IT HAPPENED IN SUN VALLEY
Harry Warren (m) Mack Gordon (l)  1941

as rec by Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle, 
Tex Beneke & The Modernaires w Glenn Miller & his Orch  
August 11th 1941 New York

also rec by Jo Stafford



Howdy folks, let's go for a ride,
Get your favourite one to sit by your side;
Cuddle up in sleigh,
Giddy-up Dolly Grey!
And away we go!
While you listen to the sleigh bells ring,
Yodelling to your baby,
You'll feel nice and warm,
No matter how cold it may be.

Take a look at little Jack and Jill,
They ski down a hill;
That's a snow plough turn
And look, there's a spill!
There's a spill on a hill;
When you're down it's a thrill
To go up again!

Everybody ought to learn to ski,
For that is how we first met;
We were that Jack and Jill
That came down a hill,
When I looked at you
My heart took a spill!
Took a spill on a hill,
It's a thrill that I can't forget!

It happened in Sun Valley,
Not so very long ago;
There were sunbeams in the snow, (poor snow),
And a twinkle in your eye!
I remember oh so clearly
That you nearly passed me by,
Then it happened in Sun Valley,
When you slipped and fell and so did I!

It happened in Sun Valley,
Not so very long ago;
There were sunbeams in the snow,
And I fell in love when I saw
That twinkle in your eye!
I remember oh so clearly
That you nearly passed me by,
Then it happened in Sun Valley,
When you slipped and fell and so did I!

Now every year we go back, and then
We recall that fall and that moment when
We were there on a hill,
So we both take a spill,
And we're Jack and Jill,
Again!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - November 2009)