[ti:You're the Top]
[00:09.89]At words poetic, I'm so pathetic
[00:12.82]That I always have found it best,
[00:15.28]Instead of getting 'em off my chest,
[00:17.93]To let 'em rest unexpressed,
[00:21.13]I hate parading my serenading
[00:23.42]As I'll probably miss a bar,
[00:26.48]But if this ditty is not so pretty
[00:28.93]At least it'll tell you how great you are.
[00:32.21]You're the top!
[00:34.44]You're the Colosseum.
[00:36.93]You're the top!
[00:39.22]You're the Louvre Museum.
[00:41.49]You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss
[00:45.40]You're a Bendel bonnet,
[00:46.48]A Shakespeare's sonnet,
[00:47.61]You're Mickey Mouse.
[00:50.90]You're the Nile,
[00:53.28]You're the Tower of Pisa,
[00:55.65]You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
[01:00.20]I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop!
[01:03.96]But if, baby, I'm the bottom
[01:05.62]You're the top!
[01:08.31]Your words poetic are not pathetic.
[01:10.73]On the other hand, babe, you shine,
[01:13.22]And I can feel after every line
[01:15.88]A thrill divine
[01:17.74]Down my spine.
[01:20.38]Now gifted humans like Vincent Youmans
[01:22.85]Might think that your song is bad,
[01:25.37]But I got a notion
[01:26.88]I'll second the motion
[01:28.22]And this is what I'm going to add:
[01:31.51]You're the top!
[01:33.84]You're Mahatma Gandhi.
[01:36.15]You're the top!
[01:38.48]You're Napoleon Brandy.
[01:40.87]You're the purple light
[01:42.08]Of a summer night in Spain,
[01:44.57]You're the National Gallery
[01:45.74]You're Garbo's salary,
[01:47.04]You're cellophane.
[01:50.25]You're sublime,
[01:52.56]You're turkey dinner,
[01:54.84]You're the time of a Derby winner
[01:59.44]I'm a toy balloon that is fated soon to pop
[02:02.86]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[02:05.01]You're the top!
[02:08.64]You're the top!
[02:10.91]You're an arrow collar
[02:13.13]You're the top!
[02:15.48]You're a Coolidge dollar,
[02:17.68]You're the nimble tread
[02:19.19]Of the feet of Fred Astaire,
[02:21.17]You're an O'Neill drama,
[02:22.49]You're Whistler's mama,
[02:23.72]You're camembert.
[02:26.73]You're a rose,
[02:29.10]You're Inferno's Dante,
[02:31.34]You're the nose, on the great Durante.
[02:35.89]I'm just in a way,
[02:37.13]As the French would say, "de trop".
[02:39.29]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[02:41.33]You're the top!
[02:44.97]You're the top!
[02:47.12]You're a dance in Bali.
[02:49.27]You're the top!
[02:51.56]You're a hot tamale.
[02:53.85]You're an angel, you,
[02:55.05]Simply too, too, too diveen,
[02:57.25]You're a Boticcelli,
[02:58.37]You're Keats, you're Shelly, you're Ovaltine.
[03:02.71]You're a boon,
[03:05.05]You're the dam at Boulder!
[03:07.29]You're the moon
[03:09.50]Over Mae West's shoulder,
[03:11.63]I'm the nominee of the G.O.P.
[03:13.76]Or GOP!
[03:14.96]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[03:17.42]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[03:19.52]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[03:24.03]You're the top!
[03:34.79]You're the top!
[03:36.87]You're my Swanee river!
[03:39.20]You're the top!
[03:41.37]You're a goose's liver!
[03:43.61]You're the baby grande of a Lady
[03:45.62]and a Gent.
[03:47.16]You're a dress from Saks,
[03:48.46]You're next years taxes,
[03:49.59]You're Pepsi-dent!
[03:52.83]You're a prize,
[03:55.14]You're a night at Coney!
[03:57.43]You're the eyes of Irene Bordoni.
[04:00.04]I'm a frightened frog,
[04:03.18]that can find no log to hop!
[04:05.49]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[04:08.00]You're the top!
[04:10.97]You're the top,
[04:13.06]You're a Waldorf salad.
[04:15.32]You're the top!
[04:17.41]You're a Berlin ballad.
[04:19.62]You're the boats that glide
[04:21.20]On the sleepy Zuider Zee,
[04:23.15]You're an old Dutch master,
[04:24.35]You're Lady Astor,
[04:25.68]You're broccoli.
[04:28.60]You're romance,
[04:30.92]You're the steppes of Russia,
[04:32.96]You're the pants on a Roxy usher,
[04:37.60]I'm a broken doll,
[04:38.96]a fol-de-rol,
[04:39.93]a blop!
[04:41.00]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[04:43.30]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[04:45.54]But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
[04:49.97]You're the top!
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