BYE, BYE, BIRDIE (Soundtrack)






Songs from the film "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963)
Music by Charles Strouse / Lyrics by Lee Adams
Starring Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell, 
Jesse Pearson, Paul Lynde, Mary LaRoche and Maureen Stapleton






















BYE, BYE, BIRDIE (Opening Titles)
Performed by Ann-Margret & Female Chorus


Bye, bye, Birdie
I'm gonna miss you so
Bye, bye, Birdie
Why'd ya have to go (Bye,bye)


No more sunshine (Sunshine)
It's followed you away (You away)
I'll cry, Birdie (Birdie)
Till you're home to stay (Home to stay)


I'll miss the way you smile
As though it's just for me
And each and ev'ry night
I'll write to you faithfully


Bye, bye, Birdie,
It's awful hard to bear
Bye, bye, Birdie
Guess I'll always care
Guess I'll always ca-a-a-a-are 
Guess I'll always care!




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WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD
Performed by Female Chorus




We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes, we do
We love you, Conrad
And we'll be true
When you're not near us
We're blue
Oh, Conrad, we love you


We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes, we do
We love you, Conrad
And we'll be true
When you're not near us
We're blue
Oh, Conrad, we love you




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THE TELEPHONE HOUR
Performed by Male & Female Chorus


Hi, Nancy!
Hi, Ursula!
What's the story, morning glory?
What's tale, nightingale?
Tell me quick about Hugo and Kim!
Hi, Margie!
Hi, Alice!
What's the story, morning glory?
What's the word, humming bird?
Have you heard about Hugo and Kim?
Did they really get pinned?
Did she kiss him and cry?
Did he pin the pin on?
Or was he too shy?
Well, I heard they got pinned
Yeah! Yeah! 
I was hopin' they would!
Uh-huh!
Now they're livin' at last, 
Goin' steady for good!
Hello, Mister Henkel, this is Harvey Johnson,
Can I talk to Penelope Ann?
Is it true about Kim?
Penelope!
I just knew it somehow
About the Prom...
I must call her right up!
Saturday
I can't talk to you now!


Goin' steady 
You know it, man!
Goin' steady 
It's crazy, man!
Goin' steady 
You know it
It won't last!
Not at all!
He's too thin!
She's too tall!
Hello, Missus Miller, this is Harvey Johnson,
Can I speak to Debra Sue?
Hiya, Hugo!
Hiya, stupid!
What ya wanna go get pinned for?
You don't know how to live
Oh, you meathead
You'd get pinned if you could
Lost your marbles
Kim and I are in love
Are you nutty 
Goin' steady for...
Hello, Mrs Garfein, is Charity home from school yet?


Did they really get pinned? 
Goin' steady?
We was hopin' they would
He's gone
Now they're livin' at last 
She nailed him
If you gotta go, that's the way to go,
When they got you hooked,
Then you're really cooked
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?
Well, I heard they got pinned
Oh, man!
I was thinking they would
Oh, man!
Now they're livin' at last
Goin' steady for good
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, steady for good
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, steady for good
He's in love with Kim
Kim's in love with him!
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady!
That's the way it should be!
Oh yeah!
They'll be happy, I know!
Oh yeah!
Goin' steady for me
Oh yeah!
That's the way it should go
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, steady for good
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, steady for good
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, goin' steady
Goin' steady, goin' steady for...
Goin' steady!
Oooooooh Yeah!!!




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HOW LOVELY TO BE A WOMAN
Performed by Ann-Margret 




When you're a skinny child of fifteen
Wired with braces from ear to ear
You doubt that you will ever be appealing
Then Hallelujah! You are sixteen
And the braces disappear
And your skin is smooth and clear
And you have that happy grown-up female feeling


How lovely to be a woman
The wait was well worthwhile
How lovely to wear mascara
And smile a woman's smile


How lovely to have a figure
That's round instead of flat
Whenever you hear boys whistle
You're what they're whistling at


It's wonderful to feel
The way a woman feels
It gives you such a glow just to know
You're wearing lipstick and heels


How lovely to be a woman
And have one job to do
To pick out a boy and train him
And then when you are through
You've made him the man you want him to be
How lovely to be a woman like me


How wonderful to know
The things a woman knows
How marvelous to wait for a date
In simply beautiful clothes


How lovely to be a woman
And change from boys to men
To go to a fancy nightclub
And stay out after ten
How lovely to be so grown-up and free
Life's lovely when you're a woman like me!




