Tytuł: Let's take a walk around the block

• Wykonawca: Ella Fitzgerald
• Wyświetleń: 171

  
   I never traveled further North than old Van Courtland Park
  and never further South than the aquarium
  I've seen the charm of Jersey City, but first let me remark
  I saw it from the empire state solarium
  
  But we've been putting nickels in the postal savings bank
  and when those nickels pile up, we can toddle off in swank
  and I don't mean an ordinary cook's tour
  I mean a cabin de-luxe tour
  
  Someday we'll go places
  New lands and new faces
  The day we quit punching the clock
  The future looks pleasant,
  But at present
  Let's take a walk around the block.
  
  You're just the companion
  I want at Grand Canyon
  for throwing old blades down the rock
  The money we have`ll go for travel
  Meantime, let's walk around the block.
  
  Gangway, we'll begin
  When our, ship comes in
  I'll sit on your lap
  All over the map
  
  To London in May time
  To Venice in play time
  To Paris in time for a frock
  To Boston in bean time
  Darling, meantime
  Let's take a walk around the block.
  
  (bridge)
  
  In Winter at Christmas,
  We'll visit the isthmus
  And see how they lock up a lock
  And then in Caracas, on a jackass,
  We'll take a ride around the block.
  
  We'll keep to our promise,
  To visit St. Thomas
  And then at Jamaica we'll dock
  The prospect is thrilling,
  Still I am willing,
  Just now to walk around the block.
  
  Onward, to Cathay
  Then to Mandalay
  Boom on to Bangkok
  P'r'aps Vladivostok
  
  We'll send the folks cables
  Accumulate labels
  Buy souvenirs till we're in hock
  But since we are flat in old Manhattan
  Let's take a walk around the block.