Irving Berlin llived to be a hundred. One hundred and one, to be precise, and all those years he wrote more than 800 songs; Alexander’s Rag Time Band, God Bless America, and White Christmas, to name a few. Less noticed in Berlin's portfolio is a beautiful song of love and marriage from the musicale Annie Get your Gun.
The girl that I marry will have to be
As soft and as pink as a nursery
The girl I call my own
Will wear satin and laces and smell of cologne
Her nails will be polished
And in her hair she'll wear a gardenia
And I'll be there
Instead of flittin', I'll be sittin'
Next to her I'm cheerful like a kitten
A doll I can carry,
The girl that I marry must be.
Instead of flittin', I'll be sittin'
Next to her I'm cheerful like a kitten
A doll I can carry,
The girl that I marry must be
PHOTO by Andy961: WSHS Theatre Presents Annie Get Your Gun "An Old Fashioned Wedding" Act II Scene 2
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