I Don'T Want To Play In Your Yard
Joan Morris & William Bolcom
2:50When Louis came home to the flat He hung up his coat and his hat He gazed all around but no wifey he found So he said "Where can Flossie be at?" A note on the table he spied He read it just once then he cried It read "Louis, dear, it's too slow for me here So I think I will go for a ride" "Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair Don't tell me the lights are shining any place but there We will dance the Hoochie Coochie I will be your Tootsie Wootsie If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair" The dresses that hung in the hall Were gone, she had taken them all She took all his rings and the rest of his things The picture he'd missed from the wall But moving, the janitor said "Your rent is paid three months ahead" "What good is the flat?" said poor Louis, "Read that" And the janitor smiled as he read "Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair Don't tell me the lights are shining any place but there We will dance the Hoochie Coochie I will be your Tootsie Wootsie If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair"