I'M FOR YOU A HUNDRED PER CENT
(James Dyrenforth / Billy Rose / Carroll Gibbons)


Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - 1931
Smith Ballew - 1931
Ted Weems & His Orch. (vocal: Parker Gibbs) - 1931
Savoy Hotel Orpheans (vocal: Jack Plant) - 1932
Roy Fox & His Band (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1932
Savoy Hotel Orpheans (vocal: Frances Day) - 1932



I'm for you a hundred per cent
In a million ways
I'll be true a hundred per cent
And that's a lot these days

Let it be a shanty or tent
Bungalow or barn
Be with me a hundred per cent
And I don't give a darn

String along, string along, baby
And everything will come our way
String along, string along, baby
Just love me and the world's okay

I'll come through a hundred per cent
On the day you say you're mine
I'm for you a hundred per cent
And I don't mean ninety-nine


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As recorded by FRANCES DAY
with Carroll Gibbons' Savoy Hotel Orpheans:

To say I love him madly
Would be expressing it badly
Delicious one
What have you done to me

To say I love him mildly
Would be expressing it wildly
And so, to sing his praises
I keep digging up new phrases

I'm for him a hundred per cent
In a million ways
Be for me a hundred per cent
And that's a lot these days

I don't mind a shanty or tent
Bungalow or barn
Be for me a hundred per cent
And that's a lot today

String along, string along, baby
And everything will come our way
String along, string along, baby
Just love me and the world's okay

I'll come through a hundred per cent
On the day you're mine
Be for me a hundred per cent
Now, make up your sweet mind

String along, string along, baby
And everything will come our way
String along, string along, baby
Just love me, love me and the world's okay

Don't mean ninety-nine!



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2018)