If You Feel Like Singing, Sing (Unpublished edition with Verse)

Written for: Summer Stock (1950)
Lyric: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1949
Original publisher: Harry Warren Music, Inc., rights controlled by Miller Music Corporation

Verse:

Good morning, Mister Tweet-Tweet, how are you?
You whistle in your shower, with your coffee and your toast;
All day long and with ev'rything you do.
Philosophically, I like your point of view.

Chorus 1:

If you feel like singing, sing,
Tra-la-la your cares away;
There's something about giving out with a song,
Makes you belong,
Helps you to find a peace of mindful day.
If you feel like humming, hum,
Fiddle-dee, dee-da, dee-dum;
Supposin' you do-re-mi slightly off key,
Ev'ryone can't be a Bing;
Tell your friends to go places
If they start making faces,
If you feel like singing, sing.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da,
When your luck is in need of repair;
La-dee-da, don't you care?
Where you are or what time it is
Whose tune or whose rhyme it is;
And it doesn't have to be an event;
If you feel like singing,
Sing to your heart's content.

Chorus 2:

If you feel like singing, sing,
Tra-la-la your cares away;
There's something about giving out with a song,
Makes you belong,
Helps you to find a peace of mindful day.
If you feel like humming, hum,
Fiddle-dee, dee-da, dee-dum;
Just look in the mirror and do a duet,
And raise your voices aloft.
Don't move out of your dwelling
If your neighbors start yelling;
If you can't sing good, sing soft.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da,
Toss that note in your throat in the air;
La-dee-da, don't you care?
Anyone who feels chipper will
Chirp out like a whippoorwill;
And it mustn't necessarily
Be any anniversary
Or be an extra-special event;
If you feel like singing, sing,
Tra-la-la, fiddle-dee, la-dee-da;
Sing to your heart's content.