I'm A Poached Egg 1964 Gershwin JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21Apr2014
2014

Way back in Noah's Ark
when couples came to park
it is stated
they were fated
to be truly mated.
And so I dreamed a dream
like them we'd be a team,
the tightest twosome
hist'ry could reveal;
but the way you act of late
has made me feel that:

I'm a poached egg
without a piece of toast,
Yorkshire pudding
without a beef to roast,
I'm a haunted house
that hasn't got a ghost
when I'm without you.
I'm a mousetrap
without a piece of cheese,
I'm Vienna
without the Viennese,
I'm Da Vinci
without the Mona Lis'
I'm skies without blue.
When you don't hang around
I'm a kangaroo
without a hop.
When will you show me
that as Romeo
I'm not a flop?
I'm a western
without a hitching post,
I'm a network
without a coast to coast,
just a poached egg
without a piece of toast
each time I'm without you.

I'm Las Vegas
without a slot machine
I'm a gypsy
without a tambourine,
I'm Napoleon
without a Josephine
when I'm without you.
I'm a letter
without the right address,
I'm a sandwich
with only water cress
I'm a tenant
the kind they dispossess,
I'm bill without coo.
There comes a time
I don't know if I'm I
or a wrestling match.
The way you treat me
soon they'll greet me
at the booby hatch.
I'm a lawyer
who never won a case,
I'm a missile
that can't get into Space,
just a poached egg
with egg
upon its face,
each time I'm without you.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I'm A Poached Egg 1964 Gershwin JPitt-Payne
words & music by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
© 1964 Gershwin Publishing Corp. previously Chappell & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 21 April 2014 at 19.32
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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