Cocktail Hour

Judy Garland Cocktail Hour Lyrics
1.Stompin' At The Savoy

Lyrics:Andy Razaf
Music:Benny Goodman/Chick Webb/Edgar Sampson

Savoy, the home of sweet romance,
Savoy, it wins you with a glance,
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.

Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.

How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the Savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;

The home of sweet romance,
It wins you at a glance,
Gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Just like a clinging vine,
So soft and sweet as wine,
So soft and close to mine, divine.

How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never, never, never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the Savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you.


2.Swing Mister Charlie

Written:J.Russell Robinson/Irving Taylor/Harry Brooks


3.Everybody Sing

Lyrics:Arthur Freed
Music:Nacio Herb Brown

When the whole world seems wrong
just learn the words of a simple song,
of blue skies above,
be a troubadour and all is love.

When April showers stray
the silver lining will come they say,
and singin' in the rain's the thing
that those happy days again will bring.

So, everybody sing, everybody sing!
Let the sound of your voice turn winter to spring.
Everybody's gay, everybody's gay!
Oh, say can't you hear the orchestra play?

Everybody sing, everybody start!
You can't go wrong with a song in your heart.
Everybody sing, get into the swing,
get happy, everybody sing.

Yeah, everybody sing, come on now, everybody sing!
Let the sound of your voice turn winter to spring.
Everybody's gay, everybody's gay!
Oh, say can't you hear la-da-de-oo-de-lay-de-lay-o?

Everybody sing, everybody start.
You can't go wrong with a song in your heart.
Everybody sing, come on now get into that swing
Go Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do
Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do
Everybody sing, everybody sing!
Let the sound of your voice turn winter to spring.

Sing before breakfast, help the birdies along.
Before you have your buttered toast, have a song.
Sing before breakfast, never quiet a thing.
Before you eat your shredded wheat, sing, sing, sing!

Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye
four and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie.
When the pie was opened and set before the king,
four and twenty blackbirds started into sing.

Sing a melody of love, a song will win your lady fair.
Sing a song that mentions love and you will
yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi.

Sing a song of cheer again,
the skies above will be clear again,
those happy days are here again,
sing a song of cheer again.

If you worry, if you fret, if you're getting deep in debt,
let your frown turn summerset, get yourself a good quartet.

In the evening by the moonlight
you can hear those darkies singin'.

Sing good, sing bad,
Sing loud, sing soft,
Sing sweet, sing hot,
Sing!

Everybody sing, everybody sing!
Let the sound of your voice turn winter to spring.
Everybody's gay, everybody's gay!
Oh, say can't you hear la-da-de-oo-de-lay-de-lay-o?
Everybody sing, everybody start.
You can't go wrong with a song in your heart
Everybody sing, get into the swing,
Go Do Re Me Fa So La Si Do
Get Happy, get happy
amd everybody sing!


4.All God's Chillun Got Rhythm

Lyrics:Gus Kahn
Music:Bronislau Kaper


5.Dear Mr. Gable You Made Me Love You

Lyrics:Joseph Mccarthy
Music:Jimmy Monaco

Dear Mr. Gable,
I am writing this to you
and I hope that you will read it so you'll know
My heart beats like a hammer
and I stutter and I stammer
every time I see you at the picture show.
I guess I'm just another fan of yours
and I thought I'd write and tell you so.

You made me love you
I didn't wanna do it, I didn't wanna do it.
You made me love you
and all the time you knew it, I guess you always knew it.
You made me happy, sometimes you made me glad.
But there were times, sir, you made me feel so sad.
You made me sigh 'cause
I didn't wanna tell you, I didn't wanna tell you
I think you're grand, that's true
Yes I do, 'deed I do, you know I do.
I must tell you what I'm feeling
The very mention of your name
sends my heart reeling.
You know you made me love you!

