(MY HEART IS) HIGHER THAN A HAWK


(Sammy Fain (m) / Paul Francis Webster (l) )


As sung by Howard Keel 1953 < Calamity Jane > (original film soundtrack)


My heart is higher than a hawk

My love is deeper than a well

I'm thinkin' in a little while

My love and I'll be doin' very well.


An owl is givin' me the eye

The wind is blowin' me a kiss

I wouldn't be at all surprised

If I were only dreamin' all of this.


And when I strut about like a Sunny Jim

Dressed in yeller and red

Folks'll shout, "Take a look at him, he's tetched in the head."


I said that I would never fall

I laughed at others when they fell

And here I'm falling, higher than a hawk

And deeper than a well.


And when we're all rigged out like a birthday cake

Eyes'll pop everywhere.

Folks'll shout, "Don't you think they make a wonderful pair?"


I said that I would never fall

But if you promise not to tell

My love for you is higher than a hawk

And deeper than a well.


NOTES


This song formed part of the soundtrack for the 1953 Warner Bros film

< Calamity Jane >.


Several stage, screen and TV renditions of < Calamity Jane >  have been

made over the years, based on this colourful American woman from the old

wild West. Calamity, who distinguished herself by scouting and fighting

Native American Indians, also claimed to have know Wild Bill Hickok

personally. Not only that, she always maintained that she was married to

him and produced a child from the union. On her death, she was buried

beside him. Perhaps the most notable of all these adaptations to date is

in fact, the 1953 film. This film was created by Warner Bros. in response

to the success of < Annie Get Your Gun > (1950).


Director: David Butler

Leads: Doris Day / Howard Keel / Allyn Ann McLerie / Philip Carey


Howard Keel, an American, was a talented singer, film, TV and Broadway

actor. He appeared in a number of well-known musicals such as < Oklahoma >,

< My Fair Lady >, < Showboat > and < Kiss Me Kate > . He is probably

best known more recently playing the roll of Clayton Farlow in < Dallas >.




(Transcribed by David Story- April 2014)