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.
(Verse)
My story is much too sad to be told
But practically everything
Leaves me totally cold
The only exception I know is the case
When I’m out on a quiet spree
Fighting vainly the old ennui
And I suddenly turn and see
Your fabulous face
(Chorus)
I get no kick from Champagne
Mere alchohol doesn’t thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you
Some get a kick from cocaine
I’m sure that if I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrif-
Ically too
Yet I get a kick out of you
I get a kick every time I see you standing there before me
I get a kick though its clear to me you obviously don’t
Adore me
I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high
With some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do
Yet I get a kick out of you