LET'S BE BUDDIES
From the Broadway show "Panama Hattie" (1940)
(Cole Porter)

Ethel Merman & Joan Carroll (Broadway Production) - 1940
Connee Boswell - 1940
Bea Wain - 1940
Les Brown & His Orch. (vocal: Doris Day) - 1940
Flanagan and Allen - 1941
Ann Sothern, Jackie Horner, Virginia O'Brien,
Alan Mowbray (feat. in the film "Panama Hattie") - 1942

Also recorded by: Buddy Clarke; Al Cohn; George Masso.


HATTIE (Ethel Merman): I get awful gloomy
JERRY (Joan Carroll): You mean, ver gloomy
HATTIE:
Very gloomy, now and then, in this town
'Cause it's always so hard
To find a real pard
Who'll play in your yard
When you're down
But since the talk, you and me
I mean, you and I have had
I've got a good friend, I see
JERRY: Well, I'm not so very bad

HATTIE:
What say, let's be buddies
What say, let's be pals
What say, let's be buddies
And keep up each other's morales
I may never shout it
But many's the time I'm blue
What say, how's about it
Can't I be a buddy to you?

SPOKEN:
JERRY: Yes, with certain reservations
HATTIE: Will you try your best to go for this moll?
JERRY: Hattie, what are you talking about?
HATTIE: If you do, I'll buy a new dress for your doll
JERRY: But please let me pick it out
HATTIE: And I'll take you to hear the big cathedral bells
JERRY: Oh, I hate those noisy old chimes
HATTIE: Well, instead then we'll go to see Gone With The Wind
JERRY: But I've already seen it four times
HATTIE: Would you like a big box of chocolate creams?
JERRY: No, for candy I never did care
HATTIE: Then will you let me get you a cute little dog?
JERRY: Would you mind making it a bear?
HATTIE: Say, Jerry, old kid, you're a tough proposition
Are you sure your lid is in a healthy condition?
Are you feelin' good, Jerry?
JERRY: What me? Why, very.
HATTIE: Well, whether you are or not.....

If you're on the town
If you're on your own
Well, I'm sort of down
And sick of being alone
Do you ever spend your evenings with the blues?
'Cause if you do my friend
We're both in the same shoes


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As recorded by Les Brown & Doris Day:


What say, let's be buddies
What say, let's be pals
What say, let's be buddies
And keep up each others morale
I may never shout it
But many's the time I'm blue
What say, hows about it
Can I be a buddy to you


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)


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