I'm A Gigolo 1929 'Wake Up And Dream'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Nov 2005

I should like you all to know,
I'm a famous gigolo
and of lavender,
my nature's just got 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 with 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 blondes,
ev'ry twentyfifth 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 blondes,
ev'ry twentyfifth 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
Words
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lyric
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I'm A Gigolo 1929 Cole Porter
from"Wake Up And Dream" -  1929
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
© 1929 by WB Music Corp.
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sequence by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 26 November 2005 at 17.18
in association with Doug Grierson
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