Lyrics Tess's Torch Song - Dinah Shore
Tess's
Torch
Song
Dinah
Shore
(Ted
Koehler
& Harold
Arlen)
I
HAD
A
MAN.
HE
WAS
A
GOOD
MAN.
THAT
IS,
YOU
SEE,
WHAT
I
MEAN
IS
I
THOUGHT
HE
WAS
A
GOOD
MAN.
I
HAD
A
FRIEND.
SHE
WAS
A
GOOD
FRIEND.
I
TOLD
MY
FRIEND
BOUT
MY
MAN
CAUSE
I
THOUGHT
SHE
WAS
A
GOOD
FRIEND.
LIFE
WAS
SWEET.
DIDNT
I
HAVE
MY
MAN?
WORLD
COMPLETE...
THEN
THE
FIREWORKS
BEGAN.
AINT
GOT
NO
MAN.
AINT
GOT
NO
FRIEND.
I
BET
YOU
CAN
GUESS
JUST
EXACTLY
WHAT
HAPPENED.
THAT
WAS
THE
END,
THE
END
OF
MY
FRIEND,
THE
END
OF
MY
MAN,
AND
ALMOST
THE
END
OF
ME.
OH
YES,
OH
YES,
I
HAD
A
MAN.
OOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO,
THAT
IS,
YOU
SEE,
WHAT
I
MEAN
IS
I
THOUGHT
HE
WAS
A
GOOD
MAN.
I
HAD
A
FRIEND
I
SAID,
I
HAD
A
FRIEND
UMM-MMM-MMM-MMM-MMM
I
TOLD
MY
FRIEND
BOUT
MY
MAN
CAUSE
I
THOUGHT
SHE
WAS
A
GOOD
FRIEND.
LIFE
WAS
SWEET.
DIDNT
I
HAVE
MY
MAN,
MY
MAN
WORLD
COMPLETE...
THEN
THE
FIREWORKS
BEGAN.
AINT
GOT
NO
MAN.
AINT
GOT
NO
FRIEND.
I
BET
YOU
CAN
GUESS
JUST
EXACTLY
WHAT
HAPPENED.
THAT
WAS
THE
END,
THE
END
OF
MY
FRIEND,
THE
END
OF
MY
MAN,
AND
DARNED
NEAR
THE
END
OF
ME.
Danny
Kaye's
wife,
Sylvia
Fine,
adapted
it
to
a
jive
version
that
was
done
In
a
"Mail
Call"
program
in
1944
by
Danny
and
Dinah:
TESSS
TORCH
SONG
- JIVEBEST
FRIEND...
Dinah:
OH,
SO-SO-SO
SO
SWEET
AS
CHOCOLATE
MALTER.
Danny:
I
TOLD
MY
FRIEND
BOUT
MY
GAL
CAUSE
I
THOUGHT
HE
WAS
MY
BEST
FRIEND!
Dinah:
SHOOT
THE
BROMO
TO
ME,
RAMON.
LIFE
WAS
SWEET...
Danny:
I
WAS
A
HA-AA-APPY
MAN!
Dinah:
WORLD
COMPLETE...
Danny:
THEN
CAME
THE
BUST-UP,
THEY
BUSTED
MY
TRUST
UP.
THE
FIREWORKS
BEGAN.
Dinah:
YOU
LOST
YOUR
GAL...
Danny:
OH,
LEARNED
JACKSON,
BLOW
THOSE
BLUES
FOR
ME.
Dinah:
YOU
LOST
YOUR
FRIEND...
Danny:
OH,
MURDER,
MURDER
IN
THE
FIRST
DEGREE!
Dinah:
I
GOT
A
FEELIN?
THAT
SOMETHING
WILL
HAPPEN.
Both:
THIS
WONT
BE
THE
END
--
NO,
NO
ILL
FIND
A
NEW
FRIEND
--
YES,
YES
ILL
FIND
A
NEW
GAL
--
HO,
HO
THIS
WONT
BE
THE
END
OF
ME.
Both:
WELL
ZOOT,
WELL
BOOT,
WELL
WELL
ALL-ROOT
WITH
A
HEP-A-HEP-A-HEP-A
AND
A
STEP-STEP-STEP
Dinah:
GREETINGS,
GATE,
HOWYA
BEEN?
Danny:
OH
FEELIN?
GREAT,
GIMME
SOME
SKIN!
Dinah:
LOOKIN?
SHARP!
Danny:
OH,
SHARP
AS
A
HARP!
Dinah:
FEELIN?
KEEN?
Danny:
HEY,
KEEN
AS
A
BEAN.
Dinah:
NO
TEARS
FOR
MARY?
Danny:
AS
DRY
AS
A
PRAIRIE.
Dinah:
NO
WOE
FOR
JOE?
Danny:
OH
NO,
NO,
NO.
Dinah:
NO
BEATIN?
THE
GRAY?
Danny:
OH
NAY,
NAY,
NAY.
