STARLIFT (Soundtrack)


Songs featured in the film "Starlift" (1951)
Starring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Ruth Roman, 
James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Randolph Scott and Jane Wyman.











YOU'RE GONNA LOSE YOUR GAL
(Music: James Monaco / Lyrics: Joe Young)

Performed by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae

BOTH:
You're gonna lose your gal
You're gonna lose your gal
DORIS: You're actin' like a two-timin' lover 
GORDON: Keepin' kisses undercover
BOTH:
You'll wake up and soon discover
You're gonna lose your gal

DORIS: You're gonna fret away
GORDON; You're gonna fret away
DORIS: You're bound to get that way
GORDON: You're bound to get that way
DORIS: Ooh, how can you be so conceited
GORDON: Take her heart and then you mistreat it
BOTH:
You can't have your cake and eat it
You're gonna lose your gal

DORIS:  And when she's gone
GORDON: And when she's gone
DORIS: She won't come back
GORDON: She won't come back, they don't come back
DORIS: Won't come back
BOTH: Once they're gone

DORIS: You're gonna be surprised
GORDON: You're gonna be surprised
DORIS: You never realised
GORDON: You never realised
DORIS: That someone else can treat her nicer
GORDON:  Someone else can shoes and rice her
BOTH:
Someone else will paradise her
You're gonna lose your gal

DORIS:  And when she's gone
GORDON: When she's gone
DORIS: She won't come back
GORDON: She won't come back, they don't come back
DORIS: Won't come back
BOTH: Once they're gone

DORIS: You're gonna find someday
GORDON: The gal went thataway
DORIS: Now you forgot to analyse her
GORDON: With you love you minimise her
BOTH: 
Tomorrow you'll be sad, but wiser
You're gonna lose your gal
DORIS: You're gonna lose
GORDON: You're gonna lose
DORIS: You're gonna lose
GORDON: You're gonna lose
BOTH: You're gonna lose your gal



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'S WONDERFUL
(Music: George Gershwin / Lyrics: Ira Gershwin)

Performed by Doris Day


'S wonderful 
'S marvellous
You should care for me
'S awful nice
'S paradise
'S what I love to see

You've made my life so glamorous
You can't blame me for feeling amorous
Oh, 's wonderful
'S marvellous
That you should care for me

My dear, it's four leaf clover time
>From now on my heart's working overtime
Oh, 's wonderful
It's so marvellous
That you should care for me

Wonderful, marvellous, glorious, it's glamorous
That you should care for me



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YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES
(Music: Dana Suesse / Lyrics: Edward Heyman)

Performed by Doris Day


You, you, you, you oughta be in pictures
You’re wonderful to see, 
You oughta be in pictures, 
Oh what a hit you would be!
 
Your voice would thrill a nation, 
Your face would be adored, 
You’d make a great sensation 
with wealth and fame your reward
 
And if you should kiss the way you kiss, 
When we are all alone, 
You’d make ev’ry girl and man 
A fan worshiping at your throne.
 
You oughta shine as brightly 
As Jupiter and Mars; 
You oughta be in pictures 
My star of stars



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YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME
(Written by Cole Porter)

Performed by Doris Day


'Cause you do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You have the power to hypnotize me

Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
For you do something to me
That nobody else could do
That nobody else could do



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WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
(Written by Cole Porter)

Performed by Lucille Norman and Gordon MacRae


LUCILLE:
What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
GORDON:
Just who can solve its mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
LUCILLE:
I saw you there one wonderful day
GORDON:
You took my heart and threw it away
BOTH:
That's why I ask the Lord in Heaven above
What is this thing called love?

(Dance Routine: GENE NELSON & JANICE RULE)

LUCILLE:
I'm glad I saw you there one wonderful day
GORDON:
You took my heart and threw it away
BOTH:
That's why I ask the Lord in Heaven above
What is this thing called love?



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LIZA (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
(Music: George Gershwin / Lyrics: Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn)

Performed by Patrice Wymore


Listen to my story 'bout a gal named
Liza, Liza, skies are grey
But if you smile on me, all the clouds will roll away
Liza, Liza, don’t delay
Come keep me company, and the clouds will roll away

See the honey moon is shining down
We should make a date with Parson Brown
So Liza, Liza, name the day
When you belong to me, and the clouds will roll away



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THE GOOD GREEN ACRES OF HOME
(Music: Sammy Fain / Lyrics: Irving Kahal)

Performed by Gordon MacRae and Men's Chorus


Let me stand with the grip of the plough in my hand
On the good green acres of home, my land
Where a friend is treasured and your wealth is measured
By the strength of heart and hand

Let me live (Let me live) with the sun and the wind and the rain
While I plant my acres with golden grain
Let me build my lovenest with a stick and stone
On the good green acres of home

Ev'rybody sing!
(Let me stand with the grip of the plough in my hand)
(On the good green acres of home, my land)
Where a friend is treasured and your wealth is measured
By the strength of heart and hand

