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Louisiana purchase I’ll tell you what it means It means I’d like to sell you New Orleans Come on, come on And you all can go to town way down in New Orleans Louisiana salesman With nothing in his jeans That’s why I’d like to sell you New Orleans Come on, come on And do [...]
[1st verse:] Lissa to the sweet-a rag-a time Ain’t it nunga make you feel-a fine? Ev’rybody dance, sleep-a like-a trance Keep-a steady, get-a ready One, two three Kid! What’s-a matta you no look-a wise? Get-a busy, make-a goo goo eyes Nunga make-a fake, just-a shake-a shake Make-a jealous for the other guys [chorus:] Sweet Marie [...]
[1st verse:] The roses each one Met with the sun Sweetheart when I met you The sunshine had fled The roses were dead Sweetheart when I lost you [chorus:] I lost the sunshine and roses I lost the heavens of blue I lost the beautiful rainbow I lost the morning dew I lost the angel [...]
An old-fashioned tune always is new It never seems to go out of style For just when you start thinking it’s through It comes down from the shelf with a smile A simple melody will always linger I mean the kind you pick out With one finger If you have some thoughts rhyming with June [...]
Take a look at the flower in my buttonhole Take a look, say, and ask me why it’s there Can’t you see that I’m all dressed up to take a stroll? Can’t you tell that there’s something in the air? I’ve got a date Can’t hardly wait I’d like to bet She won’t be late [...]
It’s over All over And soon somebody else will make a fuss about you But how about me? It’s over All over And soon somebody else will tell his friends about you But how about me? You’ll find somebody new But what am I to do? I’ll still remember you When you have forgotten And [...]
[1st verse:] Antonio Long ago Buy a mandolin what can’t be beat He right away Learn to play On the mandolin so nice and sweet He’s got a gal what’s a swell and a beautiful And ev’ry day She make a drop in the shop To Tony and say dis-a-way, dis-a-way [chorus:] Pick, pick, pick, [...]
[Horace:] Countess, you’re my pal. Hey, we gotta celebrate [Countess:] What? [Horace:] Yeah, first to Montmartre, then the Moulin Rouge, the Folies Bergere! [Countess:] Not at all…. [Horace:] Not Montmartre? [Countess:] No. [Horace:] Not the Moulin Rouge? [Countess:] No. [Horace:] Not the Folies Bergere?! [Countess:] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They are [...]
Just a sweet coquette, so they say and yet I know how true you can be Just a butterfly, so they say but I Know just how much you love me The others you’ve met may call you Coquette But I’ll always call you “sweetheart” They think of Coquette as something to pet But I [...]
[Spring:] The Spring was here, the skies were blue The birds seem’d glad to sing The very sweetest song they knew Ev’ry happiness to bring Sweet nature dressed in colors bright The flowers brought good cheer The Spring was here, the world was right And I knew that you were near [Fall:] The Fall was [...]
The girl that I marry will have to be As soft and as pink as a nursery The girl I call my own Will wear wear satins and laces and smell of cologne Her nails will be polished and in her hair She’ll wear a gardenia and I’ll be there ‘Stead of flittin’ I’ll be [...]
I’m so tired of working in an office And it’s making me blue There is work that don’t require an office That I’m anxious to do Homework, I want to do homework Instead of an office, I want to work home Staying at home and crocheting And meekly obeying The guy who comes home A [...]
It only happens when I dance with you That trip to Heaven till the dance is through With no one else do the Heavens seem quite so near Why does it happen, dear only with you? Two cheeks together can be so divine But only when those cheeks are yours and mine I’ve danced with [...]
[1st verse:] You see that vacant house As quiet as a mouse It’s chock full of myst’ry Besides, it has a hist’ry The man who occupied That building strangely died No one wants to buy it, because That house is [chorus:] Haunted, haunted Lanky, hanky, panky skeletons go sneakin’ around You see that boney, croney [...]
[Written for 1943 film version, not used.] Take me with you, soldier boy Take me when you start I won’t take up too much space in your heart I’ll be with you, soldier boy With you day and night And I promise not to get in your way I know there’s a job to do [...]
["By E. Ray Goetz and Irving Berlin".] [1st verse:] Dear, lend an ear to the finest music in the land You’d better hurry and take a hand I want to linger beside that grandstand band, and Hon’, better run, just because I hear them tuning up I’m kind of hungry myself, but we’ll be late [...]
[1st verse:] Miss Minnie Rosenstein Had such a voice so fine Just like Tetrazzini Any time that Minnie sang a song You’d think of real estate seven blocks long Some song! Young Mister Abie Cohn used to call to her home Just to hear her singing Presents he was bringing Full of bliss! One night [...]
The tall man with the high hat and the whiskers on his chin Will soon be knocking at your door and you ought to be in The tall man with the high hat will be coming down your way Get your savings out when you hear him shout “Any bonds today?” Any bonds today? Bonds [...]
When you accuse me of being untrue, my dear It hurts me so, you’ll never know There’s no one else that I’m loving but you, my dear That’s true and so you ought to know I don’t go out with other guys -I saw you myself with my own eyes Do you believe your eyes [...]