Hymn to Him
Nat King Cole

What in all of heaven could've prompted her to go,
After such a triumph as the ball?
What could've depressed her,
What could've possessed her?
I cannot understand the wretch at all.

Women are irrational, that's all there is to that!
There heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!
They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
Vacillating, calculating, agitating,
Maddening and infuriating hags!

Pickering, why can't a woman be more like a man?

Hm

Yes,
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square,
Eternally noble, historic'ly fair,
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Well, why can't a woman be like that?
Why does ev'ryone do what the others do?
Can't a woman learn to use her head?
Why do they do ev'rything their mothers do?
Why don't they grow up- well, like their father instead?
Why can't a woman take after a man?
Men are so pleasant, so easy to please,
Whenever you are with them, you're always at ease.
Would you be slighted if I didn't speak for hours?

Of course not!

Would you be livid if I had a drink or two?

Nonsense.

Would you be wounded if I never sent you flowers?

Never.

Well, why can't a woman be like you?
One man in a million may shout a bit.
Now and then there's one with slight defects;
One, perhaps, whose truthfulness you doubt a bit.
But by and large we are a marvelous sex!
Why can't a woman take after like a man?
Cause men are so friendly, good natured and kind.
A better companion you never will find.
If I were hours late for dinner, would you bellow?

Of course not!

If I forgot your silly birthday, would you fuss?

Nonsense.

Would you complain if I took out another fellow?

Never.

Well, why can't a woman be like us?

Mrs. Pearce, you're a woman,
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so decent, such regular chaps.
Ready to help you through any mishaps.
Ready to buck you up whenever you are glum.
Why can't a woman be a chum?
Why is thinking something women never do?
Why is logic never even tried?
Straight'ning up their hair is all they ever do.

Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?
Why can't a woman behave like a man?
If I was a woman who'd been to a ball,
Been hailed as a princess by one and by all;
Would I start weeping like a bathtub overflowing?
And carry on as if my home were in a tree?
Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going?
Why can't a woman be like me?


  Purchase "Hymn to Him"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Hymn to Him" Video   Play Spotify "Hymn to Him" Song   View Wikipedia "Hymn to Him" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Nat King Cole Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Hymn to Him"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Nat King Cole

