John Kander
It Couldn’t Please Me More (A Pineapple)
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
If you bought me diamonds
If you bought me pearls
If you bought me roses
Like some other gents
Might bring to other girls
It couldn't please me more
Than the gift I see
A pineapple for me

[SCHULTZ]
If in your emotion
You begin to sway
Went to get some air
Or grabbed a chair
To keep from fainting dead away
It couldn't please me more
Than to see you cling
To the pineapple I bring

[BOTH]
Ah

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
I can hear Hawaiian breezes blow
[BOTH]
Ah

[SCHULTZ]
It's from California

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Even so
How am I to thank you?

[SCHULTZ]
Kindly let it pass

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Would you like a slice?

[SCHULTZ]
That might be nice
But frankly, it would give me gas

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
Then we shall leave it here
Not to eat, but see

[BOTH]
A pineapple
[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
For me

[SCHULTZ]
From me

[BOTH]
Ah

[Dance Break]

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER, spoken]
But you must not bring me any more pineapples
Do you hear? It is not proper
It is a gift a young man would bring to his lady-love
It makes me blush

[SCHULTZ, spoken]
But there is no-one... no-one in all of Berlin who is more deserving
If I could, I would fill your entire room with pineapples!
A pineapples
For you

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER]
From you
[BOTH, with Emcee]
Ah...
Ah...

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER, spoken]
I think I will lie down for a few moments
My head is spinning!

[SCHULTZ, spoken]
Fraulein Schneider... good evening

[FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER, spoken]
Good evening, Herr Schultz
(Opens her bedroom door, turns to Schultz)
I am... overwhelmed!
(She goes in and closes the door)