HIGH SOCIETY
(Cole Porter)


HIGH SOCIETY CALYPSO 
(Cole Porter)
Louis Armstrong - 1956


(Armstrong)
Just dig that scenery floating by,
We're now approaching Newport, Rhode I.
We've been, for years, In Variety,
But, Cholly Knickerbocker, now we're going to be

(All)
In High, High So-
High So-ci-,
High So-ci-ety.

(Armstrong)
I wanna play for my former pal-
He runs the local jazz festival.
His name is Dexter and he's good news,
But sumping kind of tells me that he's nursing the blues

(All)
In High, High So-,
High So-ci-,
High So-ci-ety.

(Armstrong)
He's got the blues 'cause his wife, alas,
Thought writing songs was beneath his class,
But writing songs he'd not stop, of course,
And so she flew to Vegas for a quickie divorce

(All)
In High, High So-,
High So-ci-,
High So-ci-ety.

(Armstrong)
To make him sadder, his former wife
begins tomorrow a brand-new life.
She started lately a new affair
And now the silly chick is gonna marry a square

(All)
In High So-,
High So-ci-,
High So-ci-ety.

(Armstrong)
But, Brother Dexter, just trust your Satch,
To stop that wedding and kill that match.
I'll toot my trumpet to start the fun,
And play in such a way that she'll come back to you, son,

(All)
In High, High So-
High So-ci-,
High So-ci-ety. 


*****


LITTLE ONE 
Album : High Society
(Cole Porter)
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby


Little one, what should I do?
I just can't make any headway with you.

Little one, I was so gloomy,
Felt that life sure would undo me,
till, one night, you happened to me,
My little one.

Little one, no controversy,
You're my downfall, you're my Circe,
I'm a good guy, show me mercy,
My little one.
I have such love for you
Our future could be
Heaven above for you
And paradise for me.
Little one, fate might miscarry,
Little one, why do you tarry?
Little one, when may I marry you,
My little one?


*****


WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE 
(Cole Porter)
Frank Sinatra & Celeste Holms


Who wants to be a millionaire? I don't. 
Have flashy flunkeys everywhere? I don't. 
Who wants the bother of a country estate? 
A country estate is something I'd hate! 
Who wants to wallow in champagne? I don't. 
Who wants a supersonic plane? I don't. 
Who wants a marble swimming pool too? I don't. 
And I don't `cause all I want is you. 

Who wants to be a millionaire? I don't. 
Who wants uranium to spare? I don't. 
Who wants to journey on a gigantic yacht? 
Do I want a yacht? Oh, how I do not! 
Who wants a fancy foreign car? I don't. 
Who wants to tire of caviar? I don't 
Who wants a private landing field too? I don't. 
And I don't `cause all I want is you. 


*****


TRUE LOVE 
(Cole Porter)
Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly - 1956


I give to you and you give to me 
True love, true love 
So on and on it will always be 
True love, true love 

(For you and I have a guardian angel) 
(On high, with nothing to do) 
But to give to you and to give to me 
Love forever true 

True love, true love (2x)

(For you and I have a guardian angel) 
(On high, with nothing to do) 
But to give to you and to give to me 
Love forever true (2x)


*****


YOU'RE SENSATIONAL 
Album & Movie : High Society
(Cole Porter)
Frank Sinatra & Celeste Holm


I've no proof when people say you're more or less aloof, 
But you're sensational. 
I don't care if you are called "The Fair Miss Frigidaire", 
'Cause you're sensational. 

You come on like a dream,
And if you'll say that one fine day you'll let me come to call 
We'll have a ball 
'Cause you're sensational... 
Sensational. 
That's all... (3x)


*****


I LOVE YOU, SAMANTHA 
Movie : High Society
(Cole Porter)
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby


Samantha, you're all
I'll ever adore,
So forgive me, do,
If I say to you
what I've said so often before.

I love you, Samantha,
and my love will never die.
Remember, Samantha,
I'm a one-gal guy.
Together, Samantha,
We could ride a star and ride it high.
Remember, Samantha,
I'm a one-gal guy.
And if some distant day
you decided to say,
"Get along, go away, goodbye!"
Remember, Samantha,
I'm a one-gal guy.
Remember, Samantha,
I'm a one-gal guy.


*****


NOW YOU HAS JAZZ
Album : High Society
(Cole Porter)
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby


Gentlefolk of Newport
Or should I say "hats and cats,"
Please lend an ear
That you all may hear
Some shimmering sharps and flats.
For those cosy virtuosi,
known as "hipsters" to the trade,
wish to show you now
Precisely how
Jazz music is made.

Take some skins,
Jazz begins,
Take a bass
Steady pace,
Take a box,
One that rocks,
Take a blue horn New Orleans-born.
Take a stick
With a lick,
Take a bone,
Dixie-grown,
Take a spot,
Cool and hot,
Now you has jazz jazz jazz, jazz, jazz.

Now you has, (6x)
Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz,
Now you
Has,
Now you
Has,
Now you
Has,
Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz.

Jazz, (6x)
Now you has jazz, (3x)

EXTRA REFRAIN
If you sail
Over the sea,
Take my tip
They're all molto hip
In Italy.
As for France,
Believe it or not,
Frenchmen all 
prefer what they call
"Le Jazz Hot."
Take a plane
Go to Siam,
In Bangkok
Today, 'round the clock,
They have a jam.
Indians on
the Amazon
Beat one bar
and all of 'em are
gone, man, gone.
From the Equator
Up to the Pole,
Through the air
you hear everywhere
Rock and roll.
From the East
Out to the West,
Jazz is king,
'Cause jazz is the thing
Folks
Dig
Best. 


*****


WELL DID YOU EVAH ? 
Album : High Society
(Cole Porter)
Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra


Have you heard? The coast of Maine just got caught in a hurricane? 
Well did you ever? What a swell party this is! 
Have you heard that poor dear Blanche got run down by an avalanche? 
Well, did you ever? What a swell party this is! 
What daiquiris! What sherry, please! What burgundy! What pommery! 
Have you heard? Professor Munch ate his wife and divorced his lunch? 
Well, did you ever ? What a swell party this is! 

Misses Smith in her new Hup crossed the bridge when the bridge was up, 
Well, did you ever ? What a swell part this is! 
What brandy, wow! What whiskey, here's how! 
What gin and what beer, will you sober up, dear?


*****


MIND IF I MAKE LOVE TO YOU ? 
(Cole Porter)
Frank Sinatra


In the heavens, stars are dancing and the mounting moon is new, 
What a rare night for romancing, mind if I make love to you? 
Since the dear day of our meeting, I wanted to tell you all I long to do, 
Dawn is nearing, time is fleeting, mind if I make love to you?