SAM AND DELILAH
From the Broadway show "Girl Crazy" (1930)
(George & Ira Gershwin)


Ethel Merman (Broadway Production) - 1930
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orch. (vocal: Chick Bullock) - 1931
Lee Wiley - 1939
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. (feat. in the film "Girl Crazy") - 1943
Louise Carlyle - 1951
Ella Fitzgerald (with Nelson Riddle & His Orch.) - 1959
Klea Blackhurst - 2004

Also recorded by: Debbie Gravitte



As recorded by LEE WILEY:


Delilah was a floozy
She never gave a damn
Delilah wasn't choosy
Till she fell for a swell buckaroo
By the name of Sam

Delilah got in action
Delilah did her kootch
She gave him satisfaction
And he fell 'neath her spell
With the aid of love and hootch

But one day, so they tell us
His true wife he did crave
Delilah, she got jealous
And she tracked him and hacked him
And dug for Sam a grave

But it's always that way with passion
So cowboy, learn to behave
Or else you're liable to cash in
With no tombstone at your grave

Delilah, oh Delilah
She's no babe in the wood
Run, cowboy, run a mile
If you love that kind of woman
She'll do you no good

If you love that kind of woman
She'll do you no good







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2011)