GOTTA GET SOME SHUTEYE
(Walter Donaldson (m) Johnny Mercer (l) )

as recorded by Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
(vocal - Martha Tilton)
February 7th 1939 (radio transcription)


You folks wanna go out to a movie;
I've seen the movies all over town!
You folks wanna go out to a party;
Have a nice party
I'll run along and be a smarty!

Gotta get some shuteye,
Give the world the go-by,
Got an awful lot of dreamin' to do!
Gotta get some shuteye
Where the kisses flow by,
Got an awful lot of dreams to come true!

Gonna let that sandman
Sprinkle me with stars,
Only hope that old lamplighter
Lets me hold my baby tighter!

So I'm goin' bye-bye,
Gonna get some shuteye,
Got an awful lot of dreamin' to do!

Gonna let that sandman
Sprinkle me with stars,
Only hope that old lamplighter
Lets me hold my baby tighter!

So I'm goin' bye-bye,
Get myself some shuteye,
Got an awful lot of dreamin' to do!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2015)