Betty Hutton

Well, way down yonder in New Orleans in the land of the dreamy scenes There's a garden of Eden, ah-you know what I mean Yeah, Creole babies with flashin' eyes softly whisper with tender sighs And then you stop! Oh won't you give your lady fair a little smile...

It had to be you, it had to be you I wandered around, and finally found The somebody who could make me be true Could make me be blue or even be glad Just to be sad just thinking of you Some others I've seen might never be mean Might never be cross or try...

I love you a bushel and peck A bushel and peck and a hug around the neck A hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap A barrel and a heap and I'm talking in my sleep About you, about you Cause I love you a bushel and a peck You bet your pretty neck, I do Do...

I used my silver spoon at birth For throwing meatballs at my nurse And much to my regret I can't mingle with the social set. I used the wrong fork at the Stork in New York. My manners ain't fit for a goop. I'm just a square in the social circle. Who put that...

Anything you can do, I can do better I can do anything better than you (No, you can't.) Yes, I can. (No, you can't.) Yes, I can. (No, you can't.) Yes, I can, Yes, I can! (Anything you can be, I can be greater Sooner or later I'm greater than you) No, you're n...

Life was so peaceful at the laundry, Life was so calm and serene, Life was tres gay Till that unlucky day I happened to read that magazine! Why did I read that advertisement, Where it says, "Since I rumba, Jim thinks I'm sublime! ? Why, oh why Did I ever...

The sky ‘round here is cloudy Oh why did I ever roam? ‘Cause the sky is clearer The stars are nearer The moon is a mirror Back home I see the crowds of people Like bees in their honeycomb But a man is bigger His stride has vigor He cuts a figure Ba...

Oomba-oomba-oomba, Banana Boat Take me, take me far away Send your boat amigo And when you float amigo Float me to the USA I see big white boat come in today, Si? I go to boat and I say, Si? Send your boat amigo And when you float amigo Float me to t...

Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a boat to the land of dreams Steam down the river to New Orleans The band is there to meet us Old friends to greet us Where all the light and the dark folks meet Heaven on Earth ..they call it Basin S...

When things go wrong and life’s no song And you’re flat on your back That doesn’t mean you have to lie there Be a jumping jack Keep on the hop and if you flop And everything looks black Stand on your head and holler, “Hi there!” Be a jumping jack Whe...

Along about sun down every day I grab my bucket and I'm on my way Goin' down the road just jumpin' and a kickin' Headin' for the bush to do some blackberry pickin' Everything's fine when it's blackberry pickin' time The boy spied me, I set my bucket down...

Blue skies smiling at me, Nothing but blue skies do I see. Blue birds singing a song, Nothing but blue birds all day long. Never saw the sun shining so bright. Never saw things go oh so right. Noticing the days hurrying by. When you're in love, my my how they...

Do I look funny? Do I act strange? I can feel a mysterious change I saw the best psychiatrist uptown He stroked his beard and he started to frown He said, “I don’t know what’s wrong with you” There wasn’t anything that he could do Don’t want to knock yo...

I don’t wanna get away from you I don’t wanna find a love that’s new So keep me broke, keep me bare-foot Keep me starry-eyed I don’t wanna let my fancies roam I don’t ever wanna stray from home So keep me broke, keep bare-foot Keep me starry-eyed I’v...

His eyes, his nose, his fingers, his toes His smile when he says please And when he sneezes, his sneeze His arms, chest, coat, vest His everything is sweeter than sweet I try and try but honest to Pete I can't stop talkin' about him And talkin' about him and...

Well I know a chicken fell in love with a chicken hawk Yes I know a chicken fell in love with a chicken hawk She fell head over heels for that hawk’s sweet talk She said please mister hawky, will ya take me up in the sky Please mister hawky, take me up in...

I remember all those happy, happy evenings Everything is oh so different now from then Wish I could relive those happy evenings And go back to my Dixie home again Dixie dreams forever haunt me Dixie dreams are fondest of all On my pillow each night I s...

