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A Little Bungalow

Lyrics and Music by Irving Berlin

If you told me that I'm the lucky young man
From that moment I'd know my future began
I'd get busy attending to the happy ending
Let me tell you about my wonderful plan

If you're anxious to make me part of your plan
I'm quite ready to tell the world that you can
If the plan that you're laying just needs my okaying
Don't let anyone try to stop you, young man

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A little bungalow, an hour or so from anywhere
A little cozy nest, the kind that's best for two
Among the shady trees with birds and bees and lots of air
And just enough o'ground to fool around with you

Away from all the crowds we'll watch the clouds go drifting by
And when the moon above presents a lovely view
There'll be a room in blue, the one that you would occupy
It's understood that I would occupy it too

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In the preview-length print of The Cocoanuts, Groucho sang this number while courting Margaret Dumont. In the play it had been "the inevitable duet" (according to Alexander Woollcott), sang by characters Polly Potter and Robert Adams but Woollcott also found it "clever, insidious, engaging".

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