(dialogue)

Aw, gee, Mr. Gable, I don't wanna bother you! Guess you got a
lotta girls that tell you the same thing. And if you don't wanna
read this, well, you don't have to. But I just had to tell you
about the time I saw you in 'It Happened One Night'. That was
the first time I ever saw you, and I knew right then you were
the nicest fella in the movies! I guess it was 'cause you acted
so, well so natural like - not like a real actor at all, but
just like any fella you'd meet at shool or at a party. Then one
time I saw you in a picture with Joan Crawford, and I had to cry
a little 'cause you loved her so much and you couldn't have her
- not 'till the end of the picture, anyway. And then one time I
saw you in person. You were making a personal appearance at the
theatre, and I was standing there when you got out of your car,
and you almost knocked me down! Oh - but it wasn't your fault!
Naw, I was in the way. But you looked at me, and you smiled.
Yeah! You smiled right at me as if you meant it, and I cried all
the way home just 'cause you smiled at me for being in your way!
Aw, I'll never forget it, Mr. Gable. Honest injun. You're my
favorite actor!

(singing)

I don't care what happens, let the whole world stop.
As far as I'm concerned, you'll always be the top,
'cause you know you made me love you.


6.You Can't Have Everything

Lyrics:Mack Gordon
Music:Harry Revel


7.Cry Baby Cry

Written:Jimmy Eaton/Terry Shand/Remus Harris/Irving Melshe

If teardrops could flood an ocean
I have an ocean
You try.
You'd make it in extra fast time
Just as a pastime
Easy as pie
Each time you
Cry, baby, cry
Just the way I did the day you broke my heart
Cry, baby, cry
Tables turn and now you've learned you're not so smart
You broke every promiseá
You couldn't be true
You gave me the go-by
For somebody new when I needed you
So cry, baby, cry.
My eyes are dry.
I'm laughin' up my sleeve to see my cry baby cry.
Cry, baby, cry (2)
Just the way I did the day you broke my heart
Cry, baby, cry
You feel too high
Tables turn and now you've learned you're not so smart
You broke every promiseá
You couldn't be true
You gave me the go-by
For somebody new when I needed you
So cry, baby, cry.
My eyes are dry.
I'm laughin', yes laughin'!
I'm laughin' up my sleeve to see my cry-baby cry.


8.Sleep My Baby Sleep

Written:Franz Steininger/Edward Pola

Sleep, sleep my baby, sleep
And dream of a world to come
Sleep, sleep my baby, sleep
And dream of a world to come.

Where there will be no sorrow
Where there will be no tears
Where there will be no lonely people
And where there will be no fear.

Sleep, sleep my baby, sleep
And dream of a world to come
Sleep, sleep my baby, sleep
And dream of a world to come.

Where we will know true freedom
Where we will know true love
Where we will know that we are wanted
And precious to God above


9.It Never Rains But What It Pours

Lyrics:Harry Revel/Mack Gordon
Music:Harry Revel/Mack Gordon


10.Over the Rainbow

Lyrics:E.Y.'Yip'Harburg
Music:Harold Arlen

Someplace where there isn't any trouble...
...do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?
There must be. It's not a place you can get to
by a boat or a train. It's far, far away...
Behind the moon
Beyond the rain

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly,
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow,
Why oh why can't I?


11.The Jitterbug

Lyrics:E.Yip Harburg
Music:Harold Arlen

DOROTHY:Did you just hear what I just heard?
LION:That noise don't come from no ordinary bird.
DOROTHY:It may be just a cricket , or a critter in the trees.
TIN MAN: It's giving me the jitters, in the joints around my
knees.

SCARECROW: I think I see a jijik, and he's fuzzy and he's furry.
I haven't got a brain but I think I ought to worry.
TIN MAN: I haven't got a heart, but I got a palpitation.
LION: As Monarch of the forest, I don't like the sitchy-ation

DOROTHY: Are you gonna stand around and let him fill us full of
horror?
LION: I'd like to roar him down, but I think I lost my roarer.

TIN MAN: It's a whozis.
SCARECROW: It's a whosis?
LION: It's a whatzis.
SCARECROW: It's a whatzis?
TIN MAN: Whozat?
LION: Whozat?

DOROTHY (singing chorus):
Who's that hiding,
In the tree top?
It's that rascal
The Jitterbug.

Should you catch him buzzin' round you,
Just look out for the Jitterbug.

Oh, the bees in the breeze
And the bats in the trees
Have a terrible, horrible buzz.
But the bees in the breeze
And the bats in the trees
Couldn't do what the Jitterbug does.

