Standing On The Corner

Words & Music by Frank Loesser
Recorded by The Four Lads, 1956
From the movie "The Most Happy Fella"


G             G/B    CM7              Cdim     G  Bb Edim  D7
Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by

G             G/B    CM7              Am   Gdim D  Am7 D9 D7
Standing on a corner watching all the girls go  by

D/F#         G           B7         C      C/B    
Brother you don't know a nicer occupation

          F    Cm7            D  Am7 D7
Matter of fact,    neither do I

D7+5   G           G/B    CM7              Am7
Than standing on a corner watching all the girls

Cm7               G    
Watching all the girls, 

Em6               Am7  A7 D7  Am7  G  Am7  C7  B7
Watching all the girls         go by.          


Interlude 1:

Em      Am7 Em               Am7
I'm the cat    that got the cream

Em      Am7        Em            Am7
Haven't got a girl    but I can dream

G       Em         G          Edim
Haven't got a girl  but I can wish

Cdim       G               Bb
 So  I'll take me down to Main street

     G              Bm7-5 A7       G       G/F#     Am7 D7 Am7alt D7
And that's where I select my im - ag - in - ar - y dish


Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by
Standing on a corner giving all the girls the eye
Brother if you've got a rich imagination
Give it a whirl, give it a try
Try standing on a corner watching all the girls.
Watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by.


Interlude 2:

Saturday and I'm so broke
Couldn't buy a gal a nickel coke.
Still I'm livin' like a millionaire
When I take me down to Main Street
And I survey the harem parading for me there.


Standing on a corner watching all the girls go by,
Standing on a corner giving all the girls the eye.
Brother you can't go to jail for what you're thinking,
Or for that woo look in your eye;
You're only standing on the corner watching all the girls,
Watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by.


I am not sure if I have all the lyrics here, or if I have them in the right sequence. I used to sing with a men's chorus that performed this song, and I constantly confused their arrangement with the classic Four Lads' rendition to the point that I no longer can remember which was which.


 
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