From the Come 1940 musical “Du Barry Was a Lady”
Words and music by Cole Porter
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Down in Forty-second Street
Where fun is fun and heat is heat
There’s a barker man I know
Who barks for a burlesque show
When he starts to sell his wares
As eight o’clock arrives
Lovers leave their love affairs
And husbands chuck their wives
To hear him hollering once again
“Gentlemen, gentlemen
Pardon me if I call you gentlemen
Refrain:
Come on in and see the show tonight
Our girls are dynamite
They’ll raise your Fahrenheit
Come on in and see the show
Come on in and view our chicken farm
Each chick’s so full o’ charm
She’ll ring your fire alarm
Come on in and see the show
There’s a slant-eyed queen
Who does a routine in an oriental shawl
And when that Jap goes into her tap
Does the market fall? Don’t we all
Come on in and give the girls a glance
And if you take a chance
They’ll show you, when they dance
They went to school in France
Come on in, come on in
Come on in and see the show”