Make Mine Music

Make mine music (Darby / Gilbert)

Make mine music
make mine music and my heart will sing
make mine music and it's always spring

All the world goes romancing
when melody fills the night
and even the stars go dancing
to the music of the moonlight

Make mine music and I'll dream of you
make mine music and the dream comes true

Music will play the shadows away
when everything seems to go wrong
so make mine music and life will be a song
make mine music

The Martins and the Coys (Cameron / Weems / arr. Wallace)

Gather 'round me, children, and I'll tell a story
of the mountains in the days when guns was law
when two families got disputing
it was bound to end in shooting
so just listen and I'll tell you what I saw

Oh, the Martins and the Coys
they was reckless mountain boys
and they took up family feuding when they'd meet (every durn time)
they could shoot each other quicker
than it took your eye to flicker
they could knock a squirrel's eye out at 90 feet

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Oh, their fighting started one bright Sunday morning (I remember)
cause old Grampa Coy was full of mountain dew, dew, dew
just as quiet as a church mouse
he stole in the Martin's hen house
cause the Coys, they needed eggs for breakfast too

After that they started out to fight in earnest
and they scarred the mountains up with shot and shell
there was uncles, brothers, cousins
why, they bumped them off by dozens
just how many bit the dust, it's hard to tell

Oh, the Martins and the Coys
they were reckless mountain boys
at the art of killin' they became quite deft (mighty deft)
they all knowed they shouldn't do it
but before they hardly knew it
on each side they only had one person left (only one person left)

Now the sole remaining Martin was a maiden
and as pretty as a picture was this Grace
now the one surviving Coy
was the handsome Henry Coy
and the folks all knew they'd soon be face-to-face

So they finally met upon a mountain pathway
and Henry Coy, he aimed his gun at Grace (right at Grace)
he was set to pull the trigger
when he saw her purty figure
you could see that love had kicked him in the face

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Oh, the Martins and the Coys
they were reckless mountain boys
but they say their ghostly cussing gives you chills
cause the hatchet sure was buried
once sweet Grace and Henry married
it broke up the best durn feud in these here hills

Now you may think that this is where the story ended
but I'm telling you them ghosts don't cuss no more
cause since Grace and Henry wedded
they fight worse than all the rest did
and they carry on the feud just like before

Blue bayou (Worth / Gilbert)

Roll along, blue bayou
through the silvery foam
in the deep where sleepy shadows roam
while we roll, blue bayou
in your dreamy light
memories echo in my heart tonight

I hear the echo of our song of love murmuring low
(murmuring, murmuring low)
and here am I still haunted by the ghost of long ago

Roll along, blue bayou
through the silvery foam
roll the blue and sleepy shadows home

Roll along, blue bayou
through the silvery foam
in the deep where sleepy shadows roam
while we roll, blue bayou
in your dreamy light
memories echo in my heart tonight

Roll along, blue bayou
through the silvery foam
roll the blue and sleepy shadows home
roll along, blue bayou
through the silvery foam
roll the blue and sleepy shadows home
across the blue moon

All the cats join in (Wilder / Sauter / Gilbert)

Hop in the old jalop and head for the malted shop and all the cats join in
Down goes my last two bits comes up one banana split and all the cats join in

Drop your jack in the old jukebox play your favorite disc
when you dance with the bobby socks you dance at your own risk

Rip, everybody swing, yes, swing til the rafters ring and all the cats join in

Rafters ringin', how they're swingin', all the cats join in

Without you (Farres / Gilbert)

I'm so lonely and blue
when I'm without you
I don't know what I'd do
sweetheart, without you
the joy and tears that love endears would have no meaning
if I didn't have you to keep me dreaming

At the close of each day
when I'm without you
and my heart kneels to pray
I pray about you
you take a star and lead it far away from heaven
and the star will be lost as I'm lost without you

Casey, the pride of them all (Darby / Daniel / Gilbert)

Oh, what a lark to ride out to the park
and just to see Casey
they travel for miles and they stand in the aisles
and just to see Casey
the ladies don't understand baseball a bit
they don't know a strike from a foul or a hit
but when they see Casey the game has got it
Casey, the pride of them all

