HIVE FULL OF HONEY
(Sammy Fain (m) / Paul Francis Webster (l) )


As sung by Dick Wesson 1953 CALAMITY JANE (original film soundtrack)


I've got two wonderful arms

I've got two wonderful lips

I'm over twenty one, and I'm free.

Oh, I've got a hive full o' honey

For the right kind of honey bee.


I'm not the glamorous type

But I'm the amorous type

You'll love the way I fit on your knee.

Oh, I've got a hive full o' honey

For the right kind of honey bee.


My daddy owns a railroad

And my ma is a millionaire

And besides I'm an only child

Do you think you could learn to care.


If you're the one I adore

Come on and get it before

Somebody shakes it down from the tree.

I've got a hive full o' honey

For the right kind of honey bee.


I got two wonderful arms

I got two wonderful lips

I'm over twenty one, and I'm free.

Oh, I've got a hive full o' honey

For the right kind of honey bee.


NOTES:


This song formed part of the soundtrack for the 1953 Warner Bros film

< Calamity Jane >.


Several stage, screen and TV renditions of  CALAMITY JANE  have been

made over the years, based on this colourful American woman from the old

wild West. Calamity, who distinguished herself by scouting and fighting

Native American Indians, also claimed to have know Wild Bill Hickok

personally. Not only that, she always maintained that she was married to

him and produced a child from the union. On her death, she was buried

beside him. Perhaps the most notable of all these adaptations to date is

in fact this 1953 film. It was created by Warner Brothers in response to

the success of < Annie Get Your Gun > (1950).


Director: David Butler

Leads: Doris Day / Howard Keel / Allyn Ann McLerie / Philip Carey


Doris Day is a highly popular and instantly recognizable American singer

and actress. She has made over 650 recordings and appeared in 39 films.

She has accumulated a litany of awards in her lifetime and is known for

her philanthropic pursuits.


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)