Title:  a hug

Composer:  Joe Raposo ?

Lead vocals:  Rita Moreno, Hattie Winston

Backing vocals:  Judy Graubart

Scene:  Rita as a TV news anchor, surrounded by her staff, with an idea about how to make the energy crisis a little more bearable.

[RM]  We can end this awful struggle

If we all will learn to snuggle

In a hug.  A hug.

We can muddle through the weather

If we cuddle up together

In a hug.  A hug.

Grab your sister and your brother,

Or a stranger off the street.

With your arms around another,

You’ll begin to feel some heat.

When the temperature is freezin’,

There is nothing quite as pleasin’

As a hug.  A hug.

A hug, a hug, a hug.

[JG]  A hug, a hug.  A hug, a hug.

A hug, a hug.  A hug, a hug.

A hug, a hug.

[HW]  Just open your arms this wide,

Then close me up tight inside.

Oh, gee, how you start to warm just

Every cockle of my silly chilly heart.

No nicer things I do.

When you hug me, I’ll hug you.

What joy when you hold me tight and

Hug.  Hug.  Hug-a-hug.

[JG]  A hug, a hug.  A hug, a hug.

A hug, a hug.  A hug, a hug.

A hug, a hug.

[RM, HW, JG doing their parts simultaneously]

[RM, HW, JG]  A hug!  Hug!  Hug!

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