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Cole Porter at the Piano

Just One of Those Things
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1935

It was just one of those things /
just one of those cra-zy flings /
one of those bells / that now and then ring /
just one of those things /

It was just one of those nights /
just one of those fa-bu-lous flights /
a trip to the moon / on gos-sa-mer wings /
just one of those things /

If we had thought a bit /
of the end of it / when we star-ted pain-ting the town /
We’d have been a-ware / that our love af-fair /
was too hot / not too cool down /

So good-bye dear and a-men /
here’s ho-ping we meet now and then /
It was great fun /
but it was just one of those things

Cole Porter at the Piano

Anything Goes, sung by Cole Porter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5wcLl13a8s&feature=related

Anything Goes, sung by Kate Capshaw, in very bad Mandarin Chinese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5UY3oVJBY

YouTube Search “Anything Goes” “Cole Porter”
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Anything Goes
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1934

Times have cha-anged /
and we’ve of-ten re-wound the clock /
since the Pu-ri-tans got a shock /
when they lan-ded on Ply-mouth Rock /

If to-da-ay /
Any shock they should try to stem /
‘Stead of lan-ding on Ply-mouth Rock /
Ply-mouth Rock would land on the-em /

In olden days a glimpse of stocking
was looked on as something shocking
but now, God knows
Anything goes

Good authors too who once knew better words
now only use four letter words
writing prose, Anything goes.

The world has gone mad today
and good’s bad today
and black’s white today
and day’s night today
When most guys today
that women prize today
are just silly gigolos

And though I’m not a great romancer
I know that I’m bound to answer
when you propose,
Anything goes

When grandmama whose age is eighty
in night clubs is getting matey with gigolos,
Anything goes

When mothers pack and leave poor father
because they decide they’d rather be tennis pros
Anything goes.

If driving fast cars you like
if low bars you like
if old hymns you like
if bare limbs you like
if Mae West you like
or me undressed you like
Why, nobody will oppose!

When every night
the set that’s smart
is intruding in nudist parties in studios
Anything goes

The world has gone mad today
and good’s bad today
and black’s white today
and day’s night today
when most guys today
that women prize today
are just silly gigolos

And though I’m not a great romancer
I know that I’m bound to answer
when you propose
Anything goes

If saying your prayers you like
if green pears you like
if old chairs you like
if back stairs you like,
if love affairs you like
with young bears you like
Why nobody will oppose!

And though I’m not a great romancer
I know that I’m bound to answer
when you propose
Anything goes
Anything goes!

Cole Porter at the Piano

I get a Kick out of You, sung by Felicity on Broadway Soundtracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHuTiDW4PY

I get a Kick out of You
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1934

My sto-ry is much too sad to be told /
but prac-tic-ally eve-ry-thing /
leaves me to-tal-ly cold /
The on-ly ex-cep-tion I know is the case /
when I’m out on a quiet spree /
figh-ting vain-ly the old en-nui
and I sud-den-ly turn and see /
your fa-bu-lous face /

I get no kick from Cham-pagne /
Mere al-co-hol does-n’t thrill me at all /
so tell me why should it be true /
that i get a kick out of you /

Some get a kick from co-caine /
I’m sure that if I took ev-en one sniff /
that would bore me ter-ri-fic-ly too /
yet I get a kick out of you /

I get a kick eve-ry time I see you /
stan-ding there be-fore me /
I get a kick though it’s clear to me /
you ob-vi-ous-ly don’t a-dore me /

I get no kick in a plane /
Fly-ing too high with some gal in the sky /
is my i-dea of no-thing to do /
Yet I get a kick / out of you!

Cole Porter at the Piano

Night and Day, sung by Fred Astaire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5e7mWcQJE&feature=related

Night and Day
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1932

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom /
when the jun-gle sha-dows fall /
Like the tick tick tock of the state-ly clock /
as it stands against the wall /
Like the drip drip drip of the rain-drops /
when the sum-mer show-er is through /
So a voice wi-thin me keeps re-pea-ting / you you you /

Night and day / you are the one /
On-ly you be-neath the moon / and un-der the sun /
Whe-ther near to me or far /
It’s no mat-ter dar-ling / where you are /
I think of you /

Night and day / day and night / why is it so /
That this long-ing for you / fol-lows wher-ever I go /
In the roa-ring traf-fic’s / boom /
In the si-lence of my / lone-ly room /
I think of you /

Night and day / night and day /
Un-der the hide of me /
There’s an oh such a hun-gry year-ning / bur-ning in-side of me /
And this tor-ment won’t be through /
’til you let me spend my life ma-king love to you /
Day and night / night and day!

Brush up Your Shakespeare
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1948

The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
But the poet of them all
Who will start ‘em simply ravin’
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from “Othella”
And they think you’re a heckuva fella.
If your blonde won’t respond when you flatter ‘er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer,
And if still, to be shocked, she pretends well,
Just remind her that “All’s Well That Ends Well.”
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
If your goil is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to “A Midsummer Night Dream.”
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing,
What are clothes? “Much Ado About Nussing.”
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the “Coriolanus.”
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kowtow,
And they’ll all kowtow,
And they’ll all kowtow.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kowtow

Cole Porter at the Piano

Begin the Beguine, sung by Deanna Durbin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rya3UCO5Ao&feature=related

Begin the Beguine, sung by Lia Origoni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zru_GMMnE4g&feature=related

Begin the Beguine
Music by Cole Porter
Lyrics by Cole Porter
1935

When they be-gin the Be-guine /
it brings back the sound / of mu-sic so ten-der /
It brings back a night / of tro-pi-cal splen-dor /
It brings back a me-mo-ry / ev-er-green /

I’m with you once more / un-der the stars /
and down by the shore / an or-che-stra’s pla-ying /
and even the palms / seem to be sway-ing /
when they be-gin / the Be-guine

To live it again / is past all endeavor
except when that tune clutches my heart
And there we are, swearing to love forever
and promising never, never to part.

What moments divine, what rapture serene
till clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted
And now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted
I know but too well what they mean

So don’t let them begin the Beguine
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
When they begin the Beguine.

Oh yes, let them begin the Beguine, make them play
till the stars that were there before return above you
till you whisper to me once more
Darling, I love you!
And we suddenly know What heaven we’re in
when they begin the Beguine

The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, 1959

The Sound of Music
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
1959

The hills are a-live / with the sound of mu-sic /
with songs they have sung / for a thou-sand years /
The hills fill my heart / with the sound of mu-sic /
My heart wants to sing / eve-ry song it hears /

My heart wants to beat / like the wings / of the birds that rise /
from the lake / to the trees /
My heart wants to sigh / like a chime that flies /
from a church / on a breeze /
To laugh like a brook / when it trips and falls / o-ver stones on its way /
to sing through the night / like a lark who is lear-ning to pray /

I go to the hills / when my heart is lone-ly /
I know I will hear / what I’ve heard before /
My heart will be blessed / with the sound of music /
and I’ll sing once more!