I'M IN LOVE WITH THE HONOURABLE MR. SO-AND-SO
From the film "Society Lawyer" (1939)
(Sam Coslow)


Virginia Bruce (Film Soundtrack) - 1939
Artie Shaw & His Orch. (vocal: Helen Forrest) - 1939
Jeri Southern (with the Dave Barbour Trio) - 1954
Teddi King - 1956
Susannah Young - 1967

Also recorded by:
Joan Crawford; Frances Langford; Abbe Lane; Sue Raney;
Marian McPartland; Andrej Hermlin & His Swing Dance Orch.





I'm in love with the honourable Mr. So-And-So
I can't mention his name with propriet'ry
He's a pillar of Gotham society
And the newspaper columnists all would love to know
I'm in love with the honourable Mr. So-And-So

He goes out with a fashionable Lady So-And-So
While they dine and they dance in a swell room
I must wait in a stuffy hotel room
For the moments so rare, but convenient for him to spare
He gets terribly annoyed if he doesn't find me there

Why must I be living in a back street
Just so he can hide me
I long to shout it from the housetops
Instead of keeping it all inside me

There are so many fascinating places I could go
Invitations galore I get nightly
"Awfully sorry", I tell them politely
I'm in love with the honourable Mr. So-And-So






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2013)