KISS ME KATE (Soundtrack)
Songs from the 1953 MGM Musical "Kiss Me Kate"
Starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall,
Bobby Van, Bob Fosse, Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore.
All songs originally written by Cole Porter for the Broadway show
of "Kiss Me Kate" in 1948, with the exception of "From This Moment On"
which was written by Porter for his 1950 musical "Out Of This World",
but not used in the final production.
SO IN LOVE
Performed by Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel
KEEL:
Strange dear, but true, dear
When I'm close to you, dear
The stars fill the sky
So in love with you am I
BOTH:
Even without you
My arms fold about you
GRAYSON:
You know, darling, why
So in love with you am I
KEEL:
In love with the night mysterious
The night when you first were there
GRAYSON:
In love with my joy delirious
When I knew that you could care
KEEL: So taunt me and hurt me
GRAYSON: Deceive me, desert me
BOTH: I'm yours 'til I die
KG: So in love
HK: So in love
KG: So in love
HK: So in love
KG: So in love with you, my love
HK: So in love
BOTH: Am I
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TOO DARN HOT
Performed by ANN MILLER:
Okay, go, boys, go
(Go, girl, go!)
It's too darn hot
It's too darn hot
I'd like to sup with my baby tonight
Refill the cup with my baby tonight (Crazy, man!)
I'd like to sup with my baby tonight
Refill the cup with my baby tonight
But I ain't to for my baby tonight
'Cause it's too darn hot (Yeah!)
It's too darn hot
It's too darn hot
I'd like to coo with my baby tonight
And pitch the woo with my baby tonight, um-hum
I'd like to coo with my baby tonight
And pitch the woo with my baby tonight
But, sister, you fight my baby tonight
'Cause it's too darn hot (It's too darn hot!)
Accoding to the latest report
Every average girl you know
Much prefers her lovey-dovey to court
When the temperature is low
But when the thermometer goes way up
And the weather is sizzlin' hot
Mr. Adam, for his madam, is not
'Cause it's too, too, too darn hot (Too darn, too darn hot)
It's too darn hot (Too darn, too darn hot)
It's too darn hot
(Dance Sequence)
(Make me know it!)
(Go, girl, go!)
(Too darn hot, it's too darn hot)
(It's too darn hot)
(Co-o-o-l!)
(Dance Sequence)
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KISS ME KATE (Rehearsal)
Performed by Ensemble Cast
So kiss me, Kate, darling devil divine
For now she shall ever be mine, all mine
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WHY CAN'T YOU BEHAVE
Performed by Ann Miller
Why can't you behave?
Oh, why can't you behave?
After all the things you told me,
And the promises that you gave,
Oh, why can't you behave?
Oh, why can't you be good?
And do just as you should?
Won't you turn that new leaf over,
So your baby can be your slave?
Oh, why can't you behave?
There's a farm I know near my old home town,
Where we two could go and try settlin' down.
There I'll care for you forever,
'Cause you're all in the world I crave.
But why can't you behave?
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WUNDERBAR
Performed by Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel
BOTH: Wunderbar, wunderbar
KG: There's our fav'rite star above
HK: What a bright, shining star
BOTH: Like our love, it's wunderbar
HK: Gazing down on the Jungfrau
KG: From our secret chalet for two
HK: Let us drink, liebchen mein
KG: In the moonlight benign
BOTH: To the joy of our dream come true
BOTH: Wunderbar, wunderbar!
HK: What a perfect night for love
KG: Here am I, here you are
HK: Why it's truly wunderbar
BOTH: Wunderbar, wunderbar
HK: We're alone and hand in glove
BOTH: Not a cloud near or far,
HK: Why, it's more than wunderbar!
KG: Say you care, dear
HK: For you madly
KG: Say you long, dear
HK: For your kiss
KG: Do you swear, dear
HK: Darling, gladly
KG: Life's divine, dear
HK: And you're mine, dear
BOTH: Wunderbar, wunderbar!
HK: There's our fav'rite star above.
KG: What a bright, shining star,
BOTH: Like our love, it's wunderbar-ah-hah-hah!
