Song Lyrics

You're the Top is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It's about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The lyrics are notable because they offer a snapshot as to what was highly prized in the mid-1930s

You’re The Top song lyrics

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April 9, 2020May 2, 2021

Song lyrics to You’re The Top, Written by Cole Porter, Performed in Anything Goes

You’re the Top is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It’s about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The lyrics are notable because they offer a snapshot as to what was highly prized in the mid-1930s. Unsurprisingly, the lyrics have been changed (and parodied) hundreds of times.

Movie Versions of You’re the Top

Ethel Merman sang it in the original 1934 production of Anything Goes.
Bing Crosby sang it with Ethel Merman in the 1936 film. He also sang in the 1956 film Anything Goes with Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O’Connor and Jeanmaire.
Barbra Streisand performed it in What’s Up, Doc?.
Diana Rigg performed it n the 1982 Agatha Christie Poirot film Evil Under the Sun.

TV renditions of You’re the Top

Glee – “Heart”
The Dick Van Dyke Show – “Washington vs. the Bunny”
M*A*S*H – The Joker Is Wild”

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April 8, 2020December 18, 2021

Song lyrics to I Get A Kick Out Of You, Written by Cole Porter, Performed by Zizi Jeanmaire in Anything Goes

I Get a Kick Out of You is a song by Cole Porter, which was first sung in the 1934 Broadway musical Anything Goes, and then in the 1936 film version. Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by dozens of prominent performers, including Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

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April 7, 2020December 19, 2021

Song lyrics to Anything Goes, Written by Cole Porter, Performed by Mitzi Gaynor in the movie Anything Goes

Times have changed
And we’ve often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock. If today
Any shock they should try to stem
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.

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April 5, 2020October 25, 2022

Song lyrics to Yes! We Have No Bananas (1923) by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn

There’s a fruit store on our street
It’s run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers “no”.
He just “yes”es you to death, and as he takes your dough
He tells you
“Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
We’ve string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today.”

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April 4, 2020January 31, 2021

Song lyrics to Dixie, also known as Dixie’s Land and I Wish I Was in Dixie

Original version of Dixie, by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Mount Vernon, Ohio

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten, (Alt Original: Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,)
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.

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April 3, 2020October 29, 2023

Song lyrics to You’ll Never Know Just What Tears Are, written by Ted Healy and His Stooges (better known as the Three Stooges).

You’ll Never Know What Tears Are was originally performed for their vaudeville stage act. However, it’s been filmed by the Stooges multiple times as well.

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April 1, 2020April 6, 2021
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Song lyrics to When Private Brown Becomes a Captain, Lyrics by Don Raye, Music by Hugh Prince, Performed by Lou Costello , Shemp Howard and the kitchen crew in Buck Privates

Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): That sergeant always makes me boil,
I’d like to fry that guy in oil,
No matter what you do he’s always squawkin’
But you just wait and don’t forget
I’ll get to be a captain yet
And that’s the day that I’ll do all the talkin’.