I MET A GIRL
From the Broadway Show "Bells Are Ringing" (1956)
(Jule Styne / Betty Comden / Adolph Green)

Sydney Chaplin (Broadway Production) - 1956
Dean Martin (Film Soundtrack) - 1960
Marc Kudisch (Broadway Revival) – 2001


Yoo-hoo! I met a girl, a wonderful girl
She's really got a lot to recommend her for a girl
Fabulous creature without any doubt
Hey! What am I getting so excited about?

She's just a girl, an ev'ry day girl
And yet I guess she's really rather special for a girl
For once you have seen her the others are out
Hey! What am I getting so excited about?

But so what, what has she got others have not?
Two eyes, two lips, a nose, all girls have some of those
But when she looks up at me, what do I see?
The most enchanting face, my pulse begins to race

Hey! I met a girl, a marvellous girl
She's rarer than uranium and fairer than a pearl
Found me a treasure and I want to shout
Hey! What am I getting so excited about?

But so what, what has she got others have not?
Two eyes, two lips, a nose, all girls have some of those
But when she looks up at me, what do I see?
The most enchanting face, my pulse begins to race

Hey! (He met a girl, a marvellous girl)
(She's rarer than uranium and fairer than a pearl)
Found me a treasure and I want to shout
This is what I'm getting so excited about
I met a girl and I fell in love today


(Contributed by Ferda Dolunay - February 2006)