(Dance Sequence)
HK;
Wunderbar, wunderbar
What a perfect night for love
Haere am I, here you are
BOTH: Why it's truly wunderbar
KG:
Wunderbar, wunderbar
There's our fav'rite star above
BOTH:
What a bright, shining star
Like our love, it's wunderbar
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SO IN LOVE (Reprise)
Performed by Kathryn Grayson
So taunt me and hurt me
Deceive me, desert me
I'm yours 'til I die
So in love
So in love
So in love with you, my love, am I
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WE OPEN IN VENICE
Performed by Kathryn Grayson,
Howard Keel, Ann Miller and Tommy Rall
A troup of strolling players are we
Shakespearean portrayers are we
We're just a simple band
Who roams about the land
Dispensing fol-de-rol frivolity
We're folk who give distractions are we
No theatre guild attraction are we
We're just a crazy group
That never seems to troup
Around the map of little Italy
We open in Venice
We next play Verona
Then on to Cremona
Got some laughs in Cremona!
Our next stop is Parma
That stingy, dingy menace
Then Madua, then Padua
Then we open again, where?
We open in Venice
We next play Verona
Then on to Cremona
Lotsa quail in Cremona!
Our next stop is Parma
That artless, heartless menace
Then Madua, then Padua
Then we open again, where?
In Venice!
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TOM, DICK OR HARRY
Performed by Ann Miller, Tommy Rall,
Bobby Van and Bob Fosse
FOSSE:
I've made a haul in all the leading rackets
>From which rip-roarin' rich I happen to be
And if thou wouldst attain the upper brackets
Marry me, marry me, marry me
RALL:
My purse has yet to know a silver lining
Still lifeless in my wifeless family tree
But if for love unending thou art pining
Marry me, marry me, marry me
VAN:
I come to thee a thoroughbred patrician
Still spraying my decaying family tree
To give a social lift to thy position
Marry me, marry me, marry me
Marry me!
FOSSE & RALL: Marry me!
VAN: Marry me!
FOSSE & RALL: Marry me!
VAN: Marry me!
FOSSE: Marry me!
RALL: Marry me!
MILLER:
I'm a maid who would marry
And will take with no qualm
Any Tom, Dick or Harry
Any Harry, Dick or Tom
I'm a maid mad to marry
And will take double-quick
Any Tom, Dick or Harry
Any Tom, Harry or Dick
FOSSE: I'm the man thou shouldst marry
MILLER: Howdy, Pop!
FOSSE: Howdy, Mom
RALL: I'm the man thou shouldst marry
MILLER: Art thou Harry, Dick or Tom?
VAN: I'm the man thou shouldst marry
MILLER: Howdy, pal!
VAN: Howdy, chick!
MILLER: Art thou Tom, Dick or Harry?
ALL: Call me Tom, Harry or Dick
ALL:
I'm (She's) a maid who would marry
And would no longer tarry
I'm (She's) a maid who would marry
May my hopes not miscarry!
I'm (She's) a maid mad marry
And will take double-quick
MILLER:
Any Tom, Dick or Harry
Any Tom, Harry or Dick
ALL:
A-dicka-dick, a-dicka-dick, a-dicka-dick
A-dicka-dick, a-dicka-dick, a-dicka-dick
A-dicka-dick, a-dicka-dick
(Dance Sequence)
MILLER:
Any Tom, Dick or Harry
Any Tom, Harry or Dick
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I'VE COME TO WIVE IT WEALTHILY IN PADUA
Performed by Howard Keel and Ensemble
KEEL:
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
If wealthily, then happily in Padua
If my wife has a bag of gold
Do I care if the bag be old
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
ENSEMBLE:
He's come to wive it wealthily in Padua.
KEEL:
I heard you mutter, "Zounds, a loathsome lad you are"
I shall not be disturbed one bit
If she be but a quarter-wit
If she only can talk of clo'es
While she powders her doggone nose
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
ENSEMBLE:
He's come to wive it wealthily in Padua.
KEEL:
I heard you say, "Gadzooks, completely mad you are!"
'Twouldn't give me the slightest shock
If her knees now and then should knock
If her eyes were a wee bit crossed
Were she wearing the hair she'd lost
Still the damsel I'll make my dame
In a brawl they are all the same
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
ENSEMBLE:
He's come to wive it wealthily in Padua
KEEL:
I heard you say, "Good gad, but what a cad you are!"
