Paducah

Written for: The Gang's All Here (1943)
Lyric: Leo Robin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1943
Original publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation, rights controlled by Triangle Music Corporation

Verse:

If you could see a certain town down south,
I'll bet you fifteen cents you'd holler, "Shut my mouth!"
I'm not exaggeratin' when I say:
There's not a sweeter town in all the U. S. A.;
I know an awful lot of people claim
It has a funny name, but, brother, just the same;
They can't frown
On my home town;

Chorus:

Paducah, Paducah, if you wanna, you can rhyme it with bazooka,
But you can't pooh-pooh Paducah,
That's another name for paradise.
Paducah, Paducah, just a pretty little city in Kentucky,
But to me it rhymes with lucky,
When I'm lookin' into two blue eyes.
Tulip time, they get excited over tulip time,
But I'm delighted over julep time,
Because I happen to love
A resident of:
Paducah, Paducah, if you wanna, you can rhyme it with bazooka,
But you can't pooh-pooh Paducah,
That's another name for paradise.