I Get a Kick Out of You: Analyzing the Lyrics and Music of Cole Porter's Jazz Standard, Lecture notes of Literature

Download I Get a Kick Out of You: Analyzing the Lyrics and Music of Cole Porter's Jazz Standard and more Lecture notes Literature in PDF only on Docsity! I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU-Cole Porter 4/4 1…2…1234 Verse: My story is much too sad to be told, But practically everything leaves me totally cold The only ex-ception I know is the case, when I’m out on a quiet spree, Fighting vainly the old ennui, and I suddenly turn and see your fabulous face I get no kick from cham-pagne. Mere alco-hol doesn’t thrill me at all So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? Some get a kick from co-caine. I’m sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me ter-rifically too, yet I get a kick out of you p.2. I Get a Kick Out of You Bridge: I get a kick every time I see you stand -ing there be - fore me I get a kick though it’s clear to me you obviously don’t a-dore me I get no kick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal/guy in the sky Is my idea of nothing to do, yet I get a kick out of you Interlude: chords of the bridge I get no kick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal/guy in the sky Is my idea of nothing to do, yet I get a kick, It’s quite a kick, I get a kick out of you