Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry

W: Johnny Mercer
M: Victor Schertzinger
From: “The Fleet Is In”
Betty Hutton
Key: C

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Life was so peace-ful at the laun-dry,
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Life was so calm and se-rene,
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Life was tres gay
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Till that un-luck-y day
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I hap-pened to read that mag-a-zine!
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Why did I read that ad-ver-tise-ment,
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Where it says, “Since I rum-ba,
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Jim thinks I’m sub-lime!?
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Why, oh why did I ev-er try
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When I did-n’t have the tal-ent,
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I did-n’t have the mon-ey,
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And teach-er did not have the time.

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Ar-thur Mur-ray taught me danc-in’ in a hur-ry;
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I had a week to spare,
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He showed me the ground work,
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The walk a-round work,
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And told me to take it from there!

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Ar-thur Mur-ray then ad-vised me not to wor-ry;
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It-‘d come out all right!
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To my way of think-in’ it came out stink-in’,
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I don’t know my left from my right!

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The peo-ple a-round me can all sing,
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A-one and a-two and a-three,
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But an-y re-sem-blance to waltz-ing
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Is just co-in-ci-den-tal with me!
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‘Cause Ar-thur Mur-ray taught me
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Danc-in’ in a hur-ry;

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And so I took a chance.
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To me it re-sem-bles The nine day trem-bles,
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But he guar-an-tees it’s a dance!