KEEPING COOL WITH COOLIDGE

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

Yvonne Adair & Full Company
(original cast)
with Orchestra conducted by by Milton Rosenstock


What is this?
Why kids, you're acting like a bunch of dying ducks!
Let's get with it!

Wake up, get hot,
Get the lead out of your you know what!
Let's show our president
We're glad he's the White House resident!

Step on the gas and step to a rhythm that's class A, hey-hey!
This is the way we're keepin' cool with Coolidge!
Be up to date and pass up a rhythm that's passe, hey-hey!
Wiggle and sway, we're keepin' cool with Coolidge!

Young folks, old folks, shake a leg,
Ev'rything is hotsy-totsy!
Even if they break a leg,
Who cares?
Mama loves jazz, papa loves jazz,
Razz-a-ma, razz-a-ma, razz-a-ma-tazz!

What a relief
You get when the rhythm has gotcha, hotcha!
Hail to the chief,
We're keepin' cool with Coolidge!
He's our pal,
We're keepin' cool with Cal!

Young folks, old folks, shake a leg,
It's the cat's meow, oh wow, and how!
Even if they break a leg,
Who cares?
Papa says "yes!", mama says "no!",
Vo-de--o, vo-de-o, vo-de-o-do!
Don't be a snoop,
Don't be a droop,
Boop-e-doop, boop-e-doop, boop-boop-e-doop!

Cal has got the country boomin',
Down on Wall Street, stocks are zoomin',
Still he's so darn unassumin'!
Ha-ha, hee-hee!
(scat)

What a relief you get when the rhythm has gotcha, hotcha!
Hail to the chief, hail to the chief!
He's our favourite son,
Hope that he'll run
In nineteen twenty eight,
'Cause he's great, great, great, hah!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - November 2013)