South Pacific: There Is Nothin' Like a Dame

We got sunlight on the sand

We got moonlight on the sea

We got mangoes and bananas

You can pick right off a tree

We got volleyball and ping-pong

And a lot of dandy games

What ain't we got?

We ain't got dames!

We get packages from home

We get movies, we get shows

We get speeches from our skipper

And advice from Tokyo Rose

We get letters doused with perfume

We get dizzy from the smell

What don't we get?

You know damn well!

We got nothin' to put on a clean white suit for

What we need is what there ain't no substitute for

There is nothin' like a dame

Nothin' in the world

There is nothing you can name

That is anything like a dame

We feel restless, we feel blue

We feel lonely and in brief

We feel every kind of feeling

But the feeling of relief

We feel hungry as the wolf felt

When he met Red Riding Hood

What don't we feel?

We don't feel good!

Lots of things in life are beautiful, but brother

Oh, there is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever

In any way, shape, or form, ha, like any other

There is nothing like a dame

Nothin' in the world

There is nothing you can name

That is anything like a dame

Nothing else is built the same

Nothin' in the world

Has a soft and wavy frame

Like the silhouette of a dame

There is absolutely nothin' like the frame

Of a dame

So suppose that dame ain't bright

Or completely free from flaws

Or as faithful as a bird dog

Or as kind as Santa Claus

It's a waste of time to worry

Over things that they have not

Be thankful for

The things they've got!

There is nothing you can name

That is anything like a dame

There are no books like a dame (No)

And nothing looks like a dame

There are no drinks like a dame (Ha ha ha)

And nothing thinks like a dame (Yeah)

Nothing acts like a dame

Or attracts like a dame

There ain't a thing that's wrong with any man here

That can't be cured by puttin' him near

A girly, womanly, female, feminine dame