One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

Album: Singin' in the Rain: Various Showtunes (1943)
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  • It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place
    Except you and me
    So set 'em' up Joe, I got a little story
    You oughta know

    We're drinking my friend, to the end
    Of a brief episode
    Make it one for my baby
    And one more for the road

    I got the routine, so drop another nickel
    In the machine
    I'm feeling so bad, I wish you'd make the music
    Dreamy and sad

    Could tell you a lot, but that's not
    In a gentleman's code
    Make it one for my baby
    And one more for the road

    You'd never know it, but buddy I'm a kind of poet
    And I've got a lot of things to say
    And when I'm gloomy, you simply gotta listen to me
    Until it's all talked away

    Well that's how it goes, and Joe I know your gettin'
    Anxious to close
    Thanks for the beer
    I hope you didn't mind

    My bending your ear
    Don't let it be said
    Little Freddie couldn't carry his load
    Make it one for my baby

    And one more for the road
    That long long road Writer/s: Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Roann from Apalachin, NyBillie Holiday also recorded it in 1956. An incredible version by an incredible singer. Check it out on YouTube. You'll be blown away.
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