There's a doctor livin' in your town There's a lawyer and an Indian, too And neither doctor, lawyer nor Injun chief Could love you any more than I do There's a barrel of fish in the ocean There's a lot of little birds in the blue And 'Neither fish nor f...

At the early age of three It first occured to me A girl should always try to improve herself. While the others played with toys I practiced charm and poise. And finished Dr. Elliot's five foot shell. I exercised each morning, Cold creamed my face each night,...

Folks are dumb where I come from They ain't had any learnin’ Still they're happy as can be Doin’ what comes natur’lly Folks like us could never fuss With schools and books and learnin’ Still we've gone from A-to-Z Doin’ what comes natur’lly You don’t...

Don’t tell me that story I’ve heard it before Save all of those love songs For one you adore I’ve played Cinderella Lost my slipper at the ball And when it all was over It wasn’t any ball at all, at all Don’t read me that poetry Don’t quote me that...

I’m drunk with love There’s nothing left to thrill me Drunk with love Someday it’s gonna kill me The gates that were open Are shut tight to me I lost the key Can’t you see? I’m drunk with love I wander worn and weary Drunk with love No one to call...

Oh, me and my baby are Goin' Steady, We ain't married but we're gettin' ready To tie the knot, and I'm gonna make her my own. Now that I've found her I'm gonna keep her; Finders keepers, losers weepers, She's my baby, she's Goin' Steady with me. Well, I've bee...

This is the story of Hamlet William Shakespeare’s most notable play A magnificent, dignified work of art But for you, buster, I guess I oughta tell it this way: Hamlet was the prince of a spot called Denmark There never was such a frantic guy either befo...

Everyone tells me he's no good He doesn't love me like he should I would forget him if I only could He's a demon, he's a devil, he's a doll That man can look me in the eye And tell the biggest, sweetest lie And I forget that lipstick on his tie He's a demon,...

Heart throb What makes my heart throb When baby whispers Close in my ear Heart throb What makes my heart throb When baby holds me Ever so near Heart throb Please tell me, my heart throb Will you and your kiss Rob me of all my love I need you mad...

I must sit down for a minute, I'm ready to fall in a heap Willie's been fed and I've tucked him in bed, thank goodness the darling's asleep He's a wonderful boy and a joy and a boon SPOKEN: Ahh, gee, you should have seen him this afternoon Bang went the...

Bye bye baby Time to hit the road to dreamland You're my baby Dig you in the land of nod Hold tight baby We'll be swinging up in dreamland All night baby Where the little cherubs trot Look at that knocked out moon Been a-blowing his top in the blue Never saw t...

I've got a guy, I like him fine But he takes me for granted all of the time To teach him a lesson and make him mad, I went out on a date with the best friend he had That made him mad boy, hot dog, that made him mad And he hugged me and he kissed me and he ask...

How long, how long Has that evening train been gone How long, how long, baby, how long That mean old varmint, cruel engineer Took my baby, left me standing here So long, so long, baby, so long That man used to wonder But he said that his traveling was...

I get to bed about half past three And that's not supposed to be so good for me Still I wake up in the morning feeling fine. I never bother with a coffee blend The blend all the famous doctor's recommend Still I wake up in the morning feeling fine. It must be...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ I wish I didn't love you so, My love for you Should have faded long ago. I wish I didn't need your kiss, Why must your kiss Torture me as long as this? I might be smiling by now With some new tender friend, Smiling by now With my heart on the...

I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray The good Lord up above Will please send me down somebody to love Cause nobody wants me I'm blue somehow Won't someone hear my plea And take a chance with me Because I'm nobody's baby now Nobody's, I'...

Taking stock of what I have and what I haven't What do I find? The things I got will keep me satisfied Checking up on what I have and what I haven't What do I find? A healthy balance on the credit side Got no diamonds, got no pearls Still I think I'm a lucky...

