WHEN I GET LOW I GET HIGH
Marion Sunshine

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald w Chick Webb & his Orch  
April 7th 1936 New York


My fur coat's old,
Oh Lord, ain't it cold!
But I'm not gonna holler
'Cause I still got a dollar,
And when I get low,
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I get high!

My man walked out,
Now you know that ain't right,
Well he'd better watch out
If I meet him tonight!
I said when I get low,
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I get high!

All this hard luck in this town has found me,
Nobody knows that trouble goes round and round me!

Oh-oh-oh-oh,
I'm all alone with no-one to bet me,
But ol' rockin' chair ain't never gonna get me,
'Cause when I get low,
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I get high!

When I get low,
Oh-oh-oh-oh, I get high!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - June 2010)