ANY PLACE I HANG MY HAT IS HOME
From the Broadway show "St. Louis Woman" (1946)
(Johnny Mercer / Harold Arlen)

Ruby Hill - 1946
Helen Merrill - 1954
Bobby Short - 1955
Judy Garland - 1956
Jimmie Rodgers - 1959
Dick Van Dyke - 1963
Barbra Streisand - 1963
Sammy Davis Jr - 1967
Johnny Mercer - 1974
Cleo Laine - 1976
Susannah McCorkle - 1977
Margaret Whiting - 1977
Chris Connor - 1978
Marlene Van Planck - 1978
Rosemary Clooney - 1987
Vanessa Williams - 1988
Jeanie Lambe - 1993
Maureen McGovern - 1996

Also recorded by: Jo Stafford; Dinah Shore; Lesley Uggams;
Jimmy Rushing; Dorothy Loudon; Audra McDonald; Lena Horne;
Sarah Partridge; Libby York; The Tonics; George Shearing;
Claire Martin; James Naughton: .............. and others.


Free and easy, that's my style
Howdy-do me, watch me smile
Fare-thee-well me after a while
'Cause I gotta roam
And any place I hang my hat is home

Sweetenin' water, cherry wine
Thank you kindly, suits me fine
Kansas City, Caroline
That's my honeycomb
'Cause any place I hang my hat is home

Birds roostin' in a tree
Pick up and go, and the goin' proves
That's how it oughta be
I pick up too when the spirit moves me
(I go where it behoves me**)
Cross the river, 'round the bend
"Hello stranger!", "So long friend!"
There's a voice in the lonesome wind 
That keeps whisp'ring, "Roam!"
I'm going where a welcome mat is
No matter where that is
'Cause any place I hang my hat is home

**Mercer ad-libs the line "I go where it behoves me" in 
his 1974 recording. It does not appear in other recordings.