Gigolo 1929 Cole Porter

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6Jul2018
2018

I should like you all to know,
I'm a famous gigolo,
and of lavender,
my nature's got just a dash in it.
As I'm slightly undersexed,
you will always find me next
to some dowager who's wealthy,
rather than passionate.
Go to one of those night club places
and you'll find me stretching my braces,
pushing ladies who lifted faces 'round the floor.
But I must confess to you,
there are moments when I'm blue
and I ask myself whatever I do it for?

I'm a flower that blooms in the winter,
sinking deeper and deeper in "snow."
I'm a baby who has no mother but Jazz,
I'm a gigolo.
Ev'ry morning, when labor is over,
to my sweetscented lodgings I go.
Take the glass from the shelf,
and look at myself,
I'm a gigolo.
I get stocks and bonds from faded blonds,
ev'ry twenty fifth of December,
Still I'm just a pet that men forget
and only tailors remember.
Yet when I see the way all the ladies
treat their husbands who put up the dough,
you cannot think me odd,
if then, I thank God,
I'm a gigolo.

I'm a flower that blooms in the winter,
sinking deeper and deeper in "snow."
I'm a baby who has no mother but Jazz,
I'm a gigolo.
Ev'ry morning, when labor is over,
to my sweetscented lodgings I go.
Take the glass from the shelf,
and look at myself,
I'm a gigolo.
I get stocks and bonds from faded blonds,
ev'ry twenty fifth of December,
Still I'm just a pet that men forget
and only tailors remember.
Yet when I see the way all the ladies
treat their husbands who put up the dough,
you cannot think me odd,
if then, I thank God,
I'm a gigolo.

Soft karaoke
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Gigolo 1929 Cole Porter
Words & Music by Cole Porter
© MCMXXIX by Harms Inc. New York
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from "Wake Up And Dream!"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 6 July 2018 at 22.25
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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James Pitt-Payne