Wouldn't It Be Loverly

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Wouldn't It Be Loverly is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady.

The song is sung by flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life:

All I want is a room somewhere

Far away from the cold night air

With one enormous chair

Oh, wouldn't it be loverly

In addition to pronouncing "lovely" as "loverly", the song lyrics highlight other facets of the Cockney accent that Professor Henry Higgins wants to refine as part of his social experiment.

In the stage version it was sung by Julie Andrews. In the 1964 film version, Marni Nixon dubbed the song for Audrey Hepburn. Both Andrews' and Nixon's versions are available on the respective soundtrack albums, and Hepburn's original version is available in the specials for the DVD of the film.