Yesterday I happened to think of a song I heard from a musical that I saw either at a theater or in a film around 1971. The lyrics were something like "What do you do with a girl like Teresa?" or maybe "What do you do with a pretty girl like Teresa?" I thought it might be from "Fiddler on the Roof", which I saw in 1971, but I haven't found any such song like that yet. I don't encounter many musicals, so that highly limits where I might have heard it. Other musicals I've seen are "West Side Story", "The Sound of Music", and "Play It Again, Sam", most of which were played from around the 1969-1973 range, and all of which are well-known.
I believe it was a lady who sang the song, though possibly a male voice sang some verses, too. The melody and chords were cheerful and bouncy, in 4/4 time, in a major key. The last melody note of each line was sustained, like on the "-a" of "Teresa" and the end of the next line, too. It was definitely dramatic/stage-like in songwriting style. I think the lyrics were referring to the exasperation of dealing with a certain young lady in their community, in a good-natured way.
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Last edited by simnia; 05-03-2012 at 05:24 PM.
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Is it possible that 'Teresa' is Maria? Then the Song 'Maria' from the musical 'The Sound of Music' would match
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Wow, excellent! Great detective work. It matches exactly, and that's the song, alright, although I'm humbled and a little confused as to how I could have either misheard or misremembered that name. But I guess the two names do sound similar: they have the the same number of syllables, and two of the three vowels are the same. Again, great job!
Originally Posted by wurzlsepp
