(I'VE GOT) BEGINNER'S LUCK
From the film "Shall We Dance" (1937)
(George & Ira Gershwin)
Fred Astaire - 1937
Tommy Dorsey Orch. (vocal: Jack Leonard) - 1937
Bobby Short - 1956
Ella Fitzgerald - 1959
Maureen McGovern - 1989
I've got beginner's luck
The first time that I'm in love
I'm in love with you
Gosh, I'm lucky
I've got beginner's luck
They told me beginners win
Now I know it's true
Gosh, I'm fortunate
The thing we've begun
Is much more than a pastime
For this time is the one
Where the first time is the last time
I've got beginner's luck
Lucky through and through
'Cause the first time that I'm in love
I'm in love with you
At any gambling casino
From Monte Carlo to Reno
They tell you that a beginner
Comes out a winner
Beginner fishing for flounder
Will catch a seventeen pounder
That's what I've always heard
And always thought absurd,
But now, I believe every word
I've got beginner's luck
The first time that I'm in love
I'm in love with you
I've got beginner's luck
There never was such a smile
Or such eyes of blue
This thing we've begun
Is much more than a pastime
For this time is the one
Where the first time is the last time
'Cause the first time that I'm in love
The very first time that I'm in love
The first time that I'm in love
I'm in love with you