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WE LOVE YOU, CONRAD (Reprise)
Performed by Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell & Chorus




GIRLS:
We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes we do
We love you, Conrad
And we'll be true
When you're not near us, we're blue
Oh, Conrad, we love you!


BOYS:
We hate you, Conrad
Oh, yes we do
We don't hate anyone
As much as you
Your singing makes us say "P.U."
Oh, Conrad, we hate you


GIRLS:
We love you, Conrad
Oh, yes we do
BOYS:
We don't hate anyone
As much as you
GIRLS:
When you're not near us, we're blue
Oh, Conrad
BOYS:
Oh, Conrad
GIRLS: We love you / BOYS: We hate you




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HONESTLY SINCERE
Performed by Jesse Pearson
 


You gotta be sincere
You gotta be sincere
You gotta feel it here
'Cause if you feel it here
Well, then you're gonna be honestly sincere


If what you feel is true
You really feel it, you
Make them feel it too
Write this down, now
You gotta be sincere
Honestly sincere
Man, you gottta to be sincere


If you're really sincere
If you're really sincere
If you feel it in here
Then it's gotta be right
Oh, baby! 
Oh, honey!
Hug me! 
Ah, Suffer!


In ev'rything I do
Why, my sincerity shows through
Yeah, I look you in the eye
I don't even have to try
It's automatic
I'm sincere


When I sing about a tree
I really feel that tree
Yeah, when I sing about a girl
I really feel that girl
I mean I really feel sincere


Why, If you're really sincere
If you're really sincere
If you feel it in here
Then it's gotta be right
Oh, baby! 
Oh, honey!
Hug me! 
Ah Suffer!


Yeah, here we go now!


Why, you gotta be sincere
Oh, oh, you gotta feel it here
Oh, my baby, oh, my baby, oh yeah!
Oh, my baby, oh yeah!


Go girl, go!


Are you gonna be sincere
Are you gonna be sincere
(Yeah!)
Are you gonna be sincere
Are you gonna be sincere
(Yeah!)
Are you gonna be sincere
Are you gonna be sincere
(Yeah!)
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah!
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah!
Are you gonna be sincere
Are you gonna be sincere
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah!
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah!
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah!
Oh, my baby
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah....YEAH!




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HYMN FOR A SUNDAY EVENING
Performed by Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Mary LaRoche & Bryan Russell




PAUL:
Me on the Ed Sullivan show?
Ed Sullivan
Me, Harry McAfee appearing with 
Ed Sullivan
PAUL & MARY:
E-e-e-e-ed, Ed Sullivan
PAUL, MARY & ANN MARGRET:
E-e-e-e-ed, Ed Sullivan
ALL:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ed Sullivan
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ed Sullivan
Ed, Ed, Sull, Sull
Ed Sullivan, Ed Sullivan
We're gonna be on Ed Sullivan
MARY & ANN-MARGRET:
How could any family be
Half as fortunate as we
ALL:
We'll be coast to coast
With our fav'rite host
Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan, Ed Sullivan
We're gonna be on Ed Sullivan 
PAUL:
I've got a wonderful wife
Two swell kids
A good business 
And now this!
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
ALL:
Someday we'll recall
The greatest day of all
PAUL:
Ed, I love you!
ALL:
Ed Sullivan!




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ONE BOY
Performed by Ann-Margret, Bobby Rydell & Janet Leigh




ANN-MARGRET:
One boy
One special boy
One boy to go with
To talk with
And walk with
One boy
That's the way it should be
BOBBY (Spoken): 
Yeah, yeah!
That's the way it should be


ANN-MARGRET:
One boy
One certain boy
One boy to laugh with
To joke with
Have Coke with
One boy
Not two or three


One day you'll find out
This is what life is all about
You need someone who
Is living just for you


BOBBY:
One boy
One steady boy
One boy to be with
Forever and ever
One boy
That's the way it should be
BOTH:
That's the way it should be


(Dialogue)


ANN-MARGRET:
One day you'll find out
This is what life is all about
BOBBY:
You need someone who
Is living just for you


BOTH:
One boy
One steady boy
One boy to be with
Forever and ever
One boy
That's the way it should be
That's the way it should be


(Dialogue)


JANET:
When will he find out
This is what life is all about
Will he ever see
I need him and he needs me


