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Irving Berlin
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A Sailor's Not a Sailor ('Til a Sailor's Been Tattooed)
As sung by Mitzi Gaynor and Ethel Merman:]
[MERMAN:]I'm an old salt [GAYNOR:]I'm a young salt [BOTH:]In the Navy we've been working very hard [MERMAN:]I was part of the Flotilla with Dewey in Manila [GAYNOR:]I'm a new recruit at the Brooklyn Navy yard
[BOTH:]Tonight we're on a spree and feeling flow'ry [BOTH:]We've got a date with gals and drink and food [GAYNOR:]Across the Brooklyn Bridge and to the Bow'ry [MERMAN:]And I'm gonna get the kid tattooed [GAYNOR:]Tattooed? [MERMAN:]Tattooed! [BOTH:]A sailor's not a sailor 'til a sailor's been tattooed
[MERMAN:] Here's an anchor from a tanker That I sailed upon when first I went to sea Here's another of my mother Takes me back to when I sat upon her knee Here's a crimson heart with a Cupid's dart Here's a Battle Cruiser and when I sit down On that, too There's a tattoo Of my home town
[GAYNOR:]To the Bow'ry [MERMAN:]To the Bow'ry [GAYNOR:]'Cross the Brooklyn Bridge and I'm just in the mood
[MERMAN:] He'll be filled with diff'rent mixtures And covered up with pictures
[GAYNOR:] I can't wait to be, 'twill be great to be tattooed
[MERMAN:]Tattooed? [GAYNOR:]Tattooed! [BOTH:]A sailor's not a sailor 'til a sailor's been tattooed
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