CHLOE - aka CHLOE (SONG OF THE SWAMP)
(Gus Kahn / Neil Moret)

Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Austin Young) - 1928
Fats Waller - 1928
Benny Goodman & His Orch. - 1937
Duke Ellington & His Orch. - 1940
John Kirby & His Orch. - 1940
Spike Jones & His City Slickers (vocal: Red Ingle) - (featured in
the film "Bring On The Girls) - 1945
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1945
Louis Armstrong - 1953
The Everly Brothers - 1961


Also recorded by: Adelaide Hall; Dinah Shore;
Henry "Red" Allen; Hal McIntyre; Daniel Block;
American Jazz Orch.; Mickey Baker; Eddie Bert;
Nat Adderley; Bessie Brown; Sonny Thompson;
Valaida Snow; Fred Waring: ....... and others.


Chloe! Chloe!

Someone's calling, no reply
Nightshade's falling, hear him sigh

Chloe! Chloe!

Empty spaces in his eyes
Empty arms outstretched, he's crying

Through the black of night
I've got to go where you are
If it's dark or bright
I've got to go where you are

I'll go through the dismal swampland
Searching for you
For if you are lost there
Let me be there, too

Through the smoke and flame
I've got to go where you are
For no ways can be too far
Where you are

Ain' no chains can bind you
If you live, I'll find you
Love is calling me
I've got to go where you are


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As recorded by Spike Jones & His City Slickers:


Chloe! Chloe!
Someone’s callin’

(Rrrrring-rrrring, rrrring-rrrring)
Hello. You don’t say. Hm, Hm You don’t say
You don’t say. (Who was it?)
He didn’t say.

No reply.
Night shades fallin’ (kerrrash)
Hear him sigh (Hhhhhh!)

Chloe! Where are ya yo’old bat!
Empty faces meet his eyes
Empty arms outstretched, he’s cryin’

Through the black of night, I’ve got to go where you are
(Whether it’s near or whether it’s far
I wanna be thar wherever you are)
If it’s wrong or right, I got to go where you are
(Hello Chloe, what do ya knowy
I just got back from a vaudeville showy)
I roamed through the dismal swamplands
Searching for you
For it’s you I lost there, let me be there too
(Three, four, Halt)
And through that smoke and flame
I’ve got to go where you are
(Thunder and lightning, shower and snow,
When I get the call, I gotta go)
For no place can be too far, where you are,
Ain’t no chains can bind you
And if you live, I’ll find you
Love is callin’ me, I got to go where you are

(Sort of Orchestral Break)

Aiiiiin’t no chains can bind you,
And, and if you live, ha ha, I’m gonna find you my pretty baby
(POP)
Love is callin’ me,

Rrrring-rrrring
Hello, you don’t say, you don’t say.
(Who was it?)
Same Guy!

I’ve got to go where you are.


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)