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Let me sing
A happy song With crazy words That roll along And if my song can start your laughing I'm happy Happy! Let me sing a sad refrain A broken heart that loved in vain, And if my song can start your crying I'm happy Let me croon A low down tune To lift you out of your seat And if my song Can reach your shoes And start you tapping your feet |
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy, by Irving Berlin from Mammy
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Sing Hallelujah Hallelujah
And you'll shoo the blues away When cares pursue ya Hallelujah Sees you through The darkest day Satan lies a-waitin' And creatin' skies of grey |
Hallelujah, by Newmans/Robbins/Grey
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When I got to Satan's door
I heard you blowing on your horn once more So, blow Gabriel, blow Blow Gabriel, blow |
Blow, Gabriel Blow, by Cole Porter from Anything Goes
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I want to join your happy band
Let the drums roll out Let the trumpets call While the people shout Strike up the band Let the cybmals ring Calling one and all To the martial swing Strike up the band There is work to be done to be done There's a war to be won to be won Come you son of a gun of a gun Take a stand Fall in line yeah boy Come along lets go Hey, leader strike up |
Strike Up the Band, by George and Ira Gershwin from
An American in Paris
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Before the parade passes by
I'm gonna go and taste Saturday's highlife Before the parade passes by I'm going to get some life back into my life I'm ready to move out in front I've had enough of just passing by life With the rest of them With the best of them I'm going to hold my head up high |
Before the Parade Passes By, by Jerry Herman for
Hello Dolly
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Be a clown
Be a clown All the world loves a clown With his pants fallin' down |
Be a Clown, by Cole Porter from The Pirate
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Or the dance that's a dream of romance
Or the scene, when the villain is mean The world is a stage The stage is a world |
That's Entertainment, by Howard Dietz/ArthurSchwartz used in
Band
Wagon
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Give my regards to Broadway
Remember me to Herald Square Tell all the gals |
Give My Regards to Broadway, by George M Cohan from Little Johnny Jones |
On the avenue I'm taking you to | 42nd Street, by Harry Warren/Al Dubin from 42nd Street |
That I will soon be there
Whisper of how I'm yearning To mingle with that old time throng So give my regards to Broadway |
Give My Regards to Broadway
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Broadway
How great you are I'll leave the farm and all its charm To be a Broadway star Bright lights, white lights Where the neons glow My bags are packed I've got my act So all aboard, come on lets go |
Broadway, by Stephen Sondheim/Julie Styne from Gypsy
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All aboard, all aboard, all aboard
Can you hear that whistle down the line I figure that it's engine number 49 She's the only one that'll sound that way On the the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe Ooo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo Hey Jim, you'd better get the rig Ooo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo She's got a list of passengers that's mighty big |
The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, by Harry Warren/Johnny
Mercer from The Harvey Girls
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Toot toot tootsie, goodbye
Toot toot tootsie, don't cry I'm on a train that takes me Away from you Oh, you'll never know how sad that makes me Kiss me Tootsie and then Kiss me over again I'll watch for the mail I'll never fail If you don't get a letter then you'll know I'm in jail |
Toot, Toot, Tootsie, by Ernie Erdman/Gus Kahn/Ted Fiorito/Russo/King
from The Jazz Singer
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San Francisco, open your golden gate
You'd let no stranger wait outside your door San Francisco, here is your wandering one Sayin' I'll wander no more Other places make me love you best Tell me you're the heart of all the golden west |
San Francisco, by Jurmann/Kaper/Kahn from
San Francisco
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Meet me in St Louis, Louis
Meet me at the fair Don't tell me the lights are shining Any place but |
Meet Me in St Louis, by Mills/Sterlin from Meet Me in St Louis |
Nothing could be finer
Than to be in Carolina In the morning And nothing could be sweeter Than my sweetie When I meeet her in the mornin' And if I had Aladdin's lamp For only a day I'd make a wish And here's what I'd say |
Carolina in the Morning, by Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn from the
1922 Broadway show,
The Passing Show
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Oh Rock-a-bye my baby with a Dixie Melody
When you croon, croon a tune Right from the heart of Dixie Just hang that cradle, Mammy mine Right on the Mason Dixon Line And swing it from Virginia To Tennessee With all the love that's in ya Weep no more my lady Sing that song again for me Sing, Old Black Joe, just as though you had me on your |
Rock-a-bye My Baby with a Dixie Melody, by Jean Schwartz/Sam
M Lewis/Joe Young/Gershwin/Irving Caesar from the 1918 Broadway show Sinbad
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Swanee, how I love ya, how I love ya,
My dear old Baby face, I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace Me, my sweet embraceable
You and the night and the music
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Swanee, by George and Ira Gershwin
Baby Face, by Benny Davis/Harry Akst Embracable You, by George and Ira Gershwin from An American in Paris You and the Night and the Music, by Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz from the movie version of The Band Wagon |
Will I have rhythm,
Will I have music, Will I have my gal, Who could ask for anything more? This is the love I give to you
You've made my life so glamorous
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I Got Rhythm, by George and Ira Gershwin from An American
in Paris
More, by Ortolani/Oliviereor/Newell
S'Wonderful, by George and Ira Gershwin from the 1927 Broadway musical version of Funny Face
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Me and my shadow
All alone and feeling Blue skies, smiling at me
After you've gone
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Me and My Shadow, by Al Jolson/Dave Dreyer/Billy Rose
Blue Skies, by Irving Berlin from The Jazz Singer
- the first song ever to be used in a film
After You've Gone, by Henry Creamer/Turner Layton
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I'll go my way by myself
Here's where the comedy ends I'll try to deny myself Love and laughter and friends I'll face the unknown I'll build a world of my own Love, love changes Everything's coming up roses And if you're real good
So let me sing a happy song
Why was I born? To make you
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By Myself, by Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz, used in Band
Wagon
Love Changes Everything, by Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black/Hart from Aspects of Love Everything's Coming Up Roses, by Stephen Sondheim/Julie Styne from Gypsy Let Me Entertain You, by Stephen Sondheim/Julie Styne from Gypsy reprise of Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
Why Was I Born?, Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II from the Broadway show Sweet Adeline reprise of Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
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