HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF GIRLS
(Ray Rasch / Dotty Wayne)

as recorded by Nat "King" Cole
with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
1960


[spoken]
When did you first discover love,
That wonderful moment when the world takes on a new and beautiful glow?
Your senses whirl, your heart stops, your pulse stops, and life begins!
And all because you're a guy and there are girls!
(Girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls!)
Girls!
[sung]
There are hundreds and thousands of girls in the world,
How's a guy gonna choose?
There are shy girls,
There are fun girls,
There are girls who can give you the blues.

There are hundreds and thousands of girls everywhere,
And wherever I go,
There are smiling
And beguiling;
It's confusing,
But I like it so!

On the street cars,
In the drive ins,
On the hayride there are girls.
At the picnic,
In the phone booth,
At the racetrack there are girls.
In the valley,
In the mountains,
By the seashore there are girls.
They're so hard to resist,
Every one of them oughta be kissed!

There are hundreds and thousands of girls in the world,
I'm so glad I'm a guy!
Sweet as wine girls,
Valentine girls,
And I can't give them up if I try!
There are hundreds and thousands of girls in the world,
And I love them all till I die!
There are hundreds and thousands of girls in the world,
And I love them all till I die!





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2014)