The Manhattan Transfer Album

If you ever
Plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66

It winds from Chicago to LA
More than two thousand miles all the way
Baby, get your kicks on Route 66

Now you go through St. Louie
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty
You'll see Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff Arizona
Don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66

Now you go through St. Louie
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty
Now you'll see Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff Arizona
Don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66

Get your kicks on Route six six
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route six six

Whoo whoo ------

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine
She looked just like a royal queen
And she cruised by
With some wealthy guy
In a Cadillac limousine
Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine
Recall when we were seventeen
I was a beau
'Twas not so long ago
But too short
Of that long lost dream
To satisfy Jeannine

Now she's gone from me
Moved away from the old neighborhood
And I'm certain
She's gone for good

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine
The dollar signs stood in between
It was a love lost to the rising cost
But since then, I have never seen
I have never seen Jeannine

Instrumental solo

Now she's gone from me
Moved away from the old neighborhood
And I'm certain
She's gone for good

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine
The dollar signs stood in between
It was a love lost to the rising cost
But since then, I have never seen
I have never seen Jeannine

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine
Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine

Scat section

Hey cats - are you ready?
Oh Jeannine (Jeannine)
Jeannine (Jeannine)

Last time
Last time I saw Jeannine --
Last time I saw Jeannine --

I woke up this morning with a feeling of despair
I looked for my pussy but my pussy wasn't there
Well, well, well
My cat fell in the well
Oh puss puss puss poor kitty kitty kitty
My cat fell in the well

I got out a ladder and I climbed down to my pet
I saw in a jiffy that my puss was soakin' wet
Well, well, well
My cat fell in the well
Oh puss puss puss poor kitty kitty kitty
My cat fell in the well

The doggone hole by the pump
Once she pushed, and in she jumped


There never was a kitty half as pretty
As the pussy that fell in the well
There never was a pussy that could quite compare with her
Pretty as a picture with her long and silky fur -

Well, well, well, well my cat fell in the well, well
Oh oh oh pussy pussy pussy poor kitty kitty kitty
My cat fell in the well

If you have a pussy that you wouldn't trade or sell
Never let her wander or she might fall in a well
Well, well, well
My cat fell in the well
Oh puss puss puss poor kitty kitty kitty
My cat fell in the well
Fell in the - well!

THE DUKE OF DUBUQUE

I'm known near and far
as the cousin to the Czar
I'm the Duke, Duke of Dubuque

It's well understood
that my credit is no good, no good, no good
I'm the Duke of Dubuque

And if you don't believe me, and tell me it ain't true,
I've only got one answer,
that answer's "mush" to you!
Now, au revoir, I must write the dear old Czar
I'm the Duke, Duke of Dubuque

I'm descended from the Romanovs in Russia
In the books my father was Czar in Russia
But he sailed away one day
to the state of Ioway
And that's how you'll find me in the USA

I'm the crackers, I'm the cheese
Yeah, call them Wolfhounds, if you please
Yes, I'm the Duke, I'm the Duke of Dubuque

No pork chops, no gravy for me
some legbones and black-eyed peas
Yes, I'm the Duke, I'm the Duke of Dubuque

And if you don't believe me, and tell me it ain't true,
I've only got one answer,
That answer's "nuts" to you!

Now, fun to do, can you spare a buck or two?
I'm the Duke, Duke of Dubuque

He's the Duke, Duke of Dubuque
He's the Duke, Duke of Dubuque
Yes, I'm the Duke, the Duke of Dubuque
Doo dat doo dat doo dat Dubuque

Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven,
How high the moon
There is no moon above where love is far away too
'Til it comes true
That you love me as I love you

Somewhere there's music, how near how far
Somewhere there's heaven, it's where you are
The darkest night would shine if you would come to me soon
Until you will be still my heart
How high the moon!

Guitar Solo

Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune
Somewhere there's a heaven,
How high the moon
There is no moon above where love is far away too
Until you will, be still my heart
How high the moon!