Do I mind if she fret and fuss
If she fume like Vesuvius
If she roar like a winter breeze
On the rough Adriatic seas
If she screams like a teething brat
If she scratch like a tiger cat
If she fight like a raging boar
I have oft met a boar before
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
ENSEMBLE:
With a hunny, nunny, nunny, and a hey, hey, hey
KEEL:
Not to mention money, money for a rainy day
KEEL & ENSEMBLE:
I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua
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I HATE MEN
Performed by Kathryn Grayson
I hate men!
I can't abide them, even now and then!
Than ever marry one of them I'd rest a maiden rather,
For husbands are a boring lot and only give you bother!
Of course I'm awfully glad that mother deigned to marry father!
But I hate men!
Of all the types I've ever met within our democracy,
I hate the most the athlete with his manner bold and brassy!
He may have hair upon his chest, but sister, so has Lassie!
Oh, I hate men!
I hate men!
They should be kept like piggies in a pen!
Don't wear a travelling salesman, though a tempting Tom he may be,
For on your wedding night he may be off to far Araby!
While he's away in Mandalay, 'tis thee who'll have the baby!
Oh, I hate men!
If thou should'st wed a businessman, be wary, oh, be wary
He'll tell you he's detained in town on business necessary
His business is the business with his pretty secretary
Oh, I hate men!
I hate men!
Though roosters they, I will not play the hen
If you espouse an older man through girlish optimism,
He'll always stay at home at night and make no criticism;
Though you may call it love, the doctors call it rheumatism!
Oh, I hate men!
>From all I've read alone in bed from A to Zed about them,
Since love is blind, then from the mind all womankind should rout them!
But ladies, you must answer too, what would we do without them?
Still I hate men!
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WERE THINE THAT SPECIAL FACE
Performed by Howard Keel
Of all the men alive
I never yet beheld that special face
Which I could fancy more than any other
Were thine that special face
The face which fills my dreaming
Were thine the rhythmed grace
Were thine the form so lithe and slender
Were thine the arms, so warm, so tender
Were thine the kiss divine
Were thine the love for me
The love which fills my dreaming
When all these charms are thine
Then you'll be mine, all mine
Were thine the love for me
The love which fills my dreaming
When all these charms are thine
Then you'll be mine, all mine
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KISS ME KATE
Performed by the Chorus:
So kiss me, Kate, darling angel divine
For now she shall ever be mine, all mine
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I'VE COME TO WIVE IT WEALTHILY IN PADUA (Reprise)
Performed by Howard keel
I came and wived it wealthily in Padua
Yes, thankfully and happily in Padua
My wife has a bag of gold
And the bag isn't very old
I came and wived it wealthily in Padua
In Padua, in Padua, in Padua, in Padua
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WHERE IS THE LIFE THAT LATE I LED
Performed by Howard Keel
When at first aware of masculinity
I began to finger feminine curls
I became the toast of my vicinity
For I always had a multitude of girls
But now that a married man, at last, am I
How aware of my dear, departed past am I
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead!
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind!
A married life is just a pain
And raising an heir could never compare
With raising a bit of Cain
So I repeat what first I said,
Where is the life that late I.......hah-hah-hah-hah
In dear Milano, where are you, Momo?
Still selling those pictures of the Scriptures in the Duomo
And, Carolina, where are you, Lina?
Still peddling your pizza in the streets o' Taormina
And in Firenze, where are you, Alice?
Still there in your pretty, itty-bitty Pitti Palace
And sweet Lucretia, so young and gay-ee
What scandalous doin's in the ruins of Pompeii
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead!
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind!
The marriage game is quite all right
Yes, during the day it's easy to play
But, oh, what a bore at night
So I repeat what first I said
Where is the life that late I.......
Where is Rebecca, my Becki-weckio
Could still she be cruising that amusing Ponte Vecchio
Where is Fedora, the wild virago
It's lucky I missed her gangster sister from Chicago
Where is Venetia, who loved to chat so
Could still she be drinking in her stinking pink palazzo
And lovely Lisa, where are you, Lisa?
You gave a new meaning to the leaning tower of Pisa
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead!
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind!
