"Let's Do It" COLE PORTER (Midnight in Paris)

Cole Porter (1891-1964) composed "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" in 1928 for Porter's first Broadway success, the musical Paris (1928). The song was introduced by French chanteuse Irène Bordoni for whom Porter had written the musical as a starring vehicle.

You will notice that some of the original lyrics are not used anymore. One of Porter's clever puns that most people do not get nowadays, is that people from Lithuania are called Lithuanians, however people from Latvia are not always called Latvians; they can be called Letts. Now you can understand the lyric "Lituanians and Letts do it, let's do it, let's fall in love.,

Here the original lyrics are written on the right hand corner of the music partiture...



But click here to LISTEN to the lyrics being sang

When the little bluebird
Who has never said a word
Starts to sing Spring
When the little bluebell
At the bottom of the dell
Starts to ring Ding dong Ding dong
When the little blue clerk
In the middle of his work
Starts a tune to the moon up above
It is nature that is all
Simply telling us to fall in love

And that's why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

I've heard that lizards and frogs do it
Layin' on a rock
They say that roosters do it
With a doodle and cock

Some Argentines, without means do it

I hear even Boston beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

When the little bluebird
Who has never said a word
starts to sing Spring spring spring
When the little bluebell
At the bottom of the dell
Starts to ring Ding ding ding
When the little blue clerk
In the middle of his work
Starts a tune

The most refined lady bugs do it
When a gentleman calls
Moths in your rugs they do it
What's the use of moth balls

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it,
Some courageous kangaroos do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

I'm sure sometimes on the sly you do it
Maybe even you and I might do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

"Midnight in Paris", Film by Woody Allen