Performing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (from Wikipedia)
This week’s Featured Lyrics are to Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Best and are from songwriter Martin Gordon and were made most famous by Marilyn Monroe. We’re posting lyrics of hit songs so that our songwriters can study them to see how winning songs are constructed. Of course a lot depends on the melody, the rhythm and the artist as to whether or not the song will sell… and whether or not it is in the right place at the right time!
Lyrics to “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”
The French are glad to die for love.
They delight in fighting duels.
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels.
A kiss on the hand
May be quite continental,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
A kiss may be grand
But it won’t pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat.
Men grow cold
As girls grow old,
And we all lose our charms in the end.
But square-cut or pear-shaped,
These rocks don’t loose their shape.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
Tiffany’s!
Cartier!
Black Starr!
Frost Gorham!
Talk to me Harry Winston.
Tell me all about it!
There may come a time
When a lass needs a lawyer,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
There may come a time
When a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you’re awful nice,
But get that ice or else no dice.
He’s your guy
When stocks are high,
But beware when they start to descend.
It’s then that those louses
Go back to their spouses.
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
I’ve heard of affairs
That are strictly platonic,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
And I think affairs
That you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets
If little pets get big baguettes.
Time rolls on,
And youth is gone,
And you can’t straighten up when you bend.
But stiff back
Or stiff knees,
You stand straight at Tiffany’s.
Diamonds! Diamonds!
I don’t mean rhinestones!
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
Written by Martin Gordon
Published by Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
http://www.metrolyrics.com/diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend-lyrics-marilyn-monroe.html
[The website has a video of Marilyn singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.]