Written by: Cole Porter
With Kate Smith
From the Album: Suddenly It's Spring
From the Show: Anything Goes (1934)
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You're the top! You're the
coliseum! You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum!
You're a melody from a symphony
by Strauss,
You're a Bendel bonnet, a
Shakespeare sonnet, you're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile, you're the
Tower of Pisa, you're the smile on the Mona Lisa;
I'm a worthless check, a total
wreck, a flop,
But if baby, I'm the bottom,
you're the top!
Another version, is a joyous
delightful duet with Kate Smith(?)
(from the CD Suddenly It's
Spring)
[You're the top! You're the
coliseum! You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum!]
You're a melody from a symphony
by Strauss,
You're a Bendel bonnet, a
Shakespeare sonnet, [you're Mickey Mouse!]
[You're the Nile, you're the
Tower of Pisa], you're the smile on the Mona Lisa;
[I'm a worthless check], a total
wreck, [a flop],
<But if baby, I'm the bottom,
you're the top!>
[You're the top! You're Mahatma
Gandhi!]
You're the top! You're Napoleon
Brandy!
[You're the purple light of a
summer night in Spain!]
[You're the National Gallery,
you're Crosby's salary!]
You're cellophane! You're sublime, you're a turkey dinner!
[You're the time of the Derby
winner!]
I'm a toy balloon that's fated
soon to pop!
[But if baby, I'm the bottom]
no, if baby, I'm the bottom,
<But if baby I'm the bottom,
you're the top!>