From the musical “Louisiana Purchase”, 1940
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I’m tired of doing the same things
Over and over again
You must admit that it’s a bore
I keep longing for a change
Something different, something strange
That we have never done before
Chorus
I’d love to be shot from a cannon with you
Now that’s something diff’rent that I’d like to do
We’d float through the air in a way that
I never could forget the day that
I was shot from a cannon with you
Chorus
I’d love to be tried for a urder with you
The trial goes against us and we’re feeling blue
And just when we couldn’t have won it
The judge stands up and says, “I done it”
When I’m tried for a murder with you
Chorus
I’d love to fall down in a coal-hole with you
We’d fall on a mattress and that’s something new
It’s dark and we think we’re in clover
When Winchell’s voice says, “Please move over”
When I fall in a coal-hole with you
Chorus
I’d love to be caught in a mousetrap with you
We’re hungry and so there is one thing to do
We’d soon hear a couple of mouses
Yell out, “They ate our cheese, the louses!”
When I’m caught in a mousetrap with you
Chorus
I’d love to escape a hotel room with you
We open the window and quickly jump thru
And just when we get to the bottom
The cameraman says, “Cut! I got ’em!”
When I’m in a hotel room with you