I NEED SOME COOLING OFF

(Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)


As recorded by:
Kit-Cat Band, Dir. Al Starita
V. Al Starita
Recorded 31st May 1927

Also recorded by:
Dorothy Louden
The Savoy Orpheans



I need some cooling off
How I need cooling off
Can’t stop my feet from going to burn up
I know I’ll go insane
No white man knows that strain
My toes get hot whenever they’re turned up
Hot coffee,
You’ll find it’s never time to retire
I’m shoutin’ now my temperature’s higher, 
Fire,
I’ll hear that music crash
Until I burn to ash
Oh how I need some cooling off.




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - January 2014)