All alone
Throw a lonely dog a bone
It's still a bone
We're the only tenderness
He's ever known
Poor baby...