I Get A Kick Out Of You

Written by: Cole Porter

Arranged By: Nelson Riddle – Neal Hefti – Billy May – Nelson Riddle

Album Title: The Very Good Years

Live In Australia with the Red Norvo Quintet

From the Show: Anything Goes (1934)

Label: Capitol – Reprise – Reprise – Reprise

Recorded: 11/6/53 – 4/10/62 – 6/5/62 – 10/13/74

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My story is much too sad to be told,

But practically everything leaves me totally cold.

The exception I know is the case

When I'm out on a quiet spree,

Fighting vainly the old ennui,

And I suddenly turn and see your fabulous face.

I get no kick from champagne.

Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.

So tell me why should it be true

That I get a kick out of you?

Some, they may go for cocaine.

I'm sure that if I took even one sniff

It would bore me terrifically, too.

Yet I get a kick out of you.

I get a kick every time I see

You standing there before me.

I get a kick though it's clear to see

You obviously do not adore me.

I get no kick in a plane.

Flying too high with some gal in the sky

Is my idea of nothing to do.

Yet I get a kick - um you give me a boot - I get a kick out of you.