JANET:
One boy
ANN-MARGRET:
One special boy
JANET:
One special boy
ANN-MARGRET:
One boy to be with always forever
JANET:
One boy to be with forever and ever
ANN-MARGRET:
I love him
JANET:
One boy
ANN-MARGRET:
Love him, I love him so
JANET:
That's the way it should be
ANN-MARGRET:
That's the way it should be
JANET:
That's the way it should be




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PUT ON A HAPPY FACE
Performed by Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh




DICK:
Why look so awf'ly tragic
Put on a happy face
Smiling can work like magic
Put on a happy face
Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy
It's not your style
You look so good that you'll be glad
You decided to smile


Pick out a pleasant outlook
Stick out that noble chin
Wipe off the full of doubt look
Slap on a happy grin
And spread sunshine all over the place
Just put on a happy face


Flowers?
Put on a happy face
Put on a happy face


Why do you mope around so sourly
It's such a strain
I always try to chuckle hourly
It clears the brain


JANET:
I knew a girl so gloomy
She'd never laugh or sing
She wouldn't listen to me
Now she's a mean old thing


DICK:
So spread sunshine all over the place
Put on a happy...


(Dance Routine)


BOTH:
So put on a happy face




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KIDS
Performed by 
Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton, Dick Van Dyke & Bryan Russell




PAUL:
Kids! 
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy, loafers!
And while we're on the subject
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way
What's the matter with kids today?


MAUREEN:
Kids!
I've tried to raise you the best I could
Kids!
All the things I've done were for your own good
Kids!
Can't you once appreciate how I've sacrificed
Working, slaving, scrimping, saving pennies
And livin' with your Father
Kids!
No one knows the burdens I've had to bear, and in my condition
Kids!
I'm a poor sick woman and does he care?
Ha! Go on, go on and kill me
That's what it's coming to
When a mother has kids like you!


PAUL: Kids!
MAUREEN: All the chicken soup that I made for you
DICK (Spoken): Mama, take it easy
PAUL: Kids!
MAUREEN: Now you throw mw out like a worn-out shoe
DICK (Spoken): Not in front of ev'rybody, Mom
DICK: After all, I haven't been such an awful son
I never sass you back or leave a ring around the bathtub
And don't I always phone you
MAUREEN: Kids! You can give your life to 'em night and day
PAUL: Kids! Then they go get married
MAUREEN (Spoken): MARRIED!
PAUL: And go away
DICK & Bryan (Spoken): Who's gettin' married?
MAUREEN & PAUL: Why do we have these children?
PAUL: Better to have a pet
(PAUL (Spoken): You know where you stand with a pet
MAUREEN: I never asked for nothin'
PAUL: Nothin' is what you'll get
MAUREEN & PAUL: What's the matter with kids to...
MAUREEN (Spoken): I tried, Lou, but I failed.
DICK (Spoken): Oh, you didn't, Mama, you didn't.
MAUREEN (Spoken): Don't try to pay me back, Sonny. I forgive ya.
So what if you're an ingrate? So long as you're happy.
DICK (Spoken): I don't wanna be happy.
MAUREEN (Spoken): Don't feel guilty. 
Just make believe I'm an old used car.
Junk me. Leave me in the gutter.
DICK (Spoken): I'll never leave ya, never!
MAUREEN (Spoken): You heard him. You're a witness.
DICK (Spoken): I promise, Mama.
I never broke a promise to my Mama.
PAUL (Spoken): Good boy!
MAUREEN & PAUL: Why can't they be like Albert?
DICK: Perfect in every way
BRYAN (Spoken): What's the matter with kids?
DICK (Spoken): Yeah, what's the matter with kids?
ALL: Nothing's the matter with kids today!




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ONE LAST KISS
Performed by Jesse Pearson




Oh, one last kiss
Give me one last kiss
It never felt like this
No, baby, not like this
You know I need your love
Oh-Oh-Oh! 
Give me one last kiss
One last kiss


Mmm, baby, one more time
It really is sublime
Ah baby, so sublime
You know I need your love
Oh-Oh-Oh!
Give me one last kiss
One last kiss


Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-by, gi-i-ive me one last kiss
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-by, gi-i-ive me one last kiss


Oooh, one last kiss
Give me one last kiss
It never felt like this
Nah, baby, not like this
You know I need your love
Oh-Oh-Oh!




