Sing for Your Supper

Marty Paich, Marty Paich Dek-tette, Mel Tormé

About Sing for Your Supper

"Sing for Your Supper" is an American popular song by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The song debuted in their 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse where it was done as a trio, with Muriel Angelus, Marcy Westcott, and Wynn Murray performing an arrangement specially created for the production by Hugh Martin. The lyrics describe a singer performing to earn her meals: "Sing for your supper, /And you'll get breakfast./Songbirds always eat/If their song is sweet to hear. " The song has been recorded by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (vcl. by Martha Tilton 1938), Rudy Vallée, Count Basie, Mel Tormé, Helen Humes, the Mamas & the Papas, and Cher. Author Ethan Mordden used the title for his book Sing for Your Supper: the Broadway Musical in the 1930s. 


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Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast! 
Songbirds always eat. 

If their song is sweet to hear! 
Sing for your luncheon and you'll get dinner! 
Dine with wine of choice
If romance is in your voice! 
I heard from wise Canary
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So little swallow, swallow now! 
Now is the time to
Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast
Songbirds are not dumb. 

They don't buy a crumb of bread! 
It's said, 
So sing and you'll be fed! 

I heard from wise Canary
?
So little swallow, swallow now! 
Now is time to
Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast
Songbirds are not dumb. 

They never buy a crumb of bread! 
And it's saidâ?¦
So sing and you'll be fed, oh yeah! 
Just sing and you'll be fed!

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, pianist, and actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. more »

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Written by: LORENZ HART, RICHARD RODGERS

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