I'LL EAT MY HAT
>From the film "Swing Hostess" (1944)
(Jay Livingston / Ray Evans)


Martha Tilton (Film Soundtrack) - 1944


This may be a Paris creation
Still, to me it's no sensation
I'll design my hat as I want it
Make me a bonnet, patriotic and exotic

I'd take this, I'd take that
Make a pretty little, pretty little hat
What I mean, use my bean
Make my hat look keen

First I take a vase for a dash of colour
What a pretty place for a sugar crawler
Feather on the crown, trim it all around
Arty and smarty and brand new party 

Grand is my plan
Using ev'ry little vittel that I can
Though it's cheap and unique
Don't you think it's chic

Take a bunch of grapes, let 'em hang right on it
Make it in the shape of an Easter bonnet
Try a piece of screen, for the net, I mean
Grove, improve it, but at the show remove it

Gee, that's for me
Need my pretty little, pretty little fricassee
Took each bit that would fit
Now my hat's a hit

So, Hedda Hopper and Carmen Miranda
I've got a topper that couldn't be grander
If this creation doesn't knock 'em flat
Oh brother, I'll eat my hat



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2016)