I'M A'TINGLE, I'M A'GLOW

 from 1949 New York musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 
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(Jule Styne (m) Leo Robin (l) 1949)


George S Irving (original cast)
with Orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock


I don't smoke,
Never touch a drink,
But I'm sturdy as an oak
And I'm always in the pink!

I leap out of bed at the crack of dawn,
As graceful as an elk, as nimble as a fawn!
The life I lead would gladden
The heart of Bernard McFadden!

>From head to toe,
I'm alive, I'm a'tingle, I'm a'glow!
With the red corpuscles
Dancing through my muscles,
I'm so full of pep I overflow!

And I owe it all to roughage, he-he!
Rough, rough, rough, rough roughage!
I know the door to paradise
Is outdoor exercise;
In rain or snow,
I'm alive, I'm a'tingle, I'm a'glow!

I start my day with a bowl of bran,
And the whole day through I'm a happy man!
I laugh at care and woe,
I'm alive, I'm a'tingle, I'm a'glow!

(That's just wonderful, Mister Gage!  Marvellous!)

I know full well
How Samson fell
Into Delilah's power,
So when I start to lose my heart,
I just take a nice ice-cold shower!

I'm no Romeo,
I'm alive, I'm a'tingle, I'm a'glow,
I'm alive, I'm a'tingle, I'm a'glow!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - November 2013)