So be careful Of that rascal
Keep away from
The Jitterbug!


12.In Between

Lyrics:Roger Edens
Music:Roger Edens

Hold the light up to me
Get underneath my skin
I feel a little undefined
But I want to let you in
And I listen to the messages
The endless train of thought
But now it feels like I'm returning
Most everything I bought

Some say... it's all coming to an end
Some fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
It makes me wonder what they believe
'Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes, lord knows, you gotta get off
There's no use holding on to what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
No use wondering what I mean

Saints and sinners, losers, winners
Masters and their slaves
The more you hide one or the other
The earlier your grave
The triumph and the tragedy
The endless bright parade
I know that most of us are innocent
But some should be afraid

'Cause they say we're all coming to an end
They fool themselves with thoughts of new beginnings
Well I don't buy it... it's just too clean
'Cause we're in between
Sometimes it's just better to get on with it
Sometimes, lord knows, you gotta get off
No use holding on to what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
No use wondering what I mean
'Cause I'm in between
Are you still wondering what I mean

Hold the light up to me... get underneath my skin
Humming like the wind
I feel a little undefined... I'm sorry if I seem...
So in between
It's so much better when you run your fingers through my hair
Humming like the air
I wish that I could hold you... I'm sorry if I seem...
So in between


13.Sweet Sixteen

Lyrics:Roger Edens
Music:Roger Edens

I'll do anything
For my sweet sixteen,
And I'll do anything
For little run away child

Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She took ev'rything,
Ev'rything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen

Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh.

Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.

Well I'll do anything
For my sweet sixteen
Oh I'll do anything
For little runaway child

Well, memories may burn you,
Memories grow older as people can
They just get colder
Like sweet sixteen

I see it's clear
Baby, that you are
All through here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
To house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.

And I do anything
For my sweet sixteen
Oh, I do anything
For run away girl.

Yeah, sad and lonely and blue.
Yeah, gettin' over you.
How, how do you think it feels
Yeah to get up in the morning, get over you.
Up in the morning, get over you.
Wipe away the tears, get over you, get over, get over...

My sweet sixteen,
Oh runaway child
Oh sweet sixteen
Little runaway girl.

Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She left everything,
Everything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen
Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.

And I'll do anything
For my sweet sixteen
Oh, I'll do anything
For little runaway child

Do anything
For my sweet sixteen
I'll do anything
For little runaway girl
Little runaway girl
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh


14.On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Written:Jimmy Mchugh/Dorothy Fields

Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry at the
doorstep
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street
Can't you hear that pitter pat and that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade
But I'm not afraid 'cause this rover, crossed over

If I never had a cent I'll be as rich as Rockfeller
Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street

With those blues on parade
Because this rover, it crossed over

If I never had a cent I'll be as loaded as old Rockfeller
With that gold dust 'round my feet
On the sunny side of the street
On the side, at that side of the street that is sunny


15.No Love No Nothin'

Lyrics:Leo Robin
Music:Harry Warren

No love, no nothin',
Until my baby comes home,
No sir! No nothin',
As long as baby must roam,
I promised him I'd wait for him
Till even Hades froze,
I'm lonsome, Heaven knows,
But what I said still goes,
No love, no nothin',
And that's a promise I'll keep,
No fun with no one,
I'm getting plenty of sleep
My heart's on strile
And tho' it's like an empty honeycomb,
No love, no sir! No nothin',
Till my baby comes home


16.A Journey To A Star

Lyrics:Leo Robin
Music:Harry Warren


17.This Heart Of Mine

Lyrics:Arthur Freed
Music:Harry Warren

INTRO:
Maybe it was the music or that heavenly sky of blue
Maybe it was the mood I was in or maybe it was really you
Really you

This heart of mine was doing very well
The world was fine as far as I could tell
And then quite suddenly I met you and I dreamed of gay amours
At dawn I woke up singing sentimental overtures

This heart of mine is gaily dancing now
I taste the wine of real romancing now
Somehow this crazy world has taken on a wonderful design
As long as life endures it's yours, this heart of mine


This heart of mine is gaily dancing now
I taste the wine of real romancing now
Somehow this crazy world has taken on a wonderful design
As long as life endures it's yours, this heart of mine

As long as life endures it's yours, this heart of mine
This heart of mine, this heart of mine


18.For Me and My Gal

Lyrics:Edgar Leslie/Ray Goetz
Music:George W.Meyer
Artist:Judy Garland/Gene Kelly

What a beautiful day
For a wedding in May!
See the people all stare
At the loveable pair.

