Author: Michael Deatz

From the Musical “OUT OF THIS WORLD,” 1950. [cut]
Used in the Musical Film “KISS ME, KATE,” 1953.
Words and Music by Cole Porter.
Copyright ©28 Sep 1950.

The sheet music:

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

LYRICS:

Now that we are close,
No more nights morosel
Now that we are one,
The beguine has just begun.
Now that we’re side by side,
The future looks so gay.
Now we are alibied when we say:

REFRAIN:

From this moment on, 
You for me, dear,
Only two for tea, dear,
From this moment on.
From this happy day,
No more blue songs,
Only whoop-dee-doo songs,
From this moment on.

For you’ve got the love I need so much,
Got the skin I love to touch,
Got the arms to hold me tight,
Got the sweet lips to kiss good-night,

From this moment on,
You and I, babe,
We’ll be ridin’ high, babe,
Ev’ry care is gone
From this moment on.

REPEAT REFRAIN:

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein:

From the London Revue, “WAKE UP AND DREAM!” 1929.
Words and Music by Cole Porter.
Copyright ©25 Mar 1929.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Lyrics:

VERSE 1

I was a humdrum person
Leading a life apart,
When love flew in through my window wide,
And quickened my humdrum heart.
Love flew in through my window,
I was so happy then.
But after love had stayed a while,
Love flew out again.

REFRAIN

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve it’s mystery?
When should it make a fool of me?
I saw you there one wonderful day
You took my heart and threw it away.
That’s why I ask the Lawd in Heaven above,
What is this thing called love?

VERSE 2

You gave me days of sunshine,
You gave me nights of cheer;
You made my life an enchanted dream,
Till somebody else came near,
Somebody else came near you,
I felt the winter’s chill
And now I sit and wonder night and day,
Why I love you still?

REPEAT REFRAIN

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©27 Jul 1925.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

1. One little kiss, a moment of bliss
   Then hours of deep regret
   One little smile, and after a while
   A longing to forget
   One little heartache, left as a token
   One little plaything carelessly broken

Chorus
Remember the night, the night you said
“I love you”, remember?
Remember you vowed by all the stars
Above you, remember?
Remember we found a lonely spot
And after I learned to care a lot
You promised that you’d forget me not
But you forgot to remember

2. Into my dreams, you wandered it seems
   And then there came a day
   You loved me too, my dreams had come true
   And all the world was May
   But soon the Maytime, turned to December
   You had forgotten, do you remember?

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©23 Jul 1918.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

1. The other day I chanced to meet
   A soldier friend of mine
   He’d been in camp for sev’ral weeks
   And he was looking fine
   His muscles had developed
   And his cheeks were rosy red
   I asked him how he liked the life
   And this is what he said

Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Some day I’m going to murder the bugler
Some day they’re going to find him dead
I’ll amputate his reveille
And step upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed”

Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Oh! boy the minute the battle is over
Oh! boy the minute the foe is dead
I’ll put my uniform away
And move to Philadelphia
And spend the rest of my life in bed”

2. A bugler in the army
   Is the luckiest of men
   He wakes the boys at five
   And then goes back to bed again
   He doesn’t have to blow again
   Until the afternoon
   If everything goes well with me
   I’ll be a bugler soon

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©22 Sep 1933.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

Never saw you look quite so pretty before
Never saw you dressed quite so lovely, what’s more
I could hardly wait to keep our date
This lovely Easter morning
And my heart best fast
As I came through the door, for

Chorus
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it
You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade
I’ll be all in clover, and when they look you over
I’ll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us
And you ‘ll find that you’re in the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
And of the girl I’m taking to the Easter Parade