I'LL TAKE AN OPTION ON YOU
>From the Broadway Show "Tattle Tales" (1933)
(Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger)


Ted Fio Rito & His Orch. (vocal: Muzzy Marcellino) - 1932
Frank Fay & Betty Doree (Broadway Production) - 1933

Also recorded by: 
Dorothy Lamour; Roy Bargy & Peggy Healy.





I'd like to make a proposition, dear
But not the kind that you suspicion, dear
I'm so afraid of competition, dear
I'll take an option on you

You came along so unobtrusively
And set me raving so effusively
I want your services exclusively
I'll take an option on you

Oh Gee! I can foresee 
A wonderful future for me
I'm sold a hundred percent
Let's make it permanent

I wish that I could make you sign for life
As partners we could both combine for life
But still you say that you'll be mine for life
I'll take an option on you


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2013)


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Alternate verse as recorded by DOROTHY LAMOUR:

I know it would be great with me
If every day you had a date with me
And so to show the way you rate with me
I'll take an option on you






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2013)