I’ll Take Tallulah lyrics, from the MGM romantic comedy, Ship Ahoy
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): Have you met Dolores?
Tommy Dorsey: Yes, I’ve met Dolores.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): she’s queen of the chorus.
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton) You can have the chorus.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): Have you met Olivia?
Tommy Dorsey: Her I’d take, Olivia.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): Her I’d gladly give ya
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton) Throw her in the river-ya.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): Who’s your queen, your rulah?
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton) Tallulah!
For that gal Tallulah I would fight a duela,
I would climb a hillah, I’ll paddle to Brasil-a.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): But this is getting sillah.
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): ‘Cause I love her true-lah.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): Who?
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton) Tallulah.
Skip Owens (Bert Lahr): When she starts out the conga, like an anaconda, it’s fricassee.
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): No one doing her hula can do what Tallulah can do to me.
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): I have met Fatima
Tallulah Winters (Eleanor Powell): Fatima is a schemma
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): I have met Marquita
Tallulah Winters (Eleanor Powell): Marquita is a cheeta
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): I have met Jemima
Tallulah Winters (Eleanor Powell): She’s a social climba
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): I have met Ophelia
Tallulah Winters (Eleanor Powell): She will double deal ya,
Merton Kibble (Red Skelton): The one who loves me trullah, I’ll take Tallulah
from the MGM musical-comedy-romance Ship Ahoy starring Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Bert Lahr, Virginia Mayo