Oh, the outlook wasn't brilliant
for the Mudville Nine that day
the score was four to two
with but one inning left to play

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Oh, Casey's the guy with his eye on the ball
but mostly the ladies
Casey's the guy who's the idol of all
but mostly the ladies
Casey is mighty and manly
Casey's a dangerous gent
egad, when he goes to bat hang on to your hat
he's batting a thousand percent with the ladies

Oh, Casey has nerve and he knows every curve
he's no hokey pokey
he gets away with that old double play
he's sure okey dokey
he makes all the ladies go ga-ga, it's true
no wonder they swoon when he comes into view
he was the Sinatra of 1902
Casey, the pride of them all

.....

Somewhere in this favored land
the sun is shining bright (ah, yes)
somewhere bands are playing sweet
and somewhere hearts are light
somewhere men are laughing
somewhere children shout
spoken : but there is no joy in Mudville
mighty Casey has struck out

Casey, the pride of them all

Two silhouettes (Wolcott / Gilbert)

Two silhouettes together in the afterglow
two silhouettes become as one when lights are low
and with the night slumbering on we'll build a dream for two
a perfect dream set to a theme lovely as you

Two hearts on fire will soon inspire the stars to dance
the flames that stray will light the way to our romance
and when I hold you in my arms to my heart's delight
two silhouettes will drift away into the night

Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet (Wrubel / Gilbert)

Johnnie Fedora met Alice Blubonnet
in the window of a department store
'twas love at first sight
and they promised one night
they'd be sweethearts forevermore
Johnnie would serenade Alice
too-ra-lay, too-ra-lie, too-ra-loo
he sang of a beautiful palace
of a beautiful hatbox for two

But Johnnie Fedora lost Alice Blubonnet
to a patron of the department store
her beauty was sought by
the girl she was bought by
for twenty-three ninety-four (23.94)

Johnnie, oh, Johnnie
your Alice Bluebonnet
will always be waiting for you
so don't give up hoping
and don't give up dreaming
for true love will come smiling through

Johnnie Fedora was lonely and stranded
in the window of the department store
when lo' and behold
he was suddenly sold
and his heart became gay once more
Johnnie sang out like a robin
too-ra-lay, too-ra-lie, too-ra-loo
to strangers he'd come up a-bobbin', oh
I thought you were someone I knew

He looked for her uptown and crosstown and downtown
from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Jersey shore
it all seemed in vain
til he heard the refrain
of the song Alice sang of yore

Johnnie, oh, Johnnie
your Alice Bluebonnet
will always be waiting for you
so don't give up hoping
and don't give up dreaming
for true love will come smiling through

.....

Johnnie kept yearning, he kept on returning
to the window of the department store
his voice became hushed
he was literally crushed
and it started to rain and pour
each place he went he kept calling
too-ra-lay, too-ra-lie, too-ra-loo
his spirits kept falling and falling
for his Alice was nowhere in view

But, hey, nonnie-nonnie, an iceman found Johnnie
and he cut him to fit on his horse's ears
'twas done without malice
for beside him was Alice
and they lived on for years and years

You Johnnie Fedoras
you Alice Bluebonnets
whenever you find yourself blue
you'll find it's June in December
if you'll just remember
that true love will come smiling through
that true love will come smiling through

The whale who wanted to sing at the Met ( Darby / Gilbert)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, this is how it all began
just a little back page item about a voice that sang at sea
and then this fantastic news appeared on the front page
and then in screaming headlines

A singing whale (what do ya know) imagine that
hum, I don't believe it, I don't believe it
for who ever heard of an operatic whale
I don't believe it, I don't believe it
then headline followed headline

then doctors and experts
and men of anatomical biology
debated and argued
and quoted ichthyology

Impossible, preposterous
we savagely deny it
magnificent (ya), miraculous (ya)
we certainly certify it

And even the great impresario
of the grand opera
raised an eyebrow
and tried and tried to figure it out

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Oh, get-a me a great big schooner
and get-a me a good harpooner
photographers and reporters
from all the newspapers
publicity, publicity, publicity

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Good-bye, my friends
I'm off to be discovered
tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
I'm off to be discovered