Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

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Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Song Name	Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Origin	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Performer(s)	Carol Channing (Original Broadway) Marilyn Monroe (1953 film) Margot Robbie (Birds of Prey)
Composer	Jule Styne
Lyricist	Leo Robin
Type of Song	Villainized Song

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song from the Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, originally performed by Carol Channing, and was popularized by Marilyn Monroe's version in the 1953 film adaptation. On top of appearing in dozens of films and television series, the song also appears in the 2020 film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). It features Harley Quinn performing a fast-paced remix of the song in a parody of Monroe's version, which is actually her hallucinating due to Black Mask's torture.

The Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn version was performed by Harley Quinn's actress Margot Robbie.

Lyrics

• Full
• Birds of Prey

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 loose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Tiffany's
Cartier
Black Starr
Frost Gorham
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 liaisonic
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
Best friend

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

Diamonds
Diamonds
Diamonds
Diamonds

Diamonds are a girl's best-

Other Appearances

• The original Broadway recording and the 1953 film version were featured on several albums.

Gallery

Images

Videos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Original Broadway)

Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" - "Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend"

Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Birds Of Prey - Harley Quinn-Marilyn Monroe Scene (Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend)

Margot Robbie, Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn

See Also

• Diamonds

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