The Boyfriend Back Home 1929 'Fifty Million Frenchmen'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Sep 2005

If I didn't belong
to a nation where people
go from Poland to polo
in one generation,
then I might not slight
so many parlor pets
for my boy friend back home.
He's a coinfed collegiate from Yonkers
and yet he has the kind of persuasion
that goes out and conquers.
That is why that I am
placing all my bets
on the boyfriend back home.
Although I know a lot more prominent men,
my Bill is still my one particular yen.

When I went to London,
I met the King.
I grant you that the King
is quite a sweet old thing,
but he's not as sweet
as the boyfriend back home.
I spent the winter in Italy.
I looked at Mussolini
and he looked at me,
but he didn't look like
the boyfriend back home.
My boyfriend may not be a perfect sheik
but he's got what Mae West calls neck technique.
And although Maurice Chevalier
may be a good performer in a certain way,
still he can't perform like
the boyfriend back home.

When I went to Ireland,
where friends I'd known
persuaded me to go
and kiss the Blarney Stone,
but I missed the kiss
of my boyfriend back home.
The King of Spain I idolized.
And once he let me see
the Spanish in his eyes,
but they weren't the eyes
of my boyfriend back home.
My boyfriend's low brow,
doesn't understand but somehow
his supply meets my demand.
And although dear Mister Flo Ziegfeld
may be a good producer in a modest way,
still he can't produce like
the boyfriend back home.

Soft karaoke
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The Boyfriend Back Home 1929 Cole Porter
Words and Music by Cole Porter
from "Fifty Million Frenchmen"
from "The Unpublished Cole Porter © 2003 -_Judy Brown
© 1929 by Robert H. Montgomery Jr. as Trustee of the Cole Porter
Musical Library and Literary Trust
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 20 September 2005 at 23.47
in association with Doug Grierson
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