From the 1941 film “Sun Valley Serenade”.
Words by Mack Gordon.
Music by Harry Warren.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Howdy folks, let’s go for a ride
Get your favorite one to sit by your side
Cuddle up in a sleigh
Giddyap Nellie Grey and away we go
While you listen to the sleigh bells ring
You’re yodeling to your baby
You’ll feel nice and warm
No matter how cold it may be
Take a look at little Jack and Jill
They ski down a hill that’s a snow plow turn
And look there’s a spill
There’s a spill on the hill
When you’re down it’s a thrill to go up again
Ev’rybody ought to learn to ski
For that is how we first met
We were that Jack and Jill
That came down a hill
When I looked at you my heart took a spill
Took a spill on a hill
It’s a thrill that I can’t forget
Chorus
It happened in Sun Valley not so very long ago
There were sunbeams in the snow
And a twinkle in your eye
I remember, oh so clearly
That you nearly passed me by
Then it happened in Sun Valley
When you slipped and fell and so did I
Coda
Now ev’ry year we go back
And then we recall that fall
And that moment when we were there on a hill
So we both take a spill
And we’re Jack and Jill again