“There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame” LYRICS

Sailor:
We got sunlight on the sand,
We got moonlight on the sea—

Seabee:
We got mangoes and bananas
You can pick right off a tree—

Sailor:
We got volleyball and ping-pong
And a lot of dandy games—
What ain’t we got?

All:
We ain’t got dames!

Marine:
We get packages from home,

Sailor:
We get movies, we get shows—

Stewpot:
We get speeches from our skipper—

Soldier:
And advice from Tokyo Rose—

Seabee:
We get letters doused wit’ poifume—

Sailor:
We get dizzy from the smell—

Billis:
What don’t we get?

All:
You know damn well!

Billis:
We have nothin’ to put on a clean white suit for.
What we need is what there ain’t no substitute for.

All:
There is nothin’ like a dame—
Nothin’ in the world!
There is nothin’ you can name
That is anythin’ like a dame.

Marine:
We feel restless, we feel blue,

Seabee:
We feel lonely, and in brief,
We feel every kind of feelin’—

Professor:
But the feelin’ of relief.

Sailor:
We feel hungry as the wolf felt
When he met Red Riding Hood—

All:
What don’t we feel?

Stewpot:
We don’t feel good!

Billis:
Lots of things in life are beautiful, but, brother,
There is one particular thing that is nothin’ whatsoever in any way, shape, or form like any other.

All:
There is nothin’ like a dame—
Nothin’ in the world!
There is nothin’ you can name
That is anythin’ like a dame.

Nothin’ else is built the same!
Nothin’ in the world—

A Tenor:
Has a soft and wavy frame
Like the silhouette of a dame.

A Bass:
There is absolutely nothin’ like the frame of a dame!

Marine:
So suppose a dame ain’t bright

Sailor:
Or completely free from flaws—
Or as faithful as a bird dog—

Seabee:
Or as kind as Santa Claus—

Soldier:
It’s a waste of time to worry
Over things that they have not—

Sailor:
Be thankful for—

All:
The things they got!

There is nothin’ like a dame­–
Nothin’ in the world!
There is nothin’ you can name
That is anythin’ like a dame.

There are no books like a dame
And nothin’ looks like a dame.
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothin’ thinks like a dame.
Nothin’ 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!