Disgustingly Rich 1940 'Higher and Higher'

Janmes Pitt-Payne, London UK - 08 Oct 2004

[Hilda:] Brenda Frazier sat on a wall.
Brenda Frazier had a big fall.
[All:] Brenda Frazier's falling down,
falling down, falling down.
Brenda Frazier's falling down,
[Lacky:] My fair Minnie!
[Sandy:] There's money in the movies,
there's money in the ads.
There's money in the old johns,
there's money in the lads.
Minnie, Minnie, Minnie, Minnie,
Money, Money, Money, Money,
Eeny, Meeny Money Mo.
Catch a fortune by the toe!

[Sandy:] I'll buy ev'rything
I wear at Sacks,
I'll cheat plenty on my income tax,
swear like a trouper,
live in a stupor,
just disgustingly rich!
I'll make money and I'll make it quick,
boosting cigarettes that make me sick,
smothered in sables like Betty Grable's
just disgustingly rich!
I will buy land down on Long Island,
and as a resident
I will pan the President,
I'll aspire Higher and Higher.
I'll get married and adopt a son.
Right from Tony's or from TwentyOne.
Swimming in highballs,
stewed to the eyeballs,
just disgustingly rich,
Too too disgustingly rich!

[Boy:] Break my ankles on the tennis courts,
get pneumonia doing winter sports.
[Hilde:] I won't be civil,
rude as the divil,
just disgustingly rich!
[Byng:] Ev'ry weekend
I will sail the sea
on my little yacht, The Normandie.
[Sandy:] Catch barracuda down in Bermuda,
Just disgustingly rich!
[Zack:] I'll eat salmon.
[Byng:] I'll play backgammon.
[Girl:] Turn breakfast into lunch.
[Whiffen:] I'll take Errol Flynn to lunch.
[Zack:] I'll aspire Higher and Higher.
[Byng:] I'll buy autos like the autocrats
[Zack:] I'll drink Pluto like the plutocrats.
[Sandy:] Playing the horses,
getting divorces.
[All:] Just disgustingly rich,
Too too disgustingly rich!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Disgustingly Rich 1940
from "Higher and Higher" - 1940
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Music by Richard Rodgers
© 1940 by Chappell & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 08 October 2004 at 19.02
in association with Doug Grierson
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