Summer Songs, #2 In A Series... Something Cool

Something cool

I'd like to order something cool

It's so warm here in town & this heat gets me down

Yes, I'd like something cool

My, it's nice to simply sit & rest awhile

You know it's a shame

I can't think of your name

I remember your smile

I don't ordinarily drink with strangers

I guess I usually drink alone

But you were so awfully nice to ask me

& I'm so terribly far from home

Like my dress, I must confess it's very old

But it's simple & neat, it's just right for this heat

Save my furs for the cold

A cigarette, no I don't smoke them as a rule

But I'll have one, it might be fun with something cool



I'd bet you wouldn't imagine that I once had a house

With so many rooms you couldn't count them all

I'll bet that you couldn't imagine I had 15 different boys

Who would beg & beg to take me to a ball

& I know you couldn't picture me

The time I went to Paris in the fall

& who would think the man that I loved

Was quite so handsome & quite so tall

Well, it's through, it's just a memory I had

One I almost forgot since the weather's so hot

& I'm feeling so bad about a date, oh wait, I'm such a fool

He's just a guy who stopped to buy me something cool

Billy Barnes
1945