Babes on Broadway movie - Blackout Over Broadway lyrics
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ALL 6: <br>
Here we are, six characters, depressed and melancholy. <br>
Here we are, six characters, in search of a finale. <br>
We've racked our brains and taxed our minds <br>
to find a trick that's new, <br>
but still we haven't got the slightest idea what to do.<br>
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BARBARA JO: <br>
[spoken] We might try a Russian ballet, <br>
but a ballet might disclose that I am more<br>
athletic than aesthetic on my toes.<br>
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HAMMY: <br>
[spoken] Say, how about a circus? We could all go acrobatic. <br>
Now, here's a trick I learned in school, to strenghten my...sciatic.<br>
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ANNE: <br>
We could all go South American, <br>
and cut a South American rug. <br>
Ah, but I'd never arrive, <br>
I ain't hep to their jive![<br>
I'm just a Brooklyn jitterbug.<br>
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RAY: <br>
[spoken] Hold everything- I've got it, pals! <br>
Let's do an aquacade. <br>
It's true that I can't swim a stroke, ah, but you oughta see me wade!<br>
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PENNY: What's wrong with doing something old? Something tried and true<br>
TOMMY: Well, how about a minstrel show (PENNY joins) does that appeal to you?<br>
PENNY: A good old-fashioned minstrel show<br>
4 OTHERS: {spoken] That suits us<br>
TOMMY: [spoken] Well, then let's go!<br>
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ALL 6: <br>
Go and tell New York to grab a piece of cork <br>
and join that blackout over Broadway.<br>
Everybody's gonne be dancin' on air<br>
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BARBARA JO & RAY: When they hear 'em playin' "Swanee River" in Times Square<br>
ANNE & HAMMY: <br>
Every southern lass is gonna cook with gas, <br>
and boy, that southern cookin's ok!<br>
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PENNY & TOMMY: <br>
And when you hear that moan on the slide trombone, <br>
you'll wanna black up (others join) for that blackout over Braodway.<br>
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PENNY & TOMMY: <br>
Go and tell the town they oughta come on down <br>
and join that blackout over Broadway<br>
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BARBARA JO & RAY: You'll see Andrew Jackson Brown, straight from the south<br>
BARBARA JO: and if he don't entertain you, you can shut my mouth!<br>
ANNE & HAMMY: <br>
There'll be so much fun <br>
that long before we're done those angels up in Heaven will say<br>
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PENNY & TOMMY: <br>
Ain't got no time to stall, spread your wings, <br>
you all, and start to black up for that blackout over Broadway.<br>
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CHORUS: <br>
Every southern lass is gonna cook with gas, <br>
and boy, that southern cookin's ok! <br>
And when you hear that moan on the slide trombone, <br>
you'll wanna black up for that blackout over Broadway!<br>
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