WHEE BABY
(Alice Larson / Peggy Lee)

as recorded by June Christy
with orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo
1958


I read an old fairy story, whee baby, couldn't put it down!
There was a man named Aladdin, he had the greatest lamp in town!
And with the lamp was a genie, whee baby, what that guy could do!
I says, "Hey gen'e you're terrific, just bring the lamp and I'm with you!".
The lamp belonged to Aladdin, that's what the genie said;
I said, "Ah, he wouldn't miss it", I guess I lost my head!

I saw an oil well in Texas, whee baby, just imagine that!
I saw my name on the oil well, whee baby, bought a stetson hat!
I bought a real fancy mansion, whee baby, cost a lot of dough!
It had a real marble bathtub, whee baby, where that genie go?
Whee baby, what that guy could do!
Whee bay, genie I'm with you!

You know I talked to that genie, whee baby, what a thing to do!
I says, "If you'll leave Aladdin, I'll get you in the movies too!".
He got a call from aladdin, he left me in a puff of smoke;
And then, you know somethin' funny, whee baby, dill I wound up broke!
There he goes,
There he goes,
Whee baby, there he goes!
Whee baby,
Whee baby,
Whee...



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - August 2014)