Testi Soundtracks :: I

VERONICA & the QUARTET:

In the evening by the moonlight, you should drop,

you folks should drop down to the old barbershop.



VERONICA:

Old barbershop...

down in the great big rathskeller

where a swell colored fella,

by the name of Bill Jefferson Lord



QUARTET: played the piano while he'd sing a song

VERONICA: Mmm-mmm.

QUARTET: He just sang and played the whole night long.



VERONICA:

Till...one night a starry-eyed lady

they call lovable Sadie heard him playing that barbershop chord.



QUARTET: When he finished Sadie drew a sigh.

QUARTET: Everytime that she would catch his eye she'd cry...

VERONICA: Mr. Jefferson Lord.

QUARTET: Ooh-wah

VERONICA: play the barbershop chord

QUARTET: Ooh-wah

VERONICA: that soothing harmony

QUARTET: Ba da da da

VERONICA: it makes an

ALL 5: awful, awful, awful hit with me.

VERONICA: Play that strain

QUARTET: Ahhh

VERONICA: just to please me again

QUARTET: ahhh



VERONICA:

'Cause, Mister, when you start that minor part,

I feel your fingers slippin' and a-grippin' my heart.



QUARTET: Oh, Mr. Lord.

ALL 5: Play the barbershop chord

GUY from QUARTET: Mr. Jefferson Lord

VERONICA: Thomas Jefferson Lord

GUY from QUARTET: play that barbershop chord

VERONICA: play the barbershop chord

QUARTET: that soothing harmony

VERONICA: sweet harmony

ALL 5: makes a terrible, terrible, terrible

QUARTET: terr-boo-hoo-hoo-hoo (this is said while Veronica is still singing terrible)

VERONICA: hit with me.

QUARTET: Play that strain

VERONICA: Play that strain

QUARTET: just to please me again



VERONICA:

just to please me again.

'Cause, Mister, when you start that minor part,

I feel your fingers slippin' and a-grippin' my heart.