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A LOT OF LIVING TO DO
Performed by Jesse Pearson, Ann-Margret & Bobby Rydell




JESSE:
There are chicks just ripe for some kissin'
And I mean to kiss me a few
Man, those chicks don't know what they're missin'
I got a lot o' living to do


Sizzlin' steaks all ready for tastin'
And there's Cadillacs all shiny and new
Gotta move, 'cause time is a-wastin'
I got a lot o' livin' to do


There's music to play
Places to go, people to see 
Ever'thing for you and me


Life's a ball, if only you know it
And it's all just waitin' for you
You're alive, so come on and show it
Yeah, we got a got a lot o' livin' to do


ANN-MARGRET:
There are men with childhood behind them
Handsome men from Yale or Purdue
Older men and I'm gonna find 'em
I got a lot o' livin' to do


I-I-I'm a-gonna have fun
Gonna be wild, have my own way
I may break a heart a day


Drink Champagne as if it were water
Pink Champagne and after a few
Daddy dear, you won't know your daughter
She's got a lot o' livin' to do


BOBBY:
Think I'll be a ring-a-ding drummer
Make each week a thousand or two
Gorgeous girls will beg for my number
Hey, I've got a lot of livin' to do


Yes, I'm gonna break out
Gonna take off, gonna be free
This town is awfully square for a cat like me


Or I'll be a super jet pilot
Fly me high way out in the blue
Then they'll see I'm no shrinkin' violet
Hey, I've got a lot of livin' to do


(Dance Routine)


JESSE: I got a lot o' livin' to do


(Dance Routine)


JESSE: There's music to play, places to go
ANN-MARGRET: People to see
BOBBY: Ah, everything for you and me


JESSE: 
Life's a ball, if only you know it
Yeah, and it's all just waitin' for you
Ah, you're alive, so come on and show it
Yeah, we got a lot o' livin' 
Such a lot o' livin'
Tonight's the night we're gonna fly
Let's kick this hick town into high
I want a taste of ever'thing
Let's live it up and really swing
Got a lot of livin' livin' 
Livin' livin' livin' to do
LIVE!




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ROSIE
Performed by Janet Leigh




Ev'rything is Rosie
Cha, cha, cha
'Cause my name is Rosie
Fi-fi-fi, huh!




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ONE LAST KISS (Reprise)
Performed by Jesse Pearson




Oh, one last kiss
Give me one last kiss
It never felt like this
Nah, baby, not like this
You know I need your love
Oh-Oh-Oh!
Give me one last kiss
One last kiss


Oh, one more time
Mmm, baby, one more time
It really is sublime
Ah, honey, so sublime
Oh-Oh-Oh!
Give me one last kiss
One last kiss


Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-by
Gi-i-i-ve me one last kiss
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-by
Gi-i-i-ve me one las...




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ROSIE
Performed by Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Ann-Margret & Bobby Rydell




DICK:
Everything is Rosie
Since I found my Rosie
JANET (Spoken): Same old words
DICK: With a girl like Rosie
BOTH: How could I be blue
JANET (Spoken): Same eight bars. Now what?
DICK:
Hand in hand we'll mosey
Me and little Rosie
We will be so cozy
By a fire built for two
JANET (Spoken): Oh, Albert, you're too much
DICK:
Oh, I once heard a poem that goes
A rose is a rose is a rose
But I don't agree, take it from me
There's one rose sweeter than any that grows
And that's my Rosie
I'm so glad she chose me
Life is one sweet, beautiful song to me


ANN-MARGRET:
Everything is Hugo
I will go where you'll go
With a boy like Hugo
How could I be blue


BOBBY:
We will be so cozy
Just like Al and Rosie
BOTH:
But we're gonna mosey
In a hot rod built for two


DICK: And that's my Rosie
JANET: Gee, how delighted we'll be
DICK: I'm so glad she chose me
JANET: When you are cozy with me
BOTH: 
Life is one sweet, beautiful song
When love is right, then what could be wrong
Life is one sweet, beautiful song to me




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BYE, BYE, BIRDIE (Finale)
Performed by Ann-Margret




Bye, bye, Birdie
The Army's got you now
I'll try, Birdie
To forget some how


No more sighing
Each time you move those lips
No more dying
When you twich those hips


Your swivel and your sway
Your super-duper class 
There's nothing left to say
But Conrad, you're a gas


Bye, bye, Birdie 
Ta-ta, ol' sweetie-pie
Bye, bye, Birdie
Time for me to fly
Time for me to fly
Time to say goodbye
Bye now!




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All songs transcribed and/or verified by Mel Priddle - Oct 2008)




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