IF YOU TURN ME DOWN (DEE-OWN-DOWN-DOWN)
(DeRose / Sigman)


Peggy Lee (with the Benny Goodman Sextet) - 1951

Also recorded by: Dinah Shore; Toni Arden.


If you turn me down-dee-own-down-down
I'll go off to Missouri
And I'll find me a mule, a mule with great big ears
To tell my troubles to

If you turn me down-dee-own-down-down
I'll go up to Alaska
And I'll build me a hut, a hut with frozen tears
The tears I cry for you

Don't intend to stay and be tortured
If you're tired of my embrace
I'll take my mem'ries to some far off place

If you turn me down-dee-own-down-down
I'll go up on a mountain
And I'll pray and I'll pray till you send that message through
To say you love me true
Then I'll come runnin' on down-down-down-down-dee-own to you

(Orchestral Break)

Don't intend to stay and be tortured
If you're tired of my embrace
I'll take my mem'ries to some far off place

If you turn me down-dee-own-down-down
I'll go up on a mountain
And I'll pray and I'll pray till you send that message through
To say you love me true
Then I'll come runnin' on down-down-dee-own-down-down-down-down-
down-dee-own, that's low!







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2011)