Dit dot ditty dit dot a ditty ditty
Dit dot ditty dit dot a ditty ditty
Dit dot ditty dit dot a ditty ditty
Dit dot ditty, Baby come home to me

I sent my baby a telegram asking to be her man
Begging her to come back home to me (Baby come home to me)
Oh I dotted the I's and I crossed the T's
And I'm begging pretty please
Honey honey, come back home to me (Baby come home to me)

Dit dot?.
Baby I want your love
Woo-oo
Baby I need your love
Ooo
Honey honey come back home to me (Come back home to me)
Dit dot?
Got to have your love
Woo-oo
Can't live without your love
Woo-oo
Honey honey come back home to me (Come back home to me)

Oh I made mistakes, yes that's the truth
But the biggest one I made with you
Honey honey, come back home to me (Baby come home to me)
I thought that you would understand
I'm just a one woman man
Not like before so come back home to me (Baby come home to me)

Dit dot...
Baby I want your love
Woo-oo
Baby I need your love
Ooo
Honey honey come back home to me (Come back home to me)
Dit dot...
Got to have your love
Woo-oo
Can't live without your love
Woo-oo
Honey honey come back home to me (Come back home to me)

Dit dot ditty dit dot a ditty ditty
Ooo, aahh (Baby come home to me)
I said
Come back come back to me
Come back come back to me
Come back baby come back to me
Come back come back to me
Come back come back to me
Come back baby come back to me
(Repeat to fade)

Look it here Safronia had a guy that died pneumonia
In the state of California, if you'd like t'know
I want a little girl to be all mine in the wintertime

When the rain starts raining an' the snow starts snowin'
you reach up and turn on the radio
Look out Jack you'd better take it slow
'cause the chicks are rarin' t' go

Well you reach UNDER YOUR bed, you grab a JUG, take a little nip an' get ready
t' mug
Look at your gal, you kiss her and you SEND her
make her holler 'I surrender, I surrender!'
I'SE a-muggin'
Shoot the likker to me John boy
Take a tip from me, she's sweeter, my Safronia B

Sax solo

Well you reach UNDER YOUR bed, you grab a JUG, take a little nip an' get ready
t' mug
Look at your gal, you kiss her and you SEND her
make her holler 'I surrender, I surrender!'
I'SE a-muggin' shoot the likker to me John boy
Take a tip from me, she's sweeter, my Safronia B

Yeah yeah (oh yeah)
She's sweeter, that gal is sweeter
I said she's sweeter, my Safronia B
yeah!

You're my heart's desire, You're my hearts desire--

You are
My heart's desire (hearts desire)
You set my soul on fire (soul on fire)
When your lips are close to mine
You'll find --
That you're my hearts desire (you're my hearts desire, you're my hearts desire)

Oh--
No other love could be (love could be)
As sweet as yours to me (yours to me)
Oh my darling, oh can't you plainly see
That you're my hearts desire

No other dream could replace
That lonely and cold empty space
And fill my heart with a love
For it's you I'm dreaming of...

There's one thing I know (baby I know)
I know that wherever, wherever, wherever you may go (you may go)
Oh honey I'll forever keep on loving and wanting you so
'Cause you're my hearts desire
You are my heart's desire

I still remember the day that we met
Your smile is something I'll never forget
And since that day my love grows and grows
And that's the way it goes

The way it goes...

I spent a lifetime just waiting for you
But from now on dear my searching is through
For you have made all my dreams come true
And that's the way it goes

From out of nowhere you came into view
Now I'm completely in love with you
You walked right in, my heart walked out
You took its place without doubt

Oh won't you please open your heart to me
For since I've known you, you're all that I see
You are the one love that my heart has chosen
That's the way it goes -
It goes ---

Oh my love, my darling (yeah)
I hunger for your t-t-t-t-t-t-touch, oooooh
Time goes by so slowly
Yes and time can do so m-m-m-m-m-m-much
Are you still mine--

I need your love (Need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it)
I need your love (Need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it)
Godspeed your love right now (Yeah, yeah)

Lonely rivers flow to the sea, (Yeah, yeah, flow, flow to, Sea sea look at the sea)
To the open arms (Cmon pretty baby do you too - Yeah yeah)
Of the sea (Of the sea, sea look at the sea)
Time (C'mon pretty baby one more time, yeah yeah)
Near the side (Near the side side, wait for me, me wait for me)
Wait for me (I'll be comin' home my baby I, yeah yeah)
I'll be comin' home, wait and see (be comin' home)

Oh my love, my darling (yeah)
I hunger for your t-t-t-t-t-t-touch ooooh
Time goes by so slowly
Yes and time can do so m-m-m-m-m-m-much
Are you still mine--

I need your love (Need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it)
I need your love (Need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it, need it)
Godspeed your love right now (Yeah, yeah)

Oh my love, my darling (yes)
I hunger for your t-t-t-t-t-t-touch ooooh
T-t-t-t-t-t-touch ooooh, t-t-t-t-t-t-touch ooooh, t-t-t-t-t-t-touch ooooh
T-t-t-t-touch ooooh
T-t-t-t-touch ooooh
(Repeat to fade)