Eartha Kitt provides her signature cheeky glamour in this song selection for the next installment of ‘The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale‘. It reminds me of that hilarious time one of my, shall we say ‘critics’, voiced their claim that I married Andy for his sugar daddy status, which Andy actually found more riotously funny than me. All these years of joking about being a ‘Material Girl’ somehow left an impression that I was actually a material girl, but when you know something isn’t true it doesn’t really leave a sting. An amusing anecdote perhaps, never a sting. There are scorpions far more skilled than issuing such amateurish accusations. And so I play it up, giving the people what they want and indulging in the very image with which they find such bothersome fault. Eartha had this playbook down pat.
I’m just an old-fashioned girl with an old-fashioned mind
Not sophisticated I’m the plain and simple kind
I want an old-fashioned house with an old-fashioned fence
And an old-fashioned millionaire
I like the old-fashioned flowers, violets are for me
Have them made in diamonds by the man at Tiffany
I want an old-fashioned house with an old-fashioned fence
And an old-fashioned millionaire.
I like Chopin and Bizet and the songs of yesterday
String quartets and Polynesian carols
But the music that excels is the sound of oil wells
As they slurp, slurp, slurp into the barrels.
My little home will be quaint as an old parasol
And instead of carpets I’ll have money wall to wall
I want an old-fashioned house with an old-fashioned fence
And an old-fashioned millionaire.
~ The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~
