WAKE UP AND LIVE

Harry Revel (m) Mack Gordon (l)   1937

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald & Charles Linton w Chick Webb & his Orch  
March 23rd 1937

also rec by-
Red Nichols & his Orch '37
Alice Faye '37
Edith Wright w Tommy Dorsey & his Orch '37
Jack Harris & his Orch
The Hudson / De Lange Orch


Wake up and live, don't mind the rainy patter,
And you will find it's mind over matter!
Dark clouds will break up
If you will wake up and live. (scat)

Wake up and live, show the stock you're made of,
Just follow through, what are you afraid of?
Why don't you wake up and live?
Why don't you wake up and live? (scat)

Come out of your shell, hey fella,
Find your place in the sun;
Come out of your shell, say fella,
Just be a go-gettin' son of a gun!

Wake up and live, it may be love is yawning,
Up on your toes, a better day is dawning!
Don't let up, get up and give,
Give yourself a shakeup just to wake up and live!

Come out of your shell, hey fella,
Find your place in the sun;
Come out of your shell, say fella,
Just be a go-gettin' son of a gun!

Wake up and live, it may be love is yawning,
Up on your toes, a better day is dawning!
Don't let up, get up and give,
If Lady Love is yawning
And a better day is dawning,
Won't you get up mister, wake up and live!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - September 2009)