Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend Lyrics - Great American Legends: Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe

The French are glad to die for love. 

They delight in fighting duels 

But I prefer a man who lives 

And gives expensive jewels. 

A kiss on the hand 

May be quite continental, 

But diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

A kiss may be grand 

But it won't pay the rental 

On your humble flat 

Or help you at the automat. 

Men grow cold 

As girls grow old, 

And we all lose our charms in the end. 

But square-cut or pear-shaped, 

These rocks don't lose their shape. 

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

Tiffany's! 

Cartier! 

Black Starr! 

Frost Gormham! 

Talk to me Harry Winston. 

Tell me all about it! 

There may come a time 

When a lass needs a lawyer, 

But diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

There may come a time 

When a hard-boiled employer 

Thinks you're awful nice, 

But get that ice or else no dice. 

He's your guy 

When stocks are high, 

But beware when they start to descend. 

It's then that those louses 

Go back to their spouses. 

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

I've heard of affairs 

That are strictly platonic, 

But diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

And I think affairs 

That you must keep Masonic 

Are better bets 

If little pets get big baguettes. 

Time rolls on, 

And youth is gone, 

And you can't straighten up when you bend. 

But stiff back 

Or stiff knees, 

You stand straight at Tiffany's. 

Diamonds! Diamonds! 

I don't mean rhinestones! 

But diamonds are a girl's best friend.