I'M A POACHED EGG [WITHOUT TOAST]

from 1964 film "kiss Me, Stupid"
(George Gershwin (m) Ira Gershwin (l) 1964*)

as recorded by
Ella Fitzgerald
1964


I'm a poached egg without a piece of toast,
Yorkshire pudding without a beef to roast,
I'm a haunted house that hasn't got a ghost
When I'm without you!

I'm a mouse trap without a piece of cheese,
I'm Vienna without the Viennese,
I'm Da Vinci  without the Mona Lise,
I'm skies without blue!

When you don't hang around I'm a kangaroo without a hop,
When will you show me that as Romeo you're not a flop?

I'm a western without a hitching post,
I'm a network without a coast-to-coast,
Just a poached egg without a piece of toast
Each time I'm without you!

I am Venice without a gondolier
Or Milwaukee without a glass of beer,
Could be Switzerland without a mountaineer
When I'm without you!

Like Columbus without Queen Isabel,
Neiman Marcus without a thing to sell,
Mister Hilton with only one hotel,
And what can I do?

Each time you wander
Hither and yonder,
Don't know where I'm at!
I only know
I'm lonely, so
I'm here to tell you that

I'm a girlfriend without a thing to post,
Any egghead would have me diagnosed
As a poached egg without a piece of toast
Each time I'm without you!
I'm a poached egg!

* - lyrics written in 1964 to George Gershwin's 
previously written and unpublished music





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - December 2013)