  A Hymn to Him   Adelita [With Mariachis]   Adelita [With Mariachis]   All by Myself [*]   All of You   Almost Like Being in Love [DVD]   Almost Like Being in Love [Version #2]   Almost Like Being in Love [Version 2]   An Old Piano Plays the Blues   Angel Eyes   Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere   Arriverderci Roma   Arriverderci Roma   Autumn Leaves [Live]   Ballerina [Live]   Barcarolle   Bedtime (Sleep Baby Sleep)   Besame Mucho   Blue and Sentimental   Blue Danube   Blueberry Hill   Blues in the Night   Body and Soul [Instrumental]   Bop-Kick [Instrumental]   Bring Another Drink   Buon Natale (Means Merry Christmas to You)   But Not for Me   By the River Sainte Marie   C Jam Blues   Candy [*]   Caravan [DVD]   Careless Love   Chant of the Blues (Dog-Gone Unlucky Blues)   Cherchez la Femme   Cherie, I Love You   Christmas Song   Crazy Rhythm [DVD]   Crazy Rhythm [Live]   Dance Ballerina Dance   Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup [Live]   Day In, Day Out   Dinner for One, Please, James   Dream a Little Dream of Me   Early American   Early Morning Blues   Every Time I Feel the Spirit   Exactly Like You [*]   For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You)   Friendless Blues   Frivolous Sal (My Gal Sal)   Funny (Not Much) [Live]   Georgia on My Mind   Get Me to the Church on Time   Get Out and Get Under the Moon   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)   Gone With the Draft [#1]   Gone With the Draft [#2]   Hit That Jive, Jack!   Hit That Jive, Jack! [Opening Theme]   Home (When Shadows Fall)   Homeward Bound   Honeysuckle Rose [Instrumental]   How Deep Is the Ocean?   How Does It Feel   How High the Moon   How High the Moon [Instrumental]   How Little We Know [#]   I Could Have Danced All Night   I Cried for You   I Dream of You   I Feel So Smoochie   I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten C...   I Found a New Baby   I Got Rhythm   I Just Found Out About Love   I Miss You So   I See Your Face Before Me   I Still See Elisa   I Surrender, Dear [Alternate Take][*]   I Want to Thank You Folks   I Want to Thank Your Folks   I Was a Little Too Lonely (And You Were a Little T...   I Wish I Knew   I Wish You Love [Live]   If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)   If I Had You   If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow   Imagination   In the Good Old Summertime   It All Depends on You   It Was So Good While It Lasted   Jealous Lover   Jet   Joe Turner Blues   Joe Turner Blues [Live]   Just for the Fun of It [Alternate Take]   Just One of Those Things (Piano Solo) [Instrumenta...   Just You, Just Me [DVD]   Just You, Just Me [Instrumental]   Knock Me a Kiss   Liebestraum   Lights Out   Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot   Lonesome Road   Look No Further [From No Strings]   Love Is Here to Stay   Love Letters [Mono Version]   Love Me Tender   Love Nest   Love You Madly   Love You Madly [Live]   Lover, Come Back to Me   Lovewise   Lucky Day   Memphis Blues   Miss Otis Regrets [Live]   Mona Lisa [DVD]   Mona Lisa [Live]   Mona Lisa [Medley]   Mood Indigo   Moon Love   Moon Song   Moonglow   Morning Star   Mutiny in the Nursery   My Flaming Heart   My Funny Valentine   My Funny Valentine [From the Talented Mr. Ripley]   My Heart Stood Still   My Heart Stood Still [Alternate Take][*]   My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)   My Kinda Love   My Kinda Love [Live]   My Mother Told Me [*]   My Sugar Is So Refined   My Sugar Is So Refined   Namely You   Namely You   Nature Boy [From Moulin Rouge]   Nice Work If You Can Get It   Oh, Lady Be Good   Old Man Moon   Old Piano Plays the Blues   On the Sidewalks of New York   Orange Colored Sky [From the Majestic]   People [From Funny Girl]   Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas)   Please Consider Me   Poor Butterfly   Portrait of Jennie   Portrait of Jennie [Mono Version]   Quizás, quizás, quizás   Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Perhaps, Perhaps,...   Repeat After Me   Save the Bones for Henry Jones   Save the Bones for Henry Jones [DVD]   Shoo Shoo Baby   Should I?   Should I? [#]   Silent Night [Instrumental]   Sing You Sinners   Smile [#]   Some Like It Hot   Somebody Loves Me [Live]   Something Makes Me Want to Dance With You   Somewhere Along the Way [DVD]   Stardust [From My Favorite Year]   Stardust [From Sleepless in Seattle]   Stay [*]   Stella by Starlight   Stormy Weather [Nat King Cole with Kay Starr]   Straight up and Fly Right   Sugar Sugar   Summertime   Sunday   Swanee River   Sweet Lorraine [*]   Sweet Lorraine [DVD]   Sweet Sue, Just You   Taking a Chance on Love   Tenderly [DVD]   Thank You Pretty Baby   The Ballad of Cat Ballou [From Cat Ballou]   The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)   The Blue Danube   The Christmas Song [1961]   The Christmas Song [Alternate Take]   The Christmas Song [DVD]   The Continental [Live]   The Hut Sut Song   The Late, Late Show   The Lonesome Road   The Love Nest   The Man I Love   The Man I Love [Instrumental]   The Man I Love [Version 2]   The Old Music Master   The Rain in Spain   The Sand and the Sea [Live]   The Sheik of Araby   The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)   The Song of Raintree County   The Surrey with the Fringe on Top   The Surrey with the Fringe on Top [Live]   Them There Eyes   There Is No Greater Love   There Is No Greater Love [*]   This Autumn   This Is Always   Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer   Thou Swell [Live]   To the Ends of the Earth [Live]   Too Marvelous for Words [*]   Too Young [#][*]   Toyland   Tres Palabras (Without You)   True Love   Two Loves Have I [*]   Unforgettable [#][*]   Unforgettable [Live]   Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)   What Does It Take   What Is This Thing Called Love? [Live]   When I Fall in Love [DVD]   When My Baby Walks Down the Street   When My Sugar Walks Down the Street   Where or When   Where or When [Live]   Who Do You Know in Heaven   Who Do You Know in Heaven (That Made You the Angel...   Wild Goose Chase   Wild Is Love (Finale)   Wine, Women and Song   With a Little Bit of Luck   Work Song   World in My Arms   You Are My First Love   You Are My First Love   You Can Depend on Me [*]   You Can Depend on Me [Alternate Take][#]   You Leave Me Breathless [Live]   You Stepped Out of a Dream [Live]

