MAKE IT ANOTHER OLD-FASHIONED, PLEASE

From the Broadway Show "Panama Hattie" (1940)

(Cole Porter)


Ethel Merman (Broadway Production) - 1940

Leo Reisman & Orch. - 1940

Mitchell Ayres & Orch. - 1940

Xavier Cugat & Orch. - 1940

Bea Wain - 1940

Ann Sothern (Film Soundtrack) - 1942

Julie London - 1962

Ernestine Anderson - 1967




Since I went on the wagon

I'm certain drink is a major crime

For when you lay off the liquor

You feel so much slicker

Well, that is, most of the time

But there are moments, sooner or later

When it's tough, I've got to say, not to say ... Waiter


Make it another old-fashioned, please

Make it another double old-fashioned, please

Make it for one who's due to join the disillusion crew

Make it for one of love's new refugees


Once high in my castle, I reigned supreme

And oh, what a castle, built on a heavenly dream

Then quick as a lightning flash

That castle began to crash

So, make it another old-fashioned, please


Leave out the cherry

Leave out the orange

Leave out the bitters

Just make it a straight rye!



(Transcribed by Monique Adriaansen & Mel Priddle - February 2004)



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SELDOM HEARD ADDITIONAL VERSE:


Once I owned a treasure, so rare, so pure

The greatest of treasures, happiness safe and secure

But like ev'ry hope too rash

My treasure I find is trash

So make it another old-fashioned, please



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