DELILAH JONES
(Sylvia Fine / Elmer Bernstein)

as recorded by The McGuire Sisters
1956


Delilah was a high flyin' floozie,
Delilah needed seventeen phones.
Don't phone her, there isn't any more Delilah,
Delilah Jones!

Delilah Jones,
Delilah Jones,
Her story is bad,
The ending was bad,
Delilah Jones.

Delilah, Delilah!
She let a no good guy beguile her.
Delilah, weep for Delilah,
The devil got a lease on her bones!

Just a trumpet playin' bum from Biloxi,
Delilah nicely gives him the frost!
But Sammy, he blew some crazy notes,
And whammy, Delilah's lost!

Delilah's lost, (Delilah was lost)
Delilah was lost, (Delilah was lost)
The fiery doll
Turned into a moll
That he double crossed!

Delilah, Delilah!
She let a no good guy beguile her.
Delilah, Delilah!
Delilah was completely lost!

That Sammy hocked her car and chauffeur,
He robbed her of her sparklin' stones,
Then he left her when all the dough was gone,
He dropped her, Delilah Jones!

Delilah Jones, (Delilah Jones)
Delilah Jones, (Delilah Jones)
She filled him with lead
Until he was dead
And out of her bones!

Delilah, Delilah!
She let a no good guy beguile her.
Delilah, weep for Delilah,
From gallows number two
She got her final due!
Delilah, Delilah, Delilah, (Delilah),
Delilah Jones!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - August 2017)