DOWN IN THE DEPTHS
From the Broadway Show "Red, Hot And Blue" (1936)
(Cole Porter)

Ethel Merman - 1936
Ruby Newman & Orch. - 1936
Helen Carr - 1955
Mabel Mercer - 1955
Johnny Hartman - 1955
Ella Fitzgerald - 1972
William Bolcom & Joan Morris - 1988
Julie Wilson - 1990
Lisa Stansfield - 1991
Tony Bennett - 1995
Bud Noble - 2000
Also recorded by: Blossom Dearie; Pamela Myers; 
Hugh Shannon; Sylvia Syms; Portia Nelson.


Verse

Manhattan-I’m up a tree
The one I’ve most adored
Is bored 
With me.
Manhattan, I’m awf’lly nice,
Nice people dine with me,
And even twice.
Yet the only one in the world I’m mad about
Talks of somebody else
And walks out.

Refrain

With a million neon rainbows burning below me
And a million blazing taxis raising a roar
Here I sit, above the town
In my pet pailletted gown*
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.
While the crowds at El Morocco punish the parquet
And at “21” the couples clamor for more**
I’m deserted and depressed
In my regal eagle nest
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.
When the only one you wanted wants another
What’s the use of swank and cash in the bank galore?
Why, even the janitor’s wife
Has a perfectly good love life***
And here am I
Facing tomorrow
Alone with my sorrow
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.

* Or:
Here I sit while deep despair
Haunts my castle in the air

** Or:
While the founders at Leon and Eddie’s “roll down the mountain”
And the mobs that storm the Stork Club clutter the door,

**Or:
While the crowds in all the night clubs punish the parquet
And the bars are packed with couples calling for more,

*** Or:
Why, even the janitor’s wife
Has some sentiment in her life


*****


DOWN IN THE DEPTHS

Lisa Stanfield


With a million neon rainbows burning below me
And a million blazing taxis raising a roar
Here I sit, above the town
In my pet pailletted gown
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.

While the crowds in all the night clubs punish the parquet
And the bars are packed with couples calling for more

I'm deserted and depressed
In my regal eagle nest
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.

When the only one you wanted wants another
What's the use of swank and cash in a bank galore?
Why, even the janitor's wife
Has a perfectly good love life
And here am I 
Facing tomorrow
Alone with my sorrow
Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.

When the only one you wanted wants another
What's the use of swank and cash in a bank galore?
Why, even the janitor's wife
Has a perfectly good love life
And here am I 
Facing tomorrow
Alone with my sorrow
I'm down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.

Still in the depths on the ninetieth floor
With a million neon rainbows burning below me.



(Contributed by Carlene Bogle - 2002)