Nice Work If You Can Get It

Frank Sinatra

Writers: Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin



Sung in the 1937 film "A Damsel In Distress" by Jan Duggan, Mary Dea, Pearl

Amatore, and Fred Astaire. Film starred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen,

and Joan Fontaine.

Charted in 1937 by Shep Fields (# 8) and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday (# 20)

Charted in 1938 by Fred Astaire (# 1); Maxine Sullivan (# 10); and The Andrews

Sisters (# 12)



Holdin' hands at midnight

'neath a starry sky

Nice work if you can get it

And you can get it if you try



Strollin' with the one girl

Sighin' sigh after sigh

Nice work if you can get it

And you can get it if you try



Just imagine someone

Waiting at the cottage door

Where two hearts become one

Who could ask for anything more?



Loving one who loves you

And then takin' that vow

Nice work if you can get it

And if you get it, won't you tell me how?



Holdin' hands at midnight

'neath a starry sky



And strollin' with the one girl

Sighing sigh after sigh



Just imagine someone

Waiting at the cottage door

Where two hearts become one

Who could ask for anything more?



Loving one who loves you

And then takin' that vow

Nice work if you can get it

And if you get it, won't you tell me how?