Hilda Matilda

Written for: Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Performer: Esther Williams (OUT-TAKE)
Lyric: Ralph Blane
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1951
Original publisher: Harry Warren Music, Inc.

Chorus:

Hilda Matilda is happy as a little thrush,
When you have problems, she gives them the brush.
Turn on the current and watch her sweep away the gloom;
She'll go a-flittin' all around the room,
Purr like a kitten though she's a broom!
When you're unhappy and ev'rything is going wrong,
Hilda Matilda will sing you this song:
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-die-dum,
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-aye.
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-die-dum,
And that's why I say:
Who gives a hoot if the clouds are all gray?
Hilda Matilda will brush them away.
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-die-dum,
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-aye.
Diddle-lum, diddle-eye-die-dum.
She'll brush them away.