YOURS SINCERELY (Soundtrack)
Songs from the film "Yours Sincerely" (1933)
(Based on the 1930 Broadway show "Spring Is Here")
Starring Lanny Ross, Nancy Welford, Richard Keene & Pearl Osgood
SPRING IS HERE (IN PERSON)
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Richard Keene
Spring is here in person
How does it look for tonight
Let your Pa and Ma do the cursin'
It's Spring in person that makes it bright
We can knock each care down
So let's be happy for spite
And let's be letting our hair down
How does it look for tonight
Spring is here in person
How does it look for tonight
Let your Pa and Ma do the cursin'
It's Spring in person that makes it bright
We'll make light as a feather
So let's be happy for spite
And let's be getting together
How does it look for tonight
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WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
Music by Harry Warren / Lyrics by Sam Lewis & Joe Young
Performed by Nancy Welford and Richard Keene
NANCY:
I'm sick and tired of having you around me (RICHARD: Uh-huh)
Hanging all around me night and day
Most anywhere I go, you're bound to hound me
How you love to hound me....Go away!
RICHARD:
But there's something that I want to say to you
NANCY:
Well say it, hurry up and get it through (RICHARD: All right)
RICHARD:
Put your head up higher
Put your two lips here
Make me feel on fire
NANCY:
What's the big idea?
RICHARD:
With the big Moon blazing
And this atmosphere
Oh, I get too darn brazen
NANCY:
What's the big idea?
RICHARD:
Well, just start the party, smarty
And then, then I'll produce
I don't mean maybe, baby
I'm on the loose
RICHARD:
I'm just wild and woolly
Like a Texas steer
NANCY:
Now isn't that just bully (RICHARD: Yes)
What's the big idea? (RICHARD: Ooh)
NANCY:
What's your proposition?
Buzz it in my ear
(Richard whispers into Nancy's ear)
NANCY:
What's the big idea?
NANCY:
What's your occupation?
RICHARD:
Uuh, I'm an engineer
NANCY:
You just passed your station
What's the big idea?
NANCY:
You're engineering something without a plan
The way you use your hands, you are a travelling man
Get a reputation, don't you anchor here
Take a long vacation (TIGER'S HEAD: What's the big idea?)
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YOURS SINCERELY
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Lanny Ross and Nancy Welford
NANCY:
Yours sincerely
The one who loves you dearly
To think about it nearly takes my breath away
Very truly
My passion is unruly
A dream of you is newly born each night and day
LANNY:
Oh, but my thoughts are fervent
How can I make them plain
Ever your humble servant
Faithfully I remain
I'm intending
To find a happy ending
Because I love you dearly
I'm sincerely yours
Yours sincerely
The one who loves you dearly
To think about it nearly takes my breath away
Very truly
My passion is unruly
A thought of you is newly born each night and day
Oh, but my thoughts are fervent
How can I make them plain
Ever your humble servant
Faithfully I remain
I'm intending
To find a happy ending
BOTH:
Because I love you dearly
I'm sincerely yours
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RICH MAN, POOR MAN
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Richard Keene and Pearl Osgood
RICHARD:
I have often heard my father say
Boy, you're a comer
You'll be a president someday
PEARL:
He meant a plumber
RICHARD:
My hopes are remarkable
I'll rise in this town
PEARL:
Rest that thing that's parkable
Sit down, clown
RICHARD:
Bigger fools that I have made their way
PEARL:
They don't come dumber
But I care, so why care, don't frown
PEARL:
Rich man, poor man
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, who cares
You're gonna darken my doorstep
RICHARD:
Doctor, lawyer
Doctor, lawyer, ?????? chief who swears
I'm gonna follow in your step
PEARL:
You may be a hero to some
RICHARD:
Or like Mister Zero, a bum
Pardon my language
PEARL:
Rich man, poor man
Rich man, poor man, certainly you can see
BOTH:
You'll be a lover to me
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BABY'S AWAKE NOW
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Pearl Osgood
Baby's awake now
Baby can do things
Ready to shake her chassis
Baby has new springs
Baby can learn how
Baby can dance rings
Round ev'ry other lassie
Baby can do things
Her deportment isn't ??????
Mammy gave you wandering ????, child
Beat on the big drums
She's making her bow
Burn up the baby's cradle
Baby's awake now
Burn up the baby's cradle
Baby's awake now
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WITH A SONG IN MY HEART
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Lanny Ross and Nancy Welford
LANNY:
Though I know that we meet ev'ry night
And we couldn't have changed since the last time
To my joy and delight
It's a new kind of love at first sight
Though it's you and it's I all the time
Ev'ry meeting's a marvellous pastime
You're increasingly sweet
So whenever we happen to meet
I greet you .....
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells
I'm touching your hand
It tells that your're standing near, and
At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens its portals to me
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you
NANCY:
With a song in my heart for you
RICHARD:
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you
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YOURS SINCERELY (FINALE)
Music by Richard Rodgers / Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Lanny Ross, Nancy Welford, Richard Keene,
Pearl Osgood, Dudley Clements and Janet Velie
LANNY:
Yours sincerely
We've just been married
DUDLEY:
Really? Two millionaires
JANET:
Really takes my breath away
RICHARD:
Say, he has no money
DUDLEY:
Who's tryng to be funny?
LANNY:
That's on the level
NANCY:
Honey, careful what you say
JANET:
And now that you've wed my daughter
PEARL:
What are you going to do?
DUDLEY:
Just how will you support her
LANNY
We'll come and live with you
RICHARD:
Let's be merry
For that's unnecessary
You can live with us
ALL (Except Richard):
Oh, Terry
We're sincerely pleased
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All songs transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2008)
