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I'm Old Fashoned
Words & Music by Johnny Mercer & Jerome KernRecorded by Fred Astaire & Nan Wynn*, 1942
From the movie "You Were Never Lovelier"
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I am not such a clever one about the latest fads;
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I admit I was never one adored by local lads.
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Not that I ever try to be saint;
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I'm the type that they classify as quaint.
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Quaint that they mother you, quaint that they brother you,
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Must be another you, I like the other you.
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I'm old fashioned, I love the moonlight,
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I love the old fashioned things;
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The sound of rain upon a window pane,
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The starry song that A - pril sings.
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This year's fancies are pass - ing fan - cies,
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But sighing sighs, holding hands -- these my heart understands.
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I'm old fashioned, but I don't mind it;
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That's how I want to be,
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As long as you agree to stay old fashioned with me.
*Studio president Harry Cohn insisted that Wynn dub vocals for Rita Hayworth, the female lead in the movie -- though I've yet to find any conslusive statement as to why he felt it necessary, because Hayworth had a decent-enough voice on her own. Astaire recorded the song a year later as a solo, omitting the intro and his lone, two-line response to Wynn/Hayworth's intro to the melody.
**Suggested by a recent visitor who declined to be identified.