OOPS!
>From the film "The Belle Of New York" (1952)
(Harry Warren / Johnny Mercer)


Fred Astaire (Film Soundtrack) - 1952
Doris Day - 1952
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (with Dave Barbour & His Orch.) - 1957






As recorded by DORIS DAY:

Oops!, my heart went Oops!
The moment that we met
My heart went Oops!
I never will forget
My heart turned hoops
The moment that I met you

Oops!, my feet went Oops!
I nearly took a spill
My knees went Oops!
They shook a bit until
My head went Oops!
You mustn't let it get you

I was goin' for a very 
What you call a solitary 
Sort o' stroll
Just a-twiddlin' my thumbs 
When I heard a lotta drums
Begun to pound and roll

And Oops!, my heart went Oops!
It went into a spin
Of loop-the-loops
You must have thought me kin
To nincompoops
The silly way I acted

Of course you wouldn't know
That you were so aglow
And I was so attracted
But baby, take a bow
My heart is going Oops! right now

(Orchestral Interlude)

I was goin' for a very 
What you call a solitary 
Sort o' stroll
Just a-twiddlin' my thumbs 
When I heard a lotta drums
Begun to pound and roll

And Oops!, my heart went Oops!
It went into a spin
Of loop-the-loops
You must have thought me kin
To nincompoops
The silly way I acted

Of course you wouldn't know
That you were so aglow
And I was so attracted
But baby, take a bow
My heart is going Oops! Oops! Oops! right now


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As recorded by ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS ARMSTRONG:

ARMSTRONG:
Ummm, Oops!, my heart went Oops!
The moment that we met
My heart went Oops!
I never will forget
My heart turned hoops
The moment that I met you

FITZGERALD:
Oops!, my feet went Oops!
I nearly took a spill
My knees went Oops!
They shook a bit until
My head went Oops!
You mustn't let it get you

ARMSTRONG:
I was going for a very 
What you'd call a solitary 
Sort of stroll
Just a-twiddlin' my thumb 
When I heard a lotta drum 
Begun to pound and roll

FITZGERALD:
And Oops!, my heart went Oops!
It went into a spin
Of loop-the-loops
You must have thought me kin
To nincompoops
The silly way I acted

ARMSTRONG:
Of course you wouldn't know
That you were so aglow
And I was so attracted
FITZGERALD:
But baby, take a bow
My heart is going Oops! right now

(Instrumental Break - Trumpet Solo)

FITZGERALD:
Pops, you are the tops
The moment that my eyes 
Behold your chops
You lift me to the skies
My heart flip-flops
You shouldn't make it make like that

ARMSTRONG:
Ummmm, and my buxom belle
I'm still in love with you
'Cause truth to tell
I always kind of knew 
That we would gel
'Cause jam could never shake like that

FITZGERALD:
I was going for a frantic
But completely unromantic
Sort of drive
But I knew you wouldn't quit
When I dug you when you hit 
Me with that old time jive
ARMSTRONG: Sing it Ella

EF: And Oops!, my heart went Oops!
LA: Sittin' on the stoops, the local droops
EF: They nearly flipped their toops, I mean in groups
LA: The silly way we acted
EF: Of course they couldn't know that you were so aglow
LA: I was so attracted
BOTH: 
Yes, baby, take a bow
My heart and soul went Oops!
EF: Oops!   LA: Oops!   EF: Oops!   LA: Oops!
BOTH: Right now
EF: Oops!   LA: Oops!, dear






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2012)