Guys and Dolls, Act II Scene 1: No. 21a, Take Back Your Mink (《红男绿女》第二幕第一场：第21a首，收回你的貂皮大衣)

"Adelaide (sings)

He bought me the fur thing,

Five winters ago

And the gown the following fall.

Then the necklace,

The bag,

The gloves

And the hat,

That was late forty-eight,

I recall.

(suddenly indignant)

Then last night in his apartment

He tried to remove them all!

(continues resentfully)

And I said as I ran down the hall,

(now with hurt feelings)

Take back your mink,

Take back your pearls,

What made you think

That I was one of those girls?

Take back the gown,

The shoes and the hat.

I may be down,

But I’m not flat

As all that!

I thought that each expensive gift you’d arrange

Was a token of your esteem.

Now when I think of what you want in exchange,

It all seems a horrible dream.

So – take back your mink

To from whence it came

And tell them to

(angrily)

Hollanderize it

For some other dame.

Adelaide and Dolls (sing)

Take back your mink,

(throw cigarette holders in music pit. Take off mink)

Take back your pearls,

(take off pearls)

What made you think

That I was one of those girls?

(raucously)

I’m screaming,

Take back the gown,

(take off gowns)

Take back the hat.

(take off hats and throw them upstage)

I may be down,

But I’m not flat

As all that!

I thought that each expensive gift you’d arrange

Was a token of your esteem,

But when I think of what you want in exchange,

It all seems a horrible dream – (eek!).

Take back your mink,

Those old worn out pelts,

And go shorten the sleeves

For somebody else.

(Adelaide and Dancing Girls go into their dance. At end of dance Adelaide and Four Girls exit upstage left. Four Girls exit stage left then they immediately re-enter, running downstage and gather up in their arms all the clothes that had been discarded during the dance.)

Adelaide and All Dolls (shouted to the audience)

Well?

Wouldn’t you?"