Related Songs

  Him Hymn - Rudimentary Peni  Seneca - Patti Smith  Stop Tricking - BRONCHO  A Hymn To Him - My Fair Lady  Hellhorn - Leverage  Yellow-Backed Fly - Steve Martin  Hymn For Her - Anchor & Braille  Hymn For Her - Anchor & Braille  Come & Worship - Don Moen  Come & Worship - Don Moen  Hymnals For The Heathen - Cursive  Hymns for the Heathen - Cursive  Hymn To the Sun - Anjali  Remnant Of A Hopeless Path - Deicide  Hymn 4 My Soul - Joe Cocker  Witness Of Death - Deicide  One Funeral Hymn for Three - Into Eternity  Dust Hymn - Purity Ring  O, Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis)...  Adeste Fidelis ( O, Come All Ye Faithful )...  Hymn For The Dead - Anti-Flag  Hymn For a New Age - Ray Davies  Hymn for a New Age [*] - Ray Davies  A-Part of God - Omnium Gatherum  Alleluia, Hearts To Heaven - Religious Music  For the Beauty of the Earth - Chris Rice  One Of The Broken - Prefab Sprout  Hymn To Love - Cyndi Lauper  With A Song In My Heart - José Carreras  My Confessionary Hymn - Joshua James  Hymn of a Broken Man - Times Of Grace  Hymn to Steel - Emerald  For The Beauty Of The Earth - Barlow Girl  Joyous Light (Hail Gladdening Light - Revised)...  Joyous Light (Hail Gladdening Light)...  For The Beauty Of The Earth - Religious Music  Joyous Light (Hail Gladdening Light) - Passion  The First Hymn - Eerie Von  Serve Hymn - Andrew Peterson  Pick Up the Pieces - The Sugi Tap  Hector's Hymn - Hammerfall  Ravens Hymns Foreshadows The End - Aasgard  Michael Raphael - Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers  Michael Raphael - Bruce Hornsby  Hymn To Love (Hymne � L'amour) - Edith Piaf  Psalm 40 - Newsong  Hymn # XVI (Out Of My Flesh) - Abysmal  No More Glory - The Minus 5  Nickerson's Theme - Ahab  Inhume - Krallice  For the Beauty of the Earth - BarlowGirl  For the Beauty of the Earth [Nativity Version]...  Yesterday's Hymn - Queen Adreena  Yesterday's Hymn - Queen Adreena  INRI - The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower  Through It Sll - Darlene Zschech  Through It All - Hillsong United  Hymne A L'amour (Live) - Edith Piaf  Hymne A L'amour (Hymn To Love) - Edith Piaf  Omega Child - Zed Yago  Hymn - Big Head Todd & the Monsters  Toothpaste - Dead Man Ray  Hymn - Brett Anderson  Hail Holy Queen - Deloris & The Sisters  Hush Hush - Avril Lavigne  Old Shoes - Gabriel Rios  Ostatni Tabor - Kat  Hymn - Big Head Todd And The Monsters  Hymn to Theese Lands - Nostradameus  Fletcher Honorama - Sparks  All Your Hate - Black Veil Brides  Ma-o-tzur - Blackmore's Night  Hymn About a Tree - Elin Ruth  A Song For The Nameless - Sworn In  Triunity - Alghazanth  Hail Holy Queen - Sister Act  We Cry Victory - Dogwood  Hymn To Andromeda - Chick Corea  Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore - Chris Stapleton   Hymn to Ann–mara - Adrian Von Ziegler  Hymn (To Her Love) - Clannad  Hymn to a Gorgon - A Transylvanian Funeral  Hymn For Her - The Magic Numbers  The Chameleon - Flanders & Swann  Illusionist - Amanda Jenssen  Untitled Hymn (Come To Jesus)...  Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus) - Michael W. Smith  A Hymn to Haruki Murakami...  Hymn to Iniquity II, Exsequiae - Chaos Moon  Fuckings Greatest Hits - Blood Brothers  Hymn - Andy Stochansky  Fuckings Greatest Hits - The Blood Brothers  Come Healing - Leonard Cohen  Metal Hymn - Heaven's Gate  The Midnight Choir - The Thrills  Huron Christmas Carol - Nylons  Louys Araritch Lousso (Hymn to the Light of the Tr...  