(Let me live with the sun and the wind and the rain)
(While I plant my acres with golden grain)
Let me build my lovenest with a stick and stone
On the good green acres of home, my home
The good green acres of home



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IT'S MAGIC
(Music: Jule Styne / Lyrics: Sammy Cahn)

Performed by Gene Nelson and Vocal Group



GENE:
You know, things that I've done lately sure would frighten you
If you care to listen, I'll enlighten you
I'm sure Houdini and his crew
Couldn't do the things I do, see what I mean

I simply think of someone unobtainable
That's when things become so unexplainable
I merely turn my thoughts to her
And the miracles occur

When I recall her kiss
I suddenly go up like this
It's magic
Don't ask me why or how
I only know it's happening now
It's magic

And then those voices start to fill the air
I hear a melody and suddenly they're there

(And then) to chase the gloom
Her smile makes all the roses bloom
It's magic
I just remove my gloves
And suddenly they coo like doves
(It's magic)

Oh why, I ask myself, if I can do all the things that I do
Why can't I find a magic way or word to bring me you

(You, you, you, you're in trouble)
(You, you'll be seein' double)
(Don't! You won't like it) Oh! No
(You'll be sorry) She's a doll

(You sigh, the song begins)
(You speak and I hear violins play)
(It's magic)
(The stars desert the skies)
(And rush to nestle in your eyes)
(It's magic)

(Without a golden wand or mystic charms)
(Fantastic things begin when I am in your arms)

(Why do I tell me myself these things that happen are all really true)
When in my heart I know the magic is my love for you


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I MAY BE WRONG, BUT I THINK YOU'RE WONDERFUL
(Music: Henry Sullivan / Lyrics: Harry Ruskin)

Performed by Jane Wyman


I may be wrong, but I think you're wonderful
I may be wrong, but I think you're swell
I like your style, say, I think it's marvellous
I'm always wrong, so how can I tell

All of my hats are unsightly
All of my shoes are a crime
If, dear, in you I picked rightly
It's the very first time

You came along, say, I think you're wonderful
I think you're grand, but I may be wrong

I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful
I may be wrong but I think you're swell
I like your style, say, I think it's marvellous
I'm always wrong so how can I tell

I wish I could trust my emotions
But sometimes I'm not very wise
I get the craziest notions
About the craziest guys

You're big and strong, oh, say, I think you're wonderful
I think you're grand, but I may be wrong

I've heard that all's fair in love and war
So must you be so polite
I may have been wrong many times before
But I'm oh so right tonight



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LOOK OUT STRANGER, I'M A TEXAS RANGER
(Written by Ruby Raksin & Phil Harris)

Performed by Phil Harris & Gary Cooper


HARRIS:
I was standin' in a barroom in a little Texas town
Drinkin' double sarsaparillas just to wash my dinner down
Folks were dancin' to the jukebox where a very fine quartet
And a guy named Harris sang a song called "Smoke That Cigarette"

While the music was still playin', somethin' shook the whole saloon
All the women started screamin' till I couldn't hear the tune
Then I looked up to the doorway and I saw him standin' there
It was Fearless Fred the foreman, dog dirty, loaded for bear

It was a year to the day since he had last been to town
And he showed it by the way he eyed the women up and down
Then he started in to cussin' all the folks up at the bar
Till a Ranger who was there cautioned Freddie to beware before he had gone too far
He said 

COOPER:
Look out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger
Better take it nice and easy or you'll have to go

HARRIS:
Well now Fred the foreman wasn't bright or he'd-a stopped right then
But he just ignored the Ranger and he started in again
He went down and grabbed Miss Lulu, the local dancehall queen
While the fellah who was with her was so scared he near turned green

Then the Ranger who was watchin' said that he had had enough
'Cause he'd been polite to Freddie, now it was time that he got tough
When a woman isn't willin' you can't grab her by the hair
You just don't do that and live when there's a Ranger standin' there
He said

COOPER:
Look out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger
Take your hands off that there woman or you'll make me mad

Then the Ranger turned to Lulu to make sure she was alright
Freddie saw his chance and hit the Ranger, "Wham!" with all his might
But the Ranger looked around and said  
COOPER:I think I felt a breeze
Meanwhile Freddie held his broken hand and felt quite ill at ease

COOPER: Here, look out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger
HARRIS: Then the Ranger swung at Freddie and all the lights went out

HARRIS:
When the lights went on again, some thievin' dog had stole my drink
And I swore out loud I'd like to get my hands upon that gink
When I looked around the only other person that I saw
Was the Ranger sippin' sarsaparilla calmly through a straw

Fearless Freddie rose up from the floor and drew his forty-five
When the smoke had cleared we found the Ranger smilin' and alive
It's a well known fact in Texas that a Ranger's skin is hard
COOPER:
Even bullets never hurt, it's like a built-in bodyguard

HARRIS:
So remember, stranger, if you meet a Texas Ranger
They're the roughest (Yeah!), toughest (Yeah!) gentlemen you ever saw
And gals, they're handsome critters, too!
COOPER: Yep!



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(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2014)