Dinah:
NO
BUSTED
TICKER?
Danny:
OH,
TICKER
TICKIN?
SLICKER.
Dinah:
WELL,
TOAST
ME,
MELBA
IS
THIS
A
FACT?
Danny:
BEAT
ME
DADDY
--[hand
slap]--
AND
ILL
HIT
YOU
BACK!
Both:
WELL
ZOOT,
WELL
BOOT,
WELL-WELL
ALL-ROOT
WITH
A
HEP-A-HEP-A-HEP-A
AND
A
STEP-STEP-STEP
Danny:
HEY,
GOOD
LOOKIN?
Dinah:
WHATSA
IS-A
COOKIN?
Danny:
FEELIN?
GROOVY?
Dinah:
GROOVY
AS
A
MOVIE!
Danny:
SOFT
AND
MELLOW?
Dinah:
MELLOW
AS-A
JELLO.
Danny:
WANNA
BE
MY
CHICKEN?
Dinah:
NOW
YOUS
A-CLICKIN?
Danny:
NO
YAK-YAK?
Dinah:
SOLID,
JACK!
Danny:
WELL,
RATION
ME
SOME
PASSION,
PITCH
ME
SOME
WOO
Dinah:
ON
THE
BUTTON,
GLUTTON
--(kiss)--SMACKEROO!
Danny:
WELL,
GRILL
ME,
LAMB
CHOP
WELL,
ALL
RIGHT!
Dinah:
CROWD
ME,
MAMA,
CAUSE
ITS
SATURDAY
NIGHT!
Both:
WELL
ZOOT,
WELL
BOOT,
WELL-WELL
ALL-ROOT
WITH
A
HEP-A-HEP-A-HEP-A
AND
A
STEP-STEP-STEP
(They
do
a
verse
of
echo-scat,
Danny
leading.)
Both:
WELL
ZOOT,
WELL
BOOT,
WELL-WELL
ALL-ROOT
WITH
A
HEP-HEP-HEP-HEP-HEP!
These
are
pretty
obscure
numbers,
but
they're
really
entertaining!
--Gary
Moody

1 Ma Says, Pa Says
2 Fever
3 Sentimental Journey
4 Buttons And Bows
5 Black Coffee
6 A Guy Is a Guy
7 You're a Builder Upper
8 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
9 Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
10 Can't You Read Between the Lines (In Concert)
11 The Lady Is a Tramp
12 The Black Hills of Dakota
13 Sometimes I'm Happy
14 If I Could Be With You
15 Just Blew in from the Windy City
16 Linger In My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
17 That's All
18 The Deadwood Stage
19 A Rainy Night In Rio
20 Just One of Those Things
21 Laura
22 Lover
23 My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
24 Just One Of Those Things
25 Elmers Tune
26 Thoughtless
27 Love Me or Leave Me
28 Baubles, Bangles and Beads
29 It's Magic
30 The Dreamer
31 I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
32 Secret Love
33 Tallahassee
34 It Ain't Necessarily So
35 The Very Thought of You
36 The Dixieland Band: Button Up Your Over Coat (In Concert)
37 Lets Do It (Lets Fall in Love)
38 Love Somebody
39 How High the Moon
40 Too Young
41 Again
42 Night and Day
43 Clarinade
44 Sugarbush
45 I've Got the World On a String
46 Make The Man Love Me
47 The Way You Look Tonight
48 Toodle-Lee-Oo-Doo
49 A Full Time Job
50 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
51 It Never Happened To Me
52 Lets Take An Old Fashioned Walk
53 Gotta Be This or That
54 Good-Bye
55 Powder Your Face With Sunshine
56 Lover Come Back To Me
57 Shanghai
58 Papa Won't You Dance With Me
59 Shoo Shoo, Baby
60 Tess's Torch Song
61 There's a Bluebird on Your Windowsill
62 I'll Walk Alone
63 A Guy Is A Guy
64 With a Song in My Heart
65 Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
66 These Foolish Things
67 Yesterdays
68 Just One More Chance
69 I Didn't Know What Time It Was
70 The Man I Love
71 Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
72 Put 'Em In a Box, Tie 'Em With a Ribbon
73 My Heart Cries For You
74 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
75 Enjoy Yourself
76 Sweet Violets
77 Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me
78 Quicksilver
79 I've Got My Eyes on You
80 Dorsey Medley
81 Close
82 Autumn Leaves
83 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
84 Then I'll Be Tired of You
85 Manhattan Serenade
86 Please Be Kind
87 Love and Marriage
88 (Just One Way to Say) I Love You
89 Something To Remember You By
90 Love Me Or Leave Me
91 Don't Leave Me Daddy
92 There Is No Greater Love
93 Happy in Love
94 How Long Has This Been Going On?
95 Blues In The Night
96 Why Don't You Do Right?
97 I Hear a Rhapsody
98 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (From Woody Allen's "Radio Days")
99 Just a Whitslin' And a Whittlin'
100 Shake Down the Stars
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