Those lips that I desire are like electric wire... she kissed a tree last summer ooo she started a forest fire... Those lips that I desire are like electric wire... she kissed a tree last summer ooo she started a forest fire...
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It All Belongs To Me 1927

Vocals: Ruth Etting

Songwriting: Berlin

Intro
About a woman
Solo Vocalist
Lyrics

Take a look at the flower in my buttonhole

Take a look say and ask me why it’s there

Can’t you see that I’m all dressed up to take a stroll?

Can’t you tell that there’s something in the air?

I’ve got a date, can hardly wait

I’d like to bet she won’t be late

Here she comes, come on and meet

A hundred pounds of what is mighty sweet

And it all belongs to me

 

Flashing eyes and how they roll

A disposition like a sugar bowl

And it all belongs to me

That pretty baby face

That bunch of style and grace

Should be in Tiff’ny’s window in a platinum jewel case

 

Hey there, you

You’ll get in dutch

I’ll let you look but then you mustn’t touch

For it all belongs to me

 

Here she comes, come on and meet

A hundred pounds of what is mighty sweet

And it all belongs to me

 

Rosy cheeks, red hot lips

And polished nails upon her fingertips

And it all belongs to me

 

Those lips that I desire are like electric wire

She kissed a tree last summer ooo she started a forest fire

 

I’m in love with what she’s got

And what she’s got, she’s got an awful lot

And it all belongs to me

A million dollars worth of flying hips

Song Notes

“She kissed a tree last summer ooo she started a forest fire”: Having lips that were so hot they burned was a common statement in music of the era!

Language
English
Sheet Music
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/078/051
Citation
Columbia matrix W144593. It all belongs to me / Ruth Etting. 1927. In Discography of American Historical Recordings. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000034308/W144593-It_all_belongs_to_me.