From the 1942 film “True To The Army”.
Words by Frank Loesser.
Music by Harold Spina.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s a pretty little girl next door
With many a date
She goes out lots but never out late
She’s home by ten right there at the gate
With her feller, her feller, her feller
Her feller with the gum-soled shoes
And baggy old pants
He brings her home from many a dance
And then begins this song of romance
A Jitterbug’s Lullaby
Refrain
Goodnight, sleep tight
Your dancin’ sure was dynamite
Now goodnight, sleep tight my baby
Goodnight, sleep tight
We should have won the cup all right
But goodnight, great fight my baby
Oh I was so proud, that Palladium crowd
They tought you were really cute
You murdered them, Kid
Why by diggin’ you did
Make all the other creatures
Look as square as a root
Well, goodnight, sleep tight
We’ll try again tomorrow night
Now goodnight, sleep tight my baby
- Then they kiss and then she
Climbs up stairs and tumbles in bed
And oh what dreams go ’round in her head
“We jump tomorrow” that’s what he said
Her feller, her feller, her feller
Her feller with the gum-soled shoes
And baggy old pants
Who brings her home from many a dance
The boy who sings a song of romance
A Jitterbug’s Lullaby