The Moon - Dawn  Andrew's Hymn - Arcwelder  Last Public Hanging In West Virginia...  Last Public Hanging In West Virginia...  silence of the northern hell - Blood Stain Child  From Beyond - Sleep  Wounded Battle Hymn - Across Tundras  Hymn of Reflection - KSHMR   The Christmas Hymn - Bobby Horton  Hymn of Solidarity - Bindu / Hamid Drake  Kingdom Of The Cruelty II - Anal Vomit  Never Mistake A Suit For A Friend - Battle Hymn  Terrible World, Give Me More! - Battle Hymn  Living Martyrdom - Battle Hymn  Salt - Battle Hymn  Dear In The Headlights - Battle Hymn  Halo, I'm Not Coming Home - Battle Hymn  Send Me A Miracle - Battle Hymn  Bullet Believers (Rah Rah Rah) - Battle Hymn  Mene Tequel Ufarsim - Doomsday Hymn  Her Hymn Is A Dirge - Andrew Preston  Hymn of the Rising - Audiomachine  Hymn For The Fallen - Brymir  The Nothing Doctrine - Neaera  Hymn - Moby  The Hymn - Moby  Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Bill Gaither  Battle Hymn of the Republic - Bobby Horton  Song E (Hymn In Eb) - Bruce Hornsby  Ecstasy (a Sacred Harp Hymn) ...  Hymn to Lucifer - Moonspell  Hymn to Her - The Four Freshmen  Hymn To Pan - Blood Ceremony  HYMN TO HER - Pretenders  Hymn to Her - The Revolvers  Hymn to Grace - Roddy Frame  Hymn to Concrete - Logout  Hymn to Pan - Faun  Hymn To Life - Timo Tolkki  Hymn to Her - Camel  Hymn To Lucifer - Daemonarch  Hymn To Diana - Mike Oldfield  Hymn To Mary - Beth Nielsen Chapman  Hymn To Friendship - Celine Dion  Hymn to Baphomet - Abominator  Hymn To Grace - Aztec Camera  Hymn To Grace - Aztec Camera  Hymn To Freedom - Oscar Peterson  Hymn To Qayin - Watain  Dharani - Kana Bukuru Lesouple  Anniversary Song - Pat Boone  Anniversary Song - Andy Williams  The Anniversary Song - Anne Shelton  Anniversary Song [1946][Version] - Dinah Shore  Anniversary Song - Anne Shelton  The Lonely One - Siouxsie And The Banshees  The Battle Hymn of the Republic - Bobby Horton  Hymn of Liberty - Derdian  I Love You This Much - Jimmy Wayne  United Alliance - Freedom Call  Battle Hymn of the Republic - Wanda Jackson  Hickory - Iron & Wine  Hickory - Iron & Wine  Kiss My Sword - Lux Occulta  Hymn 2000 - Elton John, Bernie Taupin - John Elton  Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Traditional Hymn) & The...  The Horny And The Horned - Impaled Nazarene  Anniversary Song - Brave Combo  P.O.N. (Pursuit Of Nappyness) - Nappy Roots  P.O.N. - Nappy Roots  Pick Up The Pieces - Eve 6  Desert Rose - Tall Tales and the Silver Lining  The Anniversary Song - Al Jolson  Mistletoe and Holly - Bing Crosby  Mistletoe and Holly - Frank Sinatra  Mistletoe And Holly - Frank Sinatra  Mistletoe & Holly - Frank Sinatra  Mistletoe and Holly (Oh Gosh, By Golly)...  Mistletoe And Holly - Kidz Bop Kids  I Love You This Much [*] - Jimmy Wayne  Home - o'death  The Death of Romance - Zeromancer  Anniversary Song [*] - Vaughn Monroe  Anniversary Song - Vaughn Monroe  Merry Christmas - Captain & Tennille  Hymn - Chris Garneau  Hymn - Lunatica  Hymn - Patti Smith Group  Hymn - Vito Genovese  Hymn - Bond  Hymn - Kevin Ayers & the Whole World  Hymn - London Philharmonic Orchestra  Hymn - Adiemus  Hymn - Porcupine Tree  Hymn - Music Instructor  Hymn - John Lees  Hymn - Duncan Sheik  Hymn - Octavia Sperati  Hymn - Randy Stonehill  Hymn - Frankmusik  Hymn - Barclay James Harvest  Hymn - Pedro the Lion  Hymn - Peter, Paul & Mary