Where’d you get those eyes? 1927
Vocals: Josephine Baker
Band: Le Jacob's Jazz
Songwriting: Donaldson
Who’s that coming down the street,
All dressed up like a Christmas tree?
Who’s that coming down my way?
What’s her name? I bet it’s Rose,
She’s as sweet as the rose that grows,
I’ll walk right up to her and say.
Now tell me where’d you get those eyes?
Where’d you get those lips?
Where’d you get those dimples, honey?
Where’d you get that smile so sunny?
Those chins, those nose, those rosy cheeks,
I’m gone, been gone for weeks and weeks.
Say, how’d you grow so nice?
How did you grow so sweet?
Where’d you get that new blue bonnet,
With the doo-wacka-doo-doos on it?
Please make me happy and put me wise,
Where did you get those great, great big eyes?
Now tell me where’d you get those eyes?
Where’d you get those lips?
Where’d you get those dimples, honey?
Where’d you get that smile so sunny?
Those chins, those nose and those rosy cheeks,
I’m gone, been gone for weeks and weeks.
Say, how’d you grow so nice?
How did you grow so sweet?
Where’d you get that little blue bonnet,
With the doo-wacka-doo-doos on it?
Please make me happy and put me wise,
Where did you get those great, great, great big eyes?
Where’d you get those eyes
Where’d you get those lips
Where’d you get those dimples, honey?
Where’d you get that smile so sunny?
Those chins, those nose and those rosy cheeks
Why I’m gone, been gone for weeks and weeks
Say, how’d you grow so nice?
How’d you grow so sweet?
Where’d you get that little blue bonnet,
With the doo-wacka-doo-doos on it?
Please make me happy, and put me wise,
Where did you get those great, great big eyes?
Here, the gender of the narrator’s love interest is set up as a ‘she’ in the introductory verse.
This record was released in France and Germany. Baker was a queer Black American who moved to Europe and is remembered for many reasons.