There Is Nothin' Like A Dame

(album: As Long As She Needs Me - 1961)

We got sunlight on the sand
We got moonlight on the sea
We got mangoes and bananas
You can pick right off the 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 darn well

We have nothing to put on a clean white suit for
We got nothing to look masculine and cute for

There is nothing like a dame
Nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame

We feel lonely and we long for
For the fair and gentle sex
We would like to feel the feeling
Of some arms around our necks
We feel as hungry as the wolf felt
When he met Red Riding Hood
Now what don't we feel?
We don't feel good

Lots of things in life are beautiful, but brother
There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever
In any way, shape, fashion, or form to do with any other

There is nothing like a dame
Nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame

There are no books like a dame
And nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothing thinks like a dame
And 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 pulling him near
A girly, womanly, female, feminine dame