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My Mother would sing this song for me. And Life has proven this to be so true.
TominTib
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
Harry Belafonte
Written by Harry Belafonte and Jack Segal
From his "Belafonte At Carnegie Hall" LP
I say
Let us put man and a woman together to find out which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no, the women got the men beat, they should know
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!), that's right, that's right
Ever since the world began, woman was always fooling man
And, if you listen to my bit attentively, I going tell ya how she smarter than me
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
In the Garden of Eden Adam built a home, when he settle down Eve start to roam
Many a night he spent in pain <stops and laughs> whenever Eve was Abel, she was
raisin' Cain
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!), that's right that's right
Ya meet a girl at a pretty dance thinking that you would stand a chance
Take her home thinkin' she's alone <stops and laughs> open the door, ya find her
husband home
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
I was treatin' a girl independently, she was makin' baby for me
When the baby born and I went to see <stops and laughs> the eyes of blue it was not
by me
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!)
That's right, the woman is (smarter!), that's right, that's right
Garden Of Eden was very nice, Adam never work in Paradise
Eve meets Nick, Paradise gone <stops and laughs> she make Adam work from that day
on
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in every way"
Methuselah spent all his life in fears, did without woman for 900 years
One day he decided to have some fun <stops and laughs> the poor man never lived to
see nine hundred and one
Ah, not me, but the people they say that the man has always led woman astray
But I say, please listen when I say "Smarter than the man in ev ery way"
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This is all that Harry sang in this specific performance and , during it, his backup orchestra chipped in with the (parentheticals.) Undoubtedly, given the "oral tradition" nature of calypso music, he must have sung it with many variations at other times.
Some KNOWN verse variations are:
Let us put men and women together, see which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no, women got the men like a puppet show.
Little boy sitting in the corner and cry, big man come and ask him why,
He said "I can't do what the big boys do", the man sat down and he cried too
Ever since the world began women been imitating the ways of men
But listen cause I've got a plan, give it up just don't try to understand
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