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Babes in Arms
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Richard Rodgers + Lorenz Hart
Film: 1939
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1.Where Or When
2.Babes In Arms
3.I Wish I Were In Love Again
4.Way Out West
5.My Funny Valentine
6.Johnny One Note
7.Imagine
8.All At Once
9.The Lady Is A Tramp
10.You Are So Fair
11.Good Morning
12.I Like Opera, I Like Swing
13.Daddy Was Minstrel Man
14.Oh! Susanna
15.Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
16.Moonlight Bay
17.I'm Just Wild About Harry
18.God's Country
19.I Cried for You



1.Where Or When
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Music By Richard Rodgers.

VERSE

Sometimes you think you've lived before
All that you live today
Things you do come back to you
As though they knew the way
Oh, the tricks your mind can play!

REFRAIN

It seem we stood and talked like this before
we looked at each other in the same way then,
But I can’t remenber where or when.
The clothes you’re wearing are the clothes you wore.
The smile you are smiling you were smilimg then,
But i can’t remember where or when.

Some things that happend for the first time,
Seem to be happenig again.
Amd so it seems that we have met before
and laughted before
and loved before,
But who knows where or when.


2.Babes In Arms
Music by Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart;
Additional Music and Lyrics by Roger Edens

They treat us like they thought we were a menace to the nation
And that ain't right
No, that ain't right
They think of us as infants and as plain humiliation
And that ain't right
No, it ain't polite
We've got to face our destiny
The likes of which we're fated
We've had our fill of nurseries
And now we've graduated
Abe Lincoln had the right idea with his emancipation
And just like Abe we've gotta make a great big proclamation
We'll do it right
Yeah, we'll do it right!
Let's for this very night
Yes, this very night!
Listen, from tonight our future will be bright
He's right!
From now on our future will be very, very bright
They call us babes in arms
But we are babes in armor
They laugh at babes in arms
But we'll be laughing far more
On city streets and farms
They'll hear a rising war cry
You will arrive
Let them know you're alive
Make it your cry

They call us babes in arms
They think they must direct us
But if we're babes in arms
We'll make them all respect us
By God we've got our rights
Play day is done
We've a place in the sun we must fight for
So babes in arms, to arms!

To arms
To arms
Babes in arms!
We don't wanna go to county farms
No!

C'mon you babes in arms
Stand up for your rights
We're coming
We're coming
C'mon you sons and daughters
We gotta fight
We're coming
We're coming
George Washington was just a kid when he chopped down that tree
But if they'd locked him up for that, where'd this country be?
We gotta stand
We gotta stand
We gotta stand right up
We gotta stand right up
We gotta stand right up and tell them that we're right
Yeah, we gotta fight
Yeah, we gotta fight
Fight
Fight

Whatta we cheer for?
Whatta we here for?
Why were we born?
What do we cry for?
What do we die for?
Why do we moan?
Life is a start
Life is the way it goes on
We've gotta stand
We've gotta skate into the dawn
It's a new day
It's a new day, our flag's unfurled
C'mon let's run it to the world
On city streets and farms
They'll hear a rising war cry
You will arrive
Let them know you're alive
Make it your cry
They call us babes in arms
They think they must direct us
But if we're babes in arms
We'll make them all respect us
Hooray!
Hooray!
Why have we got our eyes?
What have we got our sight for?
Play day is done
We've a place in the sun we must fight for
So babes in arms
Come!


3.I Wish I Were In Love Again
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Music By Richard Rodgers.

VERSE

You don't know that I felt good
when we up and parted.
You don't know I knocked on wood
gladly broken-hearted.
Worrying is trought,
I sleep all night
appetite and health restored.
You don't know how muck I'm bored!

REFRAIN 1

The sleepless nights,
the daily fights
the qick toboggan when you reach the heights
I miss the kisses and I miss the bites
I wish I were in love again!

The broken dates,
the endless waits,
the lovely loving and the hateful hates,
the conversations with the flying plates
I wish I were in love again!

No more pain
no more strain
now I'm sane but ...
I would rather be gaga!
The pulled-out fur
of cat and cur
the fine mismating of a him and her
I've learned my lesson, but I wish I were
in love again!

