Out on a Limerick (Rosa Bud) Original Broadway Cast of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Ft. Patti Cohenour)

[ROSA]
Thank God for that!
The sheep has been sheared!
I don’t know how men live through heat with a beard
Gladly I shed this tent of a coat
My explanation I now emote:

My motive in taking this role
Of a wigged and white-whiskered soul
Was to ably disguise
My most feminine size
When I’d take an enquiring stroll

For strangers who’ll chat with a chap
And reveal this and that in a snap
Are remarkably leery
Of women who query too much
It’s a great handicap

So this disguise saw me through it
Playing the part of a man!
Really there’s nothing much to it--
Most any animal can!
Climbing out on a limerick, out on a limerick
Out on a limerick air!