Why do I do, just as you say Why must I just give you your way Why do I sigh, why do I try to forget It must have been, That something lovers call fate Kept me saying: "I have to wait" I saw them all, Just couldn't fall 'til we met It had to be you, i...

Girls! Girls! Watch out! Watch out! There's a two legged animal running about If it smokes a great big cigar and it hangs around at a bar if it tells the biggest lies, wears the loudest ties it's a man If it acts just like a crossed patch Has a face...

Shh! Shh! It’s oh so quiet. Shh! Shh! It’s oh so still. Shh! Shh! You’re all alone. Shh! Shh! And so peaceful until You fall in love! Zing boom! The sky up above Zing boom! Is caving in! Wham bam! You’ve never been so nuts about a guy. You want to laugh, you...

I put an end to love Before I even start Just because My eyes are bigger than my heart I can't be true to no one No matter how I try On account of my fickle eye Fickle eye, fickle eye, fickle eye Now I may say I love you Then bid you fond goodbye On account...

Now one time there lived an old man With a very crooked nose He lived inside a log hut And they called him ol' man Mose One dark and dreary morning I knocked upon his door I didn't hear a single sound So I ain't gonna do it no more. 'Cos I believe ol' man, I...

He always sings raggy music to the cattle As he swings back and forward in the saddle On a horse that is syncopated, gaited And there's such a funny meter to the roar of his repeater How they run when they hear that fellow's gun Because the Western folks all k...

I want to take you to a little room A little room where all the roses bloom I want to lead you into Nature's hall Where ev'ry year the roses give a ball They have an orchestra up in the trees For their musicians are the birds and bees And they will sing us a s...

I gotta move. I gotta move. That's what I tell my landlord, landlord! I gotta move! Cause there's a man lives right upstairs from me Making a nightmare of some melody. This is a situation not likely to improve. He goes a' rumble rumble rumble on the left han...

I was alone on the shelf In a world by myself. Oh where could me prince charming be? But a man came along, Made my life like a song And taught me these words of ecstacy tenderly. I want some huggin' and some squeezin' and some muggin' and some teasin' And som...

I love a feller and he loves me But his mind has got a very strange twist. I hesitate to introduce him to my friends. In fact I'm thinking of introducing him to a psychoanalyst. He keeps telling me he doesn't like my hat. The brim's a little grim. The crown's...

The Dipsy Doodle is the thing to beware The Dipsy Doodle will get in your hair If it gets you it couldn't be worse The things you say will come out in reverse "You love I, oh, me love you" That's the way the Dipsy Doodle works Oh, the Dipsy Doodle is ea...

I broke my watch the other night I broke my watch ‘cause I wound it too tight I broke my watch ‘round quarter past nine So I took it ‘round the corner to a friend of mine I don’t know how he does it, but he does it I don’t know how he does it, but he doe...

What’s it gonna be, your dancing or me? You must make a choice most definitely I keep singing the blues I’m playing second fiddle to your dancing shoes What good’s the moonlight The stars and the starlight What good is romance Obviously, the gentleman...

Come to the circus The greatest show on earth Come to the circus See the circus If we’re not very careful Life can overwork us So take today and make it gay For there are too many tears along the way So come to the circus It’s circus day today Come s...

Listen all you chillunto that voodoo moan, There's a modern villunworser than that old boogie woogie, When that goofy critterspot your fancy clothes, He injects a jitter, Starts you dancing on a thousand toes, There he goes. Who's that hiding in the tree top?...

They say that falling love is wonderful It's wonderful, so they say And with the moon up above, it's wonderful It's wonderful, so they tell me I can't recall who said it I know I've never read it I only know they tell me that love is grand, and The thing that...

Funniest pair of eyes I've ever seen Funny I can't get wise to what they mean I wish that I could understand the things you say Each time I try to go, you seem to make me stay Maybe it's just because you like to flirt Maybe you want to see my feelings hurt Yo...

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