REFRAIN 2
The furtive sight
the blackened eye,
the words "I'll love you till the day I day"
the self-deception the belives the lie
I wish I were in love again!

When love congeals
it soon reveals
the faint aroma of performing seals
the double-crossong ps a pair of heels.
I wish I were in love again!

No more care
no despair
I'm all there now
But I'd rather be punch-drunk!
Belive me sir
I much prefer
the classic battle of a him and her.
I don't like quiet and
I wish I were in love again!


4.Way Out West
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Music By Richard Rodgers.

VERSE

I'd travel the plains.
Im mountain streams I'd paddle.
Over the Rockies I would trail.
I'd hark to the strains
of cowboys in the saddle-
not very musical but male.
I've roamed o'er the range with the herd,
where seldom is heard an intelligent word.

REFRAIN

Git along, little taxi, you can keep the change.
I'm riding home to my kitchen range
Way out west On west end avenue.
Oh, I love to listen to the wagon wheels
that bring the milk that your neighbor steals
Way out west On west end avenue.
Keep all your mountains
and your lone prairie so pretty,
give me the fountains
that go wring at Rodeo City.
I would trade your famous deer and antelope
for one tall beer and a cantaloupe
Way out west On west end avenue.
Yippee-aye-ay!


5.My Funny Valentine

Be hold the way our fine feathered-friend
his virtue doth parade.
Thou knowest not my dim witted friend,
the picture Thou hast made.
Thy vacant brow and Thy tousled hair
conceal Thy good intent.
Thou noble upright, truthful, sincere
And slightly dopey gent- you are..

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart

You looks are laughable, unphotographable
Yet you're my favorite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little bit weak
When you open it to speak, are you smart?

Don't change your hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay

Each day is valentine's day


6.Johnny One Note

Johnny could only sing one note
And the note he sings was this
Ah!

Poor Johnny one-note
sang out with "gusto"
And just overlorded the place
Poor Johnny one-note
yelled willy nilly
Until he was bleu in the face
For holding one note was his ace

Couldn’t hear the brass
Couldn’t hear the drum
He was in a class
By himself, by gum!

Poor Johnny one-note
Got in Aida
Indeed a great chance to be brave
He took his one note
Howled like the North Wind
Brought forth wind that made critics rave,
While Verdi turned round in his grave!

Couldn’t hear the flute
Or the big trombone
Ev’ry one was mute
Johnny stood alone.

Cats and dogs stopped yapping
Lions in the zoo
All were jealous of Johnny's big trill
Thunder claps stopped clapping,
Traffic ceased its roar,
And they tell us Niag’ra stood still.
He stopped the train whistles,
Boat whistles,
steam whistles,
Cop whistles,
all whistles bowed to his skill

Sing Johnny One-Note,
Sing out with "gusto" and
Just overwhelm all the crowd
Ah!
So sing Johnny One-Note, out loud!!
Sing Johnny One-Note
Sing Johnny One-Note out loud!


7.Imagine
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8.All At Once
NOT AVAILABLE!


9.The Lady Is A Tramp

I get too hungry for dinner at eight
I like the theatre but never come late
I never bother with people I hate
That's why the lady is a tramp

I don't like crapgames with Barons and Earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp

I like the free fresh wind in my hair
Life without care
I'm broke, it's oke

Hates california is cold and is damp
That's why the lady is a tramp


10.You Are So Fair
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Music By Richard Rodgers.

You're a siren if there ever was one-
And there was one.
You're a Lorelei,
I'm a dope.
You're a baddie if I ever saw one-
And I've seen one.
Darling, you're a lie;
I've no hope.
I'm at the end of my rope.

REFRAIN 1

You are so fair-
Like an Oriental vision,
But you won't make that decision.
You're not quite fair.
I'd pay vour fare
To Niagara Falls and back too,
But you never will react to
This love affair.
You are the crepes suzette
I should get
On my bill of fare,
But if you love me not,
Flower pot,
See if I care.
See how you'll fare
If you keep on playing Rover.
When I come to think it over,
You're only fair.

