Song lyrics to Let’s K-nock K-nees (1931) Music and Lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, performed by Betty Grable and Edward Everett Horton in The Gay Divorcee
Betty Grable: You’re my type of a shy type of a beau, dear …
Edward Everett Horton: Beg pardon?
Betty Grable: So let’s do things …
Edward Everett Horton: Oh, really …
Betty Grable: I’ll teach you a few things …
Edward Everett Horton: Are you talking to me?
Betty Grable: Now who said just what you said, for I know dear …
Edward Everett Horton: No, no, I’ve been reading …
Betty Grable: I’m not bashful, I’m actual and pash-ful …
Edward Everett Horton: I’m beginning to sense that!
Betty Grable: When you’re near I feel so “let’s play house”-y … Oh you make me feel so Mickey Mouse-y!
Edward Everett Horton: Well, for a well-known lawyer at a place like this …
Betty Grable: You’re sweet and so agreeable, and I feel so “gosh, oh gee”-able, do for me or I’ll flee — and let’s k-nock k-nees!
You are so “bill and coo”-able, and I’m so “I love you”-able, come cuddle closer please, and let’s k-nock k-nees!
Edward Everett Horton: Is this some sort of a game?
Betty Grable: They say make hay while the sun shines …
Edward Everett Horton: An agricultural trend.
Betty Grable: So lets, oh lets, make hay, hay, hay, while the moon shines!
My heart’s so tick tock tick-able, your lips are so lipstick-able, you know your ABC’s so let’s k-nock k-nees!
Edward Everett Horton: [calling for Fred Astaire’s character] Guy! … Oh, never mind.
It’s so incomprehensible, it doesn’t seem quite sensible, and yet I like it. Please! Let’s knock knees. [they begin knocking knees] It’s almost hoi polloi-able, and yet it’ss quite enjoyable, ooh I’m full of rhapsody. [pushes Betty Grable off his lap] Too many people here. [begins dancing] Ripping, skipping, lightly bounding …
Betty Grable: Stop it, knock it [knock their knees together]
Edward Everett Horton: Really, this is most astounding.
Betty Grable: It makes one feel most thrill-able …
Edward Everett Horton: Well, we’ve exhausted every syllable.
Betty Grable: I crave frivolity.
Edward Everett Horton: I’ve got one … let’s knock knees.
[dancing girls, others dance]
Everyone: Let’s knock knees!
Edward Everett Horton: Oh, hello!
