Babes in Arms

Music: Richard Rodgers

Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Richard Rodgers + Lorenz Hart
Premiere: Wednesday, April 14, 1937
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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.Imagine Ballet
9.All At Once
10.The Lady Is A Tramp
11.You Are So Fair
12.Finale

1.Where Or When

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

They call us babes in arms

but we are babes in armour.
They laugh at babes in arms
but we'll be laughing far more.
On city street and farms
They'll hear a rising was cry.
Youth will arrive,
let them know you are 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.
Why have we got our arms,
what have we got our sight for?
Play day is done,
we have a palce in the sun
we must fight for.
So babes in arms to arms!

3.I Wish I Were In Love Again

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 (On West End Avenue)

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.Imagine Ballet
[Instrumental]

9.All At Once
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10.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

11.You Are So Fair

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.

12.Finale

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