Ella Fitzgerald - (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It (Live, Hollywood, 1961) Lyrics

Lyrics (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It (Live, Hollywood, 1961) - Ella Fitzgerald



The concert was over in Carnegie Hall
The maestro took bow after bow
He said, "My dear friends I have given my all
Im sorry, its all over now"
When from the gallery way up high
There suddenly came this mournful cry
"Mr. Paganini, please play my rhapsody
And if you cannot play it, wont you sing it?
And if you cant sing it, you'll simply have to "
"Mr. Paganini, we breathlessly await
Your masterful baton, go on and sling it
And if you cant sling it, you'll simply have to "
We heard your repertoire and at the final bar
We greeted you with a round applause
But what a great ovation, your interpretation "
"Mr. Paganini, now dont you be a meanie
What have you up your sleeve? Come on and spring it
And if you dont spring it, that means you'll have to "
"Mr. Paganini, please play my rhapsody
And if you cannot play it, won't you sing it?
And if the boys is bopping ain't no need in stopping "
"Mr. Paganini, we breathlessly await
Your masterful baton, go on and sling it
If the boys are bopping ain't no need in stopping"
A Tisket a tasket
I lost my yellow basket We heard your repertoire and at the final bar
We greeted you with a round applause
But what a great ovation, your interpretation "Listen Paganini, now dont you be a meanie
What have you up your sleeve? Come on and spring it
And if you dont spring it, that means you have to"
We've heard your repertoire and at the final bar
We greeted you, we greeted you with wild applause
But what a great ovation, your interpretation "Mr. Paganini, now dont you be a meanie
What have you up your sleeve? Come on and spring it
And if you dont spring it, that means you have to swing it"



Writer(s): Sam Coslow


Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald - First Lady Of Song
Album Ella Fitzgerald - First Lady Of Song
date of release
01-01-1993

1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 I'm Just a Lucky So and So (1957 Version)
3 April In Paris
4 You're an Old Smoothie (Alternate Take)
5 'Deed I Do
6 You've Changed
7 Lush Life (1957 Version)
8 Heart and Soul ("First Lady of Song" Version, 1993)
9 Makin' Whoopee (1958)
10 (I've Got) Something to Live For
11 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Live, Cote D'Azur, 7/29/66)
12 Don't Be That Way
13 A Fine Romance (1963 Version)
14 Something's Gotta Give
15 Blue Skies (1958 Stereo Version)
16 Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
17 I Can't Get Started
18 Lullaby of Birdland (Live, Hartford, 1954)
19 Too Young for the Blues (Alternate Single Version)
20 Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) [1956 Version]
21 Airmail Special (Live In Newport, R.I., 1957)
22 These Foolish Things (Live Rome, 1958)
23 Baby Don't You Go 'Way Mad
24 How Long Has This Been Going On? (1959 Stereo Version)
25 Detour Ahead ("First Lady of Song" Version, 1993)
26 How High The Moon? (Live, West Berlin, 1960)
27 Oh, Lady Be Good (Live Shrine Auditorium 1957)
28 Swingin' Shepherd Blues
29 Day In, Day Out (Live, Cote D'Azur, 7/28/64)
30 Here's That Rainy Day (Live, Hamburg, 1965)
31 So Danco Samba (Live, Juan-les-Pins, 1966)
32 Mack the Knife (Live West Berlin 1960)
33 (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It (Live, Hollywood, 1961)




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