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Bull dog -- Antoinette birby -- I've a shooting box in Scotland -- War song -- Old-Fashioned garden -- When I had a uniform on -- Two little babes in the wood -- I'm in love again -- Let's misbehave -- The laziest gal in town -- Weren't we fools? -- Let's do it, let's fall in love -- Which? -- Wake up and dream -- Looking at you -- What is this thing called love? -- I'm a gigolo -- You do something to me -- You've got that thing -- The tale of the oyster -- You don't know Paree -- I'm unlucky at gambling -- I worship you -- The queen of Terre Haute -- Why don't we try staying home? -- Love for sale -- I happen to like New York -- After you, who? -- Night and Day -- I've got you on my mind -- Mister and missus fitch -- The physician -- Miss Otis regrets -- I get a kick out of you -- All through the night -- You're the top -- Anything goes -- Blow, Gabriel, blow -- Thank you so much, Mrs. Lowsborough-Goodby -- Don't fence me in -- Begin the beguine -- Just one of those things -- Easy to love -- I've got you under my skin -- Goodbye, little dream, goodbye -- Ours -- Down in the depths -- It's de-lovely -- Ridin' high -- Red, hot and blue -- In the still of the night -- At long last love -- Get out of town -- My heart belongs to Daddy -- I concentrate on you -- But in the morning, no -- Well, did you evah! -- Katie went to Haiti -- I've still got my health -- I'm throwing a ball tonight -- Make it another old-fashioned, please -- Dream-dancing -- Since I kissed my baby goodbye -- So near and yet so far -- Let's not talk about love -- You'd be so nice to come home to -- I love you -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye -- I wrote a play -- Be a clown -- Another op'nin', another show -- So in love -- I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua -- I hate men -- Were thine that special face -- Too darn hot -- Where is the life that late I led? -- Always true to you in my fashion -- Brush up your Shakespeare -- Use your imagination -- I am loved -- They couldn't compare to you -- Nobody's chasing me -- From this moment on -- I am in love -- It's all right with me -- Can-can -- Who said gay Paree? -- I love Paris -- All of you -- Stereophonic sound -- Siberia -- You're sensational. |
| Abstract |
Cole Porter possessed to a singular degree the art of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguarded revelations of feeling. Of the masters of 20th-century American songwriting, Porter was one of the few who wrote both music and lyrics, and, even in the absence of his melodies, his words distill an unmistakable mixture of poignancy and wit that marks him as a genius of light verse. Selected from over eight hundred songs, here are Porter's finest flights of invention, lyrics that are an indelible part of 20th-century culture. |
