Outdoors
Big and Little
Birds & Beast
Broadway Songs
The Songs of Cole Porter
100

She'll be comin' round the mountain......

When she comes.

The original song was published in Old Plantation Hymns in 1899. It ostensibly refers to the Second Coming of Christ and subsequent Rapture, with the she referring to the chariot that the returning Christ is depicted as driving.

100

Big girls don't...

Cry

"Big Girls Don't Cry" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons.

100

Doe, a dee, a female deer, Ray, a drop of....

Golden sun.

A deer, a female deer
Re, a drop of golden sun
Mi, a name, I call myself
Fa, a long, long way to run
So, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow So
Ti, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do

100

Anything you can do...

I can do better?

100

Anthing "____"

Goes

"Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical Anything Goes (1934). Many of the lyrics include humorous references to figures of scandal and gossip from Depression-era high society."

200

You'd look sweet upon the seat of.....

 

A bicycle built for two.

A popular song written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre with the well-known chorus: "Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you", ending with the words "a bicycle built for two". The song is said to have been inspired by Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, one of the many mistresses of King Edward VII.

200

On the Big Rock Candy....

Mountain.

Big Rock Candy Mountain, complex of carbonate hills, about 5,500 feet (1,675 metres) tall, on the edge of one segment of Fishlake National Forest, near Marysvale, south-central Utah, U.S.


200

She's only a bird in...

A gilded cage.

200

There's no business like...

Show business.
200

Too "____" hot

Darn

It's too darn hot
It's too darn hot
I'd like to sup with my baby tonight
Refill the cup with my baby tonight
I'd like to sup with my baby tonight
Refill the cup with my baby tonight
But I ain't up to my baby tonight
'Cause it's too darn hot

300

On the boardwalk in....

Atlantic City.

"On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City
We will walk in a dream
On the Boardwalk in Atlantic city
Life will be peaches and cream"

300

I'll say alittle prayer for....

You.

300

If U could talk to...

The Animals

300

I love you a bushel and a....

Peck

300

You'd Be So Easy To "____"

Love

"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes."

400

Walkin' in a ...

Winter Wonderland.

"Winter Wonderland" is a winter oriented song often played during the Christmas holiday season. The song was created around 1934 via Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith. The lyrics for Winter Wonderland talk about Parson Brown in the first bridge and a circus clown later in the song.

400

Oh where, oh where has...

My little dog gone

Where, oh where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
With his ears cut short
And his tail cut long
Oh where, oh where can he be?

400

When  my sugar walks down the street....

All the birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet.

A 1920s jazz standard, written by Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills in 1924.

400

Get me to the Church...

On time.

400

In The Still OF The "____"

Night

In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you

500

June is bustin' out....

All Over.

The song is from Carousel.






500

Put alittle love in...

Your Heart.

500

Yellow bird, up high in...

Banana tree.

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me
Did your lady friend leave the nest again?
Oh, how very sad, make me feel so bad
You can fly away, in the sky away
You're more lucky than me

500

When the idle poor become...

The idle rich.

500

Don't "_____" Me In

Fence

Originally written in 1934 for Adios, Argentina, an unproduced 20th Century Fox film musical, "Don't Fence Me In" was based on text by Robert (Bob) Fletcher, a poet and engineer with the Department of Highways in Helena, Montana. Cole Porter, who had been asked to write a cowboy song for the 20th Century Fox musical, bought the poem from Fletcher for $250.

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