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Ella Fitzgerald
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At words poetic I'm so pathetic
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That I always have found it best
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Instead of getting 'em off my chest,
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To let 'em rest - unexpressed.
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I hate parading my serenading,
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As I'll probably miss a bar,
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But if this ditty is not so pretty,
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At least it'll tell you how great you are.
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You're the top! You're the Colosseum.
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You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum.
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You're the melody from a symphony by Strauss!
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You're a Bendel bonnet,
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a Shakespeare Sonnet,
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you're Mickey Mouse!
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You're the Nile! You're the Tow'r of Pisa.
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You're the smile, on the Mona Lisa!
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I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop!
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But if baby I'm the bottom,
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you're the top!
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You're the top! You're Mahatma Gandhi.
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You're the top! You're Napoleon brandy.
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You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain.
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You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary,
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you're cellophane!
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You're sublime. You're a turkey dinner.
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You're the time of a Derby Winner.
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I'm a toy balloon that's fated soon to pop!
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But if baby I'm the bottom,
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you're the top!
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You're the top! You're a Waldorf salad.
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You're the top! You're a Berlin ballad.
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You're the nimble tread of the feet of Fred Astaire.
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You're an O'Neal drama, you're Whistler's mama, you're Camembert!
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You're a rose. You're inferno's Dante.
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You're the nose on the great Durante.
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I'm a lazy lout who is just about to stop.
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But if baby I'm the bottom,
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you're the top!
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