CAN'T HELP SINGING
Composer Jerome Kern
Lyricist Yip Harburg 1944

Deanna Durbin


As sung by Deanna Durbin in the 1944 Musical/Western film
Directed by Frank Ryan
Leads Deanna Durbin/Robert Paige
Durbin's only Technicolor film (of 21 she made)




I can't help singing of a promise that April is bringing
Though I'm floating along on the crest of a song
There are bells in my heart and they're ringing.

Can't help glowing, there's a spark in my heart and it's growing
I don't care what they, love affects me this way
And I gotta keep singing all day.

I'm floating along on the crest of a song
There are bells in my heart that they're ringing.

I don't care what they say, love affects me this way
Gotta keep singing, gotta keep singing
Singing all day.




(Transcribed by David Story - May 2013)


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CAN'T HELP SINGING
From the film "Can't Help Singing" (1944)
(Music: Jerome Kern / Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg)

Deanna Durbin (Film Soundtrack) - 1944


Aaaaah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah, aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah
I can't help singing of a promise that April is bringing
Though I'm floating along on the crest of a song
There are bells in my heart and they're ringing

Can't help glowing, there's a spark in my heart and it's growing
I don't care what they say , love affects me this way
And I gotta keep singing all day

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
I'm floating along on the crest of a song
There are bells in my heart that they're ringing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah
I don't care what they say, love affects me this way
Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah, gotta keep singing
Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah, gotta keep singing
Aah-aah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaah
Singing all day


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CAN'T HELP SINGING (Bathtub Version)
From the film "Can't Help Singing" (1944)
(Music: Jerome Kern / Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg)

Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige (Film Soundtrack) - 1944


DURBIN:
Hummingbird, mockingbird listen to me
I got no nest, I got no tree
Oh, but I'm happy as Heaven is wide
I got a song bubbling inside

Can't help singing
Of a promise that April is bringing
Oh, I am floating alongon the crest of a song
There are bells in my heart and they're ringing

Can't help crowing
Folks don't like it I know, But I'm glowing
I can't help what they say, Spring affects me this way
And I gotta keep singing all day

La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la
Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aaaaaaaaaah
Aah-aah, tra-la-la-la-la

PAIGE:
Spring makes a fellah, Spring makes a fellah hopeful
Soap makes a fellah, soap makes a fellah soapful
What is this, what is this charm music hath
Why is my voice so divine in a bath

(MALE VOICES):
(Spring grows the rhododendron and sweet hibiscus)
(Spring grows a fellahs, Spring grows a fellahs whiskers)
DURBIN:
Spring tells me love's on its way
Lucky I'm living today

Can't help singing of a promise that April is bringing
PAIGE:
When I shampoo my top there is nothing like Opry
And lather to keep my ears ringing
DURBIN:
Can't help crowing
Folks don't like it, I know, but I'm glowing
I don't care what they say, Spring affects me this way
And the lovebird I reckon sings along
PAIGE:
When I'm up to my neck in soap and suds
DURBIN:
With a hi-ho, and it's thrilling me
Hi-ho, and I really think
I gotta, I gotta , I gotta keep singing
PAIGE: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta keep singing
BOTH: All day


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2013)