Casino De Paree

Written for: Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Performer: Al Jolson
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Sheet music version:

Verse:

The pleasure loving Yankee,
Though he's not so very swanky,
He's a mellow, jolly good fellow.
No matter where he'll meet you,
He will get right up and greet you
With a, "Hello, what'll ya have?"
Look around, you'll find him here,
He likes this Continental atmosphere;
Let's all sit down
And really go to town.

Chorus:

Order a bottle of vino, made in Italy,
At the Casino de Paree.
Drink with a widow from Reno, who is fancy-free,
At the Casino de Paree.
See a Broadway Gypsy
Dancing with a tipsy
Papa from Poughkeepsie;
Go get a beautiful hostess just for company;
Anything you do, so will she,
At the Casino de Paree.

Movie version:

Verse:

Good evening all you localites
And all you gay suburbanites,
How be ya, happy to see ya!
Tonight we're gonna offer you
A rather novel and a new
Idea in a revue.
We will start our hippodrome,
But still we want you all to feel at home.
Let's all sit down
And really go to town,
Hey!

Chorus 1:

Order a bottle of vino, made in Italy,
At the Casino de Paree.
Flirt with a widow from Reno, who is fancy-free,
At the Casino de Paree.
See a Broadway Gypsy
Dancing with a tipsy
Papa from Poughkeepsie;
Go get a beautiful hostess just for company,
And when you get one, get one for me,
At the Casino de Paree.

Chorus 2:

Order a bottle of vino, made in Italy,
At the Casino de Paree.
Flirt with a widow from Reno, who is fancy-free,
At the Casino de Paree.
See a Broadway Gypsy
Dancing with a tipsy
Papa from Poughkeepsie;
Go get a beautiful hostess just for company,
And when you get 'er, get one for me,
At the Casino de Paree.