YOU’RE THE TOP - Anita O'Day

That I always have found it best,\nInstead of getting 'em off my chest,\nTo let 'em rest unexpressed\nI hate parading my serenading\nAs I’ll probably miss a bar,\nBut if this ditty is not so pretty,\nAt least it’ll tell you how great you are.\nYou’re the top! You’re the colosseum,\nYou’re the top! You’re the louvre museum,\nYou’re a melody from a symphony by strauss,\nYou’re a bendel bonnet, a shakespeart sonnet,\nYou’re mickey mouse\nYou’re the nile, you’re the tow’r of pisa,\nYou’re the smile on the mona lisa.\nI’m a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top!\nYour words poetic are not pathetic\nOn the other hand, boy, you shine\nAnd I can feel after every line\nA thrill divine down my spine\nNow gifted humans like vincent youmans\nMight think that your song is bad,\nBut for a person who’s just rehearsin'\nWell I gotta say this my lad:\nYou’re the top! You’re mahatma ghandi.\nYou’re the top! You’re napolean brandy.\nYou’re the purple light of a summer night in spain,\nYou’re the national gall’ry, you’re garbo’s sal’ry,\nYou’re cellophane\nYou’re sublime, you’re a turkey dinner.\nYou’re the time of the derby winner.\nI’m a toy balloon that is fated soon to pop.\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top!\nYou’re the top! You’re a ritz hot toddy.\nYou’re the top! You’re a brewster body.\nYou’re the boats that glide on the sleepy zuider zee,\nYou’re a nathan panning, you’re bishop manning,\nYou’re broccoli\nYou’re a prize, you’re a night at coney,\nYou’re the eyes of irene bordoni,\nI’m a broken doll, a fol-de-rol, a blop,\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top\nYou’re the top! You’re an arrow collar.\nYou’re the top! You’re a coolidge dollar.\nYou’re the nimble tread of the feet of fred astaire,\nYou’re an o’neill drama, you’re whistler’s mama,\nYou’re camembert\nYou’re a rose, you’re inferno’s dante,\nYou’re the nost of the great durante.\nI’m just in the way, as the french would say\n«De trop,»\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top\nYou’re the top! You’re a waldorf salad.\nYou’re the top! You’re a berlin ballad.\nYou’re a baby grand of a lady and a gent.\nYou’re an old dutch master, you’re mrs. Aster,\nYou’re pepsodent\nYou’re romance, you’re the steppes of russia,\nYou’re the pants on a roxy usher.\nI’m a lazy lout that’s just about to stop,\nBut if baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top!\nYou’re the top! You’re a dance in bali.\nYou’re the top! You’re a hot tamale.\nYou’re an angel, you simply too, too, too diveen,\nYou’re a botticelli, you’re keats, you’re shelley,\nYou’re ovaltine\nYou’re a boon, you’re the dam at boulder,\nYou’re the moon over mae west’s shoulder.\nI’m a nominee of the g.o.p. Or gop,\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top!\nYou’re the top! You’re the tower of babel.\nYou’re the top! You’re the whitney stable.\nBy the river rhine, you’re a sturdy stein of beer,\nYou’re a dress from saks’s, you’re next year’s taxes,'\nYou’re stratosphere.\nYou’re my thoist, you’re a drumstick lipstick,\nYou’re da foist in da irish svipstick,\nI’m a frightened frog that can find no log to hop,\nBut if, baby, I’m the bottom,\nYou’re the top!