Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison): Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn): Aaoooww!
Bring on those Wonderful Men is a parody of Here’s to the Girls in Ziegfeld Follies. It’s a very funny song by Virginia O’Brien, in her trademark stone faced style.
Frankie and Johnny is a traditional American popular song. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds her man Johnny making love to another woman and shoots him dead. Frankie is then arrested; in some versions of the song she is also executed. It’s based on an actual story.
Frankie and Johnny was sweethearts
At least that’s the way the story goes
Frankie bought everything for Johnny
From his sports car to his Ivy League clothes
All versions of The Tennessee Waltz tell the story of a person introducing his or her sweetheart to a friend who then waltzes away with her or him. The popularity of Tennessee Waltz also made it the fourth official song of the state of Tennessee in 1965
I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded was recorded by The Andrews Sisters, and by multiple people since. To modern ears, it’s more famous for its’ appearance in Fallout 76.
Everywhere you seem to go there I suppose you’ll find a yearn
Oh, how I’d like to be that man, he’s got money to burn
Oh, how I’d like to be that man, he’s got money to burn.
Song lyrics to That’s the Man for Me, sung by The Taylor Maids on The Red Skelton Show episode, Smokeless Sunday That’s the man for meI’d like to find a guyWith love light in his…
September Song was specially written by composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Maxwell Anderson for Walter Huston, for the Broadway show Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938
Song lyrics to Camptown Races (1850) by Stephen Foster – originally a minstrel song, it’s become an American classic, performed virtually everywhere – stage, screen, radio, television, and movies.
The Campptown ladies sing this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
The Camptown racetrack’s five miles long
Oh, de doo-da day
Oh! Susanna is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster, first published in 1848. It is among the most popular American songs ever written.