She's a vision of joy,
He's the luckiest boy.
In his wedding array
Hear him smilingly say:

The bells are ringing for me and my gal,
The birds are singing for me and my gal.
Everybody's been knowing
To a wedding they're going
And for weeks they've been sewing,
Every Susie and Sal.
They're congregating for me and my gal,
The Parson's waiting for me and my gal.
And sometime
I'm goin' to build a little home for two,
For three or four or more,
In Love-land for me and my gal.

See the relatives there
Looking over the pair!
They can tell at a glance
It's a loving romance.

It's a wonderful sight
As the families unite.
Gee! It makes the boy proud
As he says to the crowd:

The bells are ringing for me and my gal,
The birds are singing for me and my gal.
Everybody's been knowing
To a wedding they're going
And for weeks they've been sewing,
Every Susie and Sal.
They're congregating for me and my gal,
The Parson's waiting for me and my gal.
And sometime
I'm goin' to build a little home for two,
For three or four or more,
In Love-land for me and my gal.

(repeat chorus)


19.When You Wore a Tulip(And I Wore A Big Red Rose)

Lyrics:Jack Mahoney
Music:Percy Wenrich
Artist:Judy Garland/Gene Kelly

You wore a tulip,
A sweet, yellow tulip,
And I wore a big red rose.
When you caressed me,
'Twas then Heaven blessed me,
Such a blessing no one knows.
You made life cheery
When you called me dearie,
'Twas down where the blue grass grows.
Oh, it was sweeter than julep
When you wore a tulip,
And I wore a big red rose.


20.Embraceable You

Lyrics:Ira Gershwin
Music:George Gershwin

Embrace me,
My sweet embraceable you.
Embrace me,
You irreplaceable you.
Just one look at you - my heart grew tipsy in me.
You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.
I love all
The many charms about you;
Above all,
I want my arms about you.
Don't be a naughty baby,
Come to papa - come to papa - do!
My sweet embraceable you.

I love all
The many charms about you;
Above all,
I want my arms about you.
Don't be a naughty baby,
Come to papa - come to papa - do!
My sweet embraceable you.


21.Could You Use Me?

Lyrics:Ira Gershwin
Music:George Gershwin
Artist:Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney

Have some pity on an easterner
Show a little sympathy
No one possibly could be sterner
Than you have been with me.

There's a job that I'm applying for
Let me put it to you thus:
It's a partnership I'm dying for -
Mr. and Mrs. Us.

Now before you file it on the shelf
Let me tell you of myself.

Oh, I'm the chappie to make you happy,
I'll tie your shoesies and chase your bluesies.
Oh, lady would you
Oh, lady could you use me?

Now I'd shake the matt out and put the cat out,
I'd clean the garret and feed the parrot.
Oh, lady would you,
Oh, tell me, could you use me?

Do you realize what a good man you're getting in me?
I'm no Elk or Mason or Woodman who gets home at three.

The girls who see me grow soft and dreamy,
But I'm a gander who won't philander.
Oh, could you use me,
Cuz I certainly could use you.

There's a chap I know in Mexico
Who's as strong as he can be -
Eating nails and drinking Texaco,
He is the type for me.

There is one in California
More romantic, far, than you.
When he sings Ha Cha Chachoronia,
I often think he'll do.

But as for you sir, I'm afraid
You will never make the grade.
For you're no cowboy, you're soft, and how, boy!
I feel no muscle that's fit for tussle
I must refuse you, I cannot use you!

'Scuse me!

No night life for you, the birds would bore you,
The cows won't know you, a horse would throw you.
You silly many, you, to ask me, 'Can you use me?'

Though at love you may be a wizard,
I'm wanting to know -
Could you warm me up in a blizard,
Say forty below?

Your ties are freakish, your knees are weakish,
You're not a sender, you elbow bender,
Though you can use me,
I most certainly can't use you!


