"I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU"
From Anything Goes (1934)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)
(Verse)
1 My story is much too sad to be told,
2 But practically ev'rything leaves me totally cold.
3 The only exception I know is the case
4 When I'm out on a quiet spree
5 Fighting vainly the old ennui,
6 And I suddenly turn and see
7 Your fabulous face.
(Refrain)
1 I get no kick from champagne.
2 Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
3 So tell me why should it be true
4 That I get a kick out of you?
5 Some get a kick from cocaine.
6 I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
7 That would bore me terrific'ly too.
8 Yet I get a kick out of you.
9 I get a kick ev'rytime I see
10 You standing there before me.
11 I get a kick though it's clear to me
12 You obviously don't adore me.
13 I get no kick in a plane,
14 Flying too high with some guy in the sky
15 Is my idea of nothing to do,
16 Yet I get a kick out of you.
The lyrics were first altered shortly after being written. The last verse originally went as follows:
I get no kick in a plane
I shouldn't care for those nights in the air
That the fair Mrs. Lindbergh goes through
But I get a kick out of you.
After the Lindbergh kidnapping,[1] Porter changed the second and third lines to:
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
In the 1936 movie version, alternative lyrics in the second verse were provided to replace a reference to the drug cocaine, which were not allowed due to the Hays Code.
The original verse goes as follows:
Some get a kick from cocaine
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically, too
Yet, I get a kick out of you
Porter changed the first line to:
Some like the perfume in Spain
One alternative version popularised by Alyson Ottaway changes the verse to:
Some like the bop-type refrain
I'm sure that if
I heard even one riff
It would bore me terrifically, too
Yet, I get a kick out of you
On different occasions, Sinatra recorded the original ("cocaine") and both post-Hays versions: the first in 1953 ("perfume in Spain") and the second ("bop-type refrain") in 1962.
From Anything Goes (1934)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)
(Verse)
1 My story is much too sad to be told,
2 But practically ev'rything leaves me totally cold.
3 The only exception I know is the case
4 When I'm out on a quiet spree
5 Fighting vainly the old ennui,
6 And I suddenly turn and see
7 Your fabulous face.
(Refrain)
1 I get no kick from champagne.
2 Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
3 So tell me why should it be true
4 That I get a kick out of you?
5 Some get a kick from cocaine.
6 I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
7 That would bore me terrific'ly too.
8 Yet I get a kick out of you.
9 I get a kick ev'rytime I see
10 You standing there before me.
11 I get a kick though it's clear to me
12 You obviously don't adore me.
13 I get no kick in a plane,
14 Flying too high with some guy in the sky
15 Is my idea of nothing to do,
16 Yet I get a kick out of you.
The lyrics were first altered shortly after being written. The last verse originally went as follows:
I get no kick in a plane
I shouldn't care for those nights in the air
That the fair Mrs. Lindbergh goes through
But I get a kick out of you.
After the Lindbergh kidnapping,[1] Porter changed the second and third lines to:
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
In the 1936 movie version, alternative lyrics in the second verse were provided to replace a reference to the drug cocaine, which were not allowed due to the Hays Code.
The original verse goes as follows:
Some get a kick from cocaine
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically, too
Yet, I get a kick out of you
Porter changed the first line to:
Some like the perfume in Spain
One alternative version popularised by Alyson Ottaway changes the verse to:
Some like the bop-type refrain
I'm sure that if
I heard even one riff
It would bore me terrifically, too
Yet, I get a kick out of you
On different occasions, Sinatra recorded the original ("cocaine") and both post-Hays versions: the first in 1953 ("perfume in Spain") and the second ("bop-type refrain") in 1962.
The Lindbergh kidnapping was in 1932, two years before "Anything Goes" opened.
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