LET'S KISS AND MAKE UP
fr "Funny Face" 1927 musical
George Gershwin (m) Ira Gershwin (l)  1927

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald w Nelson Riddle & his Orch  
March 26th 1959 Hollywood

also rec by-



I didn't mean to
Start any scene to
Make you sigh,
Hope you die.
It's most immoral
For us to quarrel,
Why can't we
Both agree?

Don't you know
Ben Franklin wrote a book
About this thing at length,
On the proposition that
In union there is strength?
Why raise a storm up?
If we'll just warm up,
The blues will slumber,
We'll have their number!

Let's kiss and make up,
Come on, let's wake up,
For I need you and you need me!
Let's kiss and make up,
No use to break up
When we can live in harmony!

I'll give you your way,
You give me my way,
And out the doorway
Our cares will fly away!

If we be happy,
The way is clear;
Let's kiss and make up,
No use to break up,
We need each other, dear!

Let's kiss and make up,
No cares to rake up,
For I need you and you need me!
No reprimanding,
Full understanding
That we can live in harmony!

The world is prosy
When we are fighting,
Let's make it rosy
By reuniting!

Two heads are better
Than one, I hear,
Let's kiss and make up,
No use to break up,
We need each other, dear!

Why should we shake up
A new earthquake up?
Take the uptake up
And soon they'll bake up
A wedding cake up!
Let's kiss and make up,
We need each other, dear!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2012)