Blackout Over Broadway – Babes On Broadway – letras

ALL 6:Here we are, six characters, depressed and melancholy.Here we are, six characters, in search of a finale.We’ve racked our brains and taxed our mindsto find a trick that’s new,but still we haven’t got the slightest idea what to do.BARBARA JO:[spoken] We might try a Russian ballet,but a ballet might disclose that I am moreathletic than aesthetic on my toes.HAMMY:[spoken] Say, how about a circus? We could all go acrobatic.Now, here’s a trick I learned in school, to strenghten my…sciatic.ANNE:We could all go South American,and cut a South American rug.Ah, but I’d never arrive,I ain’t hep to their jive![I’m just a Brooklyn jitterbug.RAY:[spoken] Hold everything- I’ve got it, pals!Let’s do an aquacade.It’s true that I can’t swim a stroke, ah, but you oughta see me wade!PENNY: What’s wrong with doing something old? Something tried and trueTOMMY: Well, how about a minstrel show (PENNY joins) does that appeal to you?PENNY: A good old-fashioned minstrel show4 OTHERS: {spoken] That suits usTOMMY: [spoken] Well, then let’s go!ALL 6:Go and tell New York to grab a piece of corkand join that blackout over Broadway.Everybody’s gonne be dancin’ on airBARBARA JO & RAY: When they hear ’em playin’ « Swanee River » in Times SquareANNE & HAMMY:Every southern lass is gonna cook with gas,and boy, that southern cookin’s ok!PENNY & TOMMY:And when you hear that moan on the slide trombone,you’ll wanna black up (others join) for that blackout over Braodway.PENNY & TOMMY:Go and tell the town they oughta come on downand join that blackout over BroadwayBARBARA JO & RAY: You’ll see Andrew Jackson Brown, straight from the southBARBARA JO: and if he don’t entertain you, you can shut my mouth!ANNE & HAMMY:There’ll be so much funthat long before we’re done those angels up in Heaven will sayPENNY & TOMMY:Ain’t got no time to stall, spread your wings,you all, and start to black up for that blackout over Broadway.CHORUS:Every southern lass is gonna cook with gas,and boy, that southern cookin’s ok!And when you hear that moan on the slide trombone,you’ll wanna black up for that blackout over Broadway!