Button Up Your Overcoat

About Button Up Your Overcoat

"Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular song. The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1928, and was first performed later that same year by vocalist Ruth Etting. However, the most famous rendition of this song was recorded early the following year by singer Helen Kane, who was at the peak of her popularity at the time. Kane's childlike voice and Bronx dialect eventually became the inspiration for the voice of cartoon character Betty Boop (most famously using Kane's famous catchphrase Boop Boop a Doop). From January 9, 1929 to December 21, 1929 Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal sang "Button Up Your Overcoat" on Broadway in the musical Follow Thru. They reprised the song in the film version which opened on September 27, 1930 which was also one of the first movies in Technicolor. more »

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Listen, big boy, 
Now that you got me made, 
Goodness, but I'm afraid, 
Somethin's gonna happen to you! 
Listen, big boy, 
You gotta be hooked, and how, 
I would die if I should lose you now! 

Button up your overcoat, 
When the wind is free, 
Take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 

Eat an apple every day, 
Get to bed by three, 
Oh, take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 

Be careful crossing streets, ooh-ooh, 
Cut out sweets, ooh-ooh, 
Lay off meat, ooh-ooh, 
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum! 

Wear your flannel underwear, 
When you climb a tree, 
Oh, take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 

Button up your overcoat, 
When the wind is free, 
Oh, take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 
Boop-boop-a-doop! 

When you sass a traffic cop, 
Use diplomacy; 
Just take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 

Beware of frozen ponds, ooh-ooh, 
Stocks and bonds, ooh-ooh, 
Peroxide blonds, ooh-ooh, 
You'll get a pain and ruin your bankroll! 

Keep the spoon out of your cup, 
When you're drinking tea, 
Oh, take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me! 

Don't sit on hornet's tails, ooh-ooh! 
Or on nails, ooh-ooh! 
Or third rails, ooh-ooh! 
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum! 

Keep away from bootleg hooch 
When you're on a spree, 
Oh, take good care of yourself, 
You belong to me!

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Helen Kane

Helen Kane (August 4, 1904, – September 26, 1966) was an American popular singer; her signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Kane's voice and appearance were a likely source for Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick when creating Betty Boop, although It-girl Clara Bow is another possible influence. more »

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