SHOULD I BE SWEET?
(Vincent Youmans (m) Buddy De Sylva (l) )

as recorded by Lee Wiley
with Stan Freeman & Cy Walter (pianos)
1951


Should I be sweet and sing of Spring and roses?
Should I be hot for a spot where the fields of cotton grow?
If I am sweet you may turn up your noses,
And if I'm hot you may think I know more than a maid should know!

I give you art and let's suppose you like it,
I win your heart and spoil it all with obliata-do-bop-bop!

So I repeat, should I sing sweetly, oh-oh-oh,
Or just get hot for a spot in the south and yell of it?
I do both just for the heck of it,
Should I be sweet or hot?  It's up to you!

So I repeat, should I sing sweetly, oh-oh-oh,
Or just get hot for a spot in the south and yell of it?
I do both just for the heck of it,
Should I be sweet or hot?  It's up to you!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - June 2015)