A Shine On Your Shoes
Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz
Verse:
Don't you be a good for nothin', Never 'mount to nothin',
Hanin' round the corners! Can't you see you never be gettin' anywhere.
If you want to get employment, Tidy up your faces and amount to sumthin',
Those big men who got up there all declare:
When there's a shine on your shoes, there's a melody
in your heart,
With a singable happy feeling, a wonderful way to start
to face the
World ev'ry day, with a "dee-dle-um-dee-di-di".
Little melody that is making the worrying world go by.
When you walk down the street, with a happy-go-lucky
beat,
You'll find a lot in what I'm repeating.
When there's a shine on your shoes, there's a melody
in your heart,
What a wonderful way to start the day.
(patter)
There's the shine that you get in the barber shop,
While the barber's going "ziggy ziggy zig" with his strop!
There's the shine that you get in the pullman car,
While the train is going, "chuggy-chuggy-chuggy-chuggy-chug"; going far
away!
There's the shine that you get on the ferry boat,
While the water's going "wishy-washy-wishy-washy-wishy-washy-woo!"
But it doesn't matter where you get it, It'll do a lot of good if you let
it;
A little bit of polish will abolish what's bothering you.