22.But Not for Me

Lyrics:Ira Gershwin
Music:George Gershwin

Old Man Sunshine - Listen, you!
Never tell me Dreams Come True!
Just try it -
And I'll start a riot.
Beatrice Fairfax - don't you dare
Ever tell me he will care;
I'm certain
It's the Final Curtain.
I never want to hear
From any cheer-
Ful Polyannas,
Who tell you Fate
Supplies a Mate -
It's all bananas!

They're writing songs of love,
But not for me;
A lucky star's above,
But not for me.

With Love to Lead the Way,
I've found more skies of Gray
Than any Russian play
Could Guarantee.

I was a fool to fall
And Get That Way;
Heigh ho! Alas! And al-
So Lackaday!

Although I can't dismiss
The mem'ry of his kiss -
I guess he's not for me.


23.Bidin' My Time

Lyrics:Ira Gershwin
Music:George Gershwin
Artist:Judy Garland/Leo Diamond Harmonica Quintet

But I'm Bidin' My Time;
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm
While other folks grow dizzy
I keep busy
Bidin' My Time.

Next year, next year,
Somethin's bound to happen;
This year, this year,
I'll just keep on nappin'

And Bidin' My Time
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
There's no regrettin'
When I'm settin'
Bidin' My Time.


24.I Got Rhythm

Lyrics:Ira Gershwin
Music:George Gershwin

Days can be sunny, with never a sigh
Don't need what money can buy
Birds in the trees sing their day full of song
Why shouldn't we sing along?

I'm chipper all the day, happy with my lot
How do I get that way? Look at what I've got

I got rhythm, I got music
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?


Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him, 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

I got rhythm, I got music
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?


25.Meet Me In St. Louis

Lyrics:Andrew B.Sterling
Music:Kerry Mills

When Louis came home to the flat,
He hung up his coat and his hat,
He gazed all around, but no wifey he found,
So he said 'where can Flossie be at?'
A note on the table he spied,
He read it just once, then he cried.
It ran, 'Louis dear, it's too slow for for me hear,
So I think I will go for a ride.'

CHORUS

'Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don't tell me the lights are shining
any place but there;
We will dance the Hoochee Koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair.'

Verse two

The dresses that hung in the hall,
Were gone, she had taken them all;
She took all his rings and the rest of his things;
The picture he missed from the wall.
'What! moving!' the janitor said,
'Your rent is paid three months ahead.'
'What good is the flat?' said poor Louis, 'Read that.'
And the janitor smiled as he read.

CHORUS

'Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don't tell me the lights are shining
any place but there;
We will dance the Hoochee Koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair.'


26.The Boy Next Door

Lyrics:Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane
Music:Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane

The moment I saw him smile,
I knew he was just my style,
My only regret is we've never met,
Though I dream of him all the while.

But he doesn't know I exist,
No matter how I may persist,
So it's clear to see there's no hope for me,
Though I live at 5135 Kensington Avenue
And he lives at 5133.

How can I ignore
The boy next door?
I love him more than I can say.
Doesn't try to please me, doesn't even tease me,
And he never sees me glance his way.

And though I'm heart-sore
The boy next door affection for me won't display,
I just adore him, so I can't ignore him,
The boy next door.

I just adore him, so I can't ignore him,
The boy next door.


27.Skip To My Lou

Written:Public Domain/Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane

Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Lost my partner, what'll I do
Lost my partner, what'll I do
Lost my partner, what'll I do
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

I'll find another one, prettier, too.
I'll find another one, prettier, too.
I'll find another one, prettier, too.
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Can't get a red bird, blue bird'll do.
Can't get a red bird, blue bird'll do.
Can't get a red bird, blue bird'll do.
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Flies in the sugarbowl, shoo, shoo, shoo.
Flies in the sugarbowl, shoo, shoo, shoo.
Flies in the sugarbowl, shoo, shoo, shoo.
Skip to my Lou, my darling!


28.The Last Call For Love

Written:E.Y.Harburg/Margery Cummings/Burton Lane

It's the last call for love, time to say fare thee well,
Let the taps tell you all that my heart dare not tell.
With your eyes in the stars, ever glory, can I help but be
faithful to you,
Till we meet on the day we're dreaming of, it's the last call
for love.