Could You Use Me? 1930 'Girl Crazy'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Mar 2005

[Danny:] Have some pity on an Easterner;
show a little sympathy;
no one possibly could be sterner
than you have been with me.
There's a job that I'm applying for,
let me put it to you thus:
It's a partnership I'm dying for
Mister and Missis Us!
Before you file it on the shelf
let me tell you of myself.

Oh,

I'm the chappie,
to make you happy.
I'll tie your shoesies
and chase your bluesies;
Oh, lady, would you,
Oh, tell me could you use me?
I'd shake the mat out
and put the cat out;
I'd clean the garret
and feed the parrot,
Oh, lady, would you,
Oh, tell me, could you use me?
Do you realize what a good man
you're getting in me?
I'm no Elk or Mason or Woodman,
who gets home at three.
The girls who see me
grow soft and dreamy
but I'm a gander who won't philander,
Oh, could you use me?
Cause I certainly could use you!

[Ginger:] For you're no cowboy;
you're soft and how! boy!
I feel no muscle,
that's fit for tussle.
I must refuse you;
I cannot use you
[Danny:] 'Scuse me!
[Ginger:] No night life for you;
the birds would bore you,
the cows won't know you,
a horse would throw you;
you silly man, you, to ask me:
"Can you use me?"
Though at love you may be a wizard,
I'm wanting to know,
Could you warm me up
in a blizzard, say, forty below?
Your ties are freakish;
your knees look weakish,
go back to flappers and highball lappers!
Though you can use me,
I most certainly can't use you!

[Ginger:] There's a chap I know in Mexico,
who's as strong as he can be;
eating nails and drinking Texaco
he is the type for me.
There is one in California
more romantic far than you.
When he sings "HaChaChaChornia
I often think he'll do.
But as for you, sir,
I'm afraid you will never make the grade.

For, you're no cowboy;
you're soft and how! boy!
I feel no muscle,
that's fit for tussle.
I must refuse you;
I cannot use you
[Danny:] 'Scuse me!
[Ginger:] No night life for you;
the birds would bore you,
the cows won't know you,
a horse would throw you;
you silly man, you, to ask me:
"Can you use me?"
Though at love you may be a wizard,
I'm wanting to know,
Could you warm me up
in a blizzard, say, forty below?
Your ties are freakish;
your knees look weakish,
go back to flappers and highball lappers!
Though you can use me,
I most certainly can't use you!

[Danny:] Oh,

I'm the chappie,
to make you happy.
I'll tie your shoesies
and chase your bluesies;
Oh, lady, would you,
Oh, tell me could you use me?
I'd shake the mat out
and put the cat out;
I'd clean the garret
and feed the parrot,
Oh, lady, would you,
Oh, tell me, could you use me?
Do you realize what a good man
you're getting in me?
I'm no Elk or Mason or Woodman,
who gets home at three.
The girls who see me
grow soft and dreamy
but I'm a gander who won't philander,
Oh, could you use me?
Cause I certainly could use you!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Could You Use Me? 1930 Gershwin
from "Girl Crazy"
Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
© 1930 by WB Music Corp.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 25 March 2005 at 23.08
in association with Doug Grierson
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