REFRAIN 2

You are so fair
But you know you' re no Apollo
And to say you're hard to swallow
Is only fair.
I'd pay your fare
All around the world and back too,
For I'd like to give the sack to
This love affair.
You are the Camembert
I can't bear
On my bill of fare,
So if you love me not,
Flower pot,
See if I care.
See how you'll fare
If you keep on playing Rover.
When I come to think it over,
You're only fair.

REFRAIN 3
Your hair ain't fair
And you got no style in dressing.
I'm afraid you ain't possessing
No savoir-faire.
I'd pay your fare
To the tropic of New Guinea,
For I'd like to yell "C'est finis"
To this affair.
You are the freak event
In the tent
Of a county fair;
So if you love me not,
Polka dot,
See if I care.
See how you'll fare
If you keep on playing Rover.
When I come to think it over,
You're only fair.


11.Good Morning
Words by Arthur Freed, Music by Nacio Herb Brown, 1939
Performed by Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland

Good mornin', good mornin'!
We've danced the whole night through,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.

Good mornin', good mornin'!
It's great to stay up late,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.

When the band began to play
the sun was shinin' bright.
Now the milkman's on his way,
it's too late to say goodnight.

So, good mornin', good mornin'!
Sunbeams will soon smile through,
good mornin', my darlin', to you.

Here we are together,
a couple of stand-uppers.
Our day is done, breakfast time
starts with our supper.

Here we are together,
ah, but the best of friends must party.
So let me sing this party song
from the bottom of my hearty.

Good morning, it's a lovely morning.
Good morning, what a wonderful day.
We danced the whole night through.
Good morning, good morning to you.

I said good morning, see the sun is shinin'.
Good morning, hear the birdies sing.
It's great to stay up late.
Good mornin', good mornin' to you.

When the band began to play
the stars were shinin' bright.
Now the milkman's on his way,
it's too late to say goodnight.

Good morning, good morning!
Sunbeams will soon smile through.
Good mornin', good morning',
Good mornin', my darlin', to you!


12.I Like Opera, I Like Swing
NOT AVAILABLE!


13.Daddy Was Minstrel Man
NOT AVAILABLE!


14.Oh! Susanna
NOT AVAILABLE!


15.Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
NOT AVAILABLE!


16.Moonlight Bay

We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay,
You could hear the voices ringing,
They seemed to say,

"You have stolen my heart,
Now don't go 'way."
As we sang Love's Old Sweet Song,
On Moonlight Bay.


17.I'm Just Wild About Harry
(Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake)

Sung by Judy Garland

I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me,
The heavenly blisses of his kisses
Fill me with ecstasy.
He's sweet just like choc'late candy,
And just like honey from the bee.
Oh, I'm just wild about Harry,
And he's just wild about me.

Now I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me,
The heavenly blisses of his kisses
Fill me with ecstasy.
Say now he's sweet just like choc'late candy,
And just like honey from the bee.
Oh, I'm just wild about Harry,
And he's just wild about
Cannot do without,
He's just wild about me.


18.God's Country
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19.I Cried for You
(Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman)
Performed by Judy Garland

I cried for you
Now it's your turn to cry over me
Every road has a turning
That's one thing you're learning.

I cried for you
What a fool I used to be
But I'll find two eyes just a little bit bluer,
I'll find a heart just a little bit truer.

I cried for you
Now it's your turn to cry over me.

[spoken]

I know I'm no glamour girl like Baby - like her. But
maybe someday you'll realize that glamour isn't the
only thing in this world. If your show's a flop you'll
find you can't eat glamour for breakfast. Anyway, I
might be pretty good-looking myself when I grow out of
this ugly-duckling stage. And you're no Clark Gable
yourself. But that's all right. Don't worry about me,
I'll recover. Time is a great healer. But in the future
if we should meet again at the opera or at a ball, and
I'm dazzling in my diamonds and pearls and ermine wraps,
and surrounded by lords and dukes and princes, you'll
probably be sorry. And you'll probably realize that
life is just an idiot's delight. And as I speed through
the night into the abyss of oblivion, I can only say
thanks - thanks for the memory.

[sung]

I'll find two eyes just a little bit bluer,
I'll find a heart just a little bit truer.

I cried for you
Now it's your turn to cry over me.

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