I've oft been told of nuptial bliss
But what d'ya do a quarter-to-two
With only a shrew to kiss
So I repeat what first I said
Where is the life that late I led?
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I HATE MEN (Reprise)
Performed by Kathryn Grayson
I hate men!
I can't abide them, even now and then!
Of course I'm awfully glad that mother deigned to marry father!
But I hate men!
Of all the types I've ever met within our democracy,
I hate the most the athlete with his manner bold and brassy!
He may have hair upon his chest, but sister, so has Lassie!
Oh, I hate men!
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WERE THINE THAT SPECIAL FACE
Performed by The Chorus (unseen)
Were thine that special face
The face which fills my dreaming
Were thine the rhythmed grace
Were thine the form so lithe and slender
Were thine the arms, so warm, so tender
Were thine the kiss divine
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WHY CAN'T YOU BEHAVE (Reprise) / ALWAYS TRUE TO YOU IN MY FASHION
RALL:
Why can't you behave?
Oh, why can't you behave?
MILLER:
Tell me how can you be jealous
When you know, baby, I'm your slave
I'm just mad for you and I'll always be
But naturally..........
MILLER:
When a custom tailored vet asks me out for somethin' wet
When the vet begins to pet. I shout, "Hooray!"
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
RALL:
There's a lush from Baltimore who is rich, but such a bore
MILLER:
When the bore falls on the floor, I let him lay
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
RALL:
Waht about that Mister Thorn, calls you up from night till morn
MILLER:
Mister Thorn once cornered corn and that ain't hay, hah-hah-hah!
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
RALL:
Saw you out with Mister Fritz, you were dining at the Ritz
MILLER:
Mister Fritz invented Schlitz and Schlitz must pay
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
MILLER: I could never curl my lip at a dazzling diamond clip
RALL: S'pose the clip means let 'er rip
MILLER: I'd not say, "Nay"
RALL: Yeah, I know, oh, you're always true to me, darlin', in your fashion
MILLER: Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
RALL:
Mister Harris Plutocratz wants to give yout cheek a pat
MILLER:
If a Harris pat means a Paris hat, bay-bee, oh, lah-lah, mais je suis, toujours petit, darling, in my fashion
J'ai, je suis, toujours petit, darling, in my way
MILLER: Mister Gable
RALL: You mean Clark?
MILLER:
Wants me on his boat to park
If the Gable boat means a sable coat
RALL: I know, anchors away!
MILLER:
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way
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BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
Performed by Keenan Wynn & James Whitmore
The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry
So to win their hearts you must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The Bard of Stratford on Avon
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella"
And they'll think you're a heck of a fella
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer
And if still to be shocked she pretends well
Just remind her that "All's Well That Ends Well"
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow
(Dance Sequence)
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
If your girl is a Washington Heights dream
Treat the kid to "A Midsummer's Night Dream"
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing
What are clothes? "Much Ado About Nussing"
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the "Coriolanus"
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow
And they'll all kow-tow - Thinkst thou?
And they'll all kow-tow - I trou'
And they'll all kowtow
(Dialogue)
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow
(Dance Sequence)
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow!
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FROM THIS MOMENT ON
Performed by Ann Miller, Tommy Rall, Bobby Van and Bob Fosse
RALL:
>From this moment on
You for me dear
MILLER:
Only two for tea dear
RALL:
>From this moment on
RALL:
>From this happy day
No more blue songs
MILLER:
Only hoop-de-doo songs
RALL:
>From this moment on
VAN: For you've got the love I need so much
FOSSE: Got the skin I love to touch
VAN: Got the arms to hold me tight
BOTH: Got the sweet lips to kiss me goodnight
RALL:
>From this moment on
You and I babe
We'll be ridin' high babe
Every care is gone
>From this moment on
(Dance Sequence)
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KISS ME KATE
Performed by Howard Keel and Ensemble
KEEL:
So, kiss me, Kate, and quite surprise
'Ere we start living in paradise
ALL:
So kiss me, Kate, darling angel divine
KEEL:
Come, Kate, and we'll to bed
Hah-hah-hah-hah, a pox upon the life that late I led
ALL:
For now I shall ever be thine, all thine
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All songs transcribed and/or verified by Mel Priddle - March 2013)
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(Contributed by Mel Priddle - March 2013)
