Doing What Comes Naturally - Freddy Martin

Doin' What Comes Natur'lly

 

Written by: Irving Berlin
First performance: Doin' What Comes Natur'lly by Ethel Merman & Art Barnett in stage production Annie Get Your Gun (May 16, 1946)

Doing What Comes Naturally Lyrics

Folks are dumb where I come from,
They ain't had any learning.
Still they're happy as can be
Doin' what comes naturally

Folks like us could never fuss
With schools and books and learning.
Still we've gone from A to Z,
Doin' what comes naturally

You don't have to know how to read or write
When you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight.
You don't have to look in a book to find out
What he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind.
That comes naturally

My uncle out in Texas
Can't even write his name
He signs his checks with "X's"
But they cash 'em just the same

Uncle Ben got angry when
They caught him stealing chickens
I'm within my rights, said he
Doin' what comes natur'lly
Cousin Jack insured his shack
And now he plays with matches
He'll collect, just wait and see
Doin' what comes naturally

Sister Sal who's musical has never had a lesson,
Still she's learned to sing off-key
Doin' what comes naturally
You don't have to go to a private school
Not to turn up your bus into a stuburn new
You don't have to have a professor's dome
Not to go for the honey when the bees at home
That comes naturally

My uncle don't pay taxes
His address never gives
They can't collect his taxes
For they don't know where he lives

Grandpa Dick was always sick
But never saw a doctor
He just died at 93
Doin' what comes naturally

Doing What Comes Naturally Singers

1. Ethel Merman & Art Barnett May 16, 1946 (performance date) 2. Ethel Merman 1946 3. Dinah shore (billboard hit) 1946
4. Freddy Martin (billboard hit 1946) 1946


5. Betty Hutton 1950 6. Mary Martin and Female Chorus 1957 7. The Four Lads with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra 1958 8. Doris Day February 11, 1963 9. Ronn Carroll, Bernadette Peters 1999.

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