I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Originally from the 1934 Broadway
musical, Anything Goes (Act 1 Scene 1)
- Featuring Kim Criswell as RENO SWEENEY
- Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
(The Caprice Room, Hotel Weylin, Manhattan)
RENO:
My story is much too sad to be told,
But practically ev'rything leaves me totally cold.
The only 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 get a kick from cocaine.
I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrific'ly too
Yet I get a kick out of you.
I get a kick every time I see
You're standing there before me.
I get a kick though it's clear to me
You obviously don't adore me.
I get no kick in a plane.
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
Is my idea of - nothing to do,
Yet I get a kick out of you.
