Bobby Darin

Don’t Rain on My Parade

Written by: Bob Merrill/Jule Styne
Produced by: Bobby Darin
Arranged by: Shorty Rogers
Orchestra conducted by: Shorty Rogers
Appears on: In a Broadway Bag ~ Something Special LPs
Recorded: May 10, 1966
Released: June 1966
“What CD is this Darin song on?”

Go ahead and get it now …

Hey, world here I am!

Don't tell me not to fly

I've simply got to

If someone takes a spill

It's me and not you

Don't bring around a cloud

To rain on my parade.

Don't tell me not to live

Just sit and putter

Life's candy and the sun is

A ball of butter

Who told you you're allowed

To rain on my parade?

I'm gonna march my band out

I'll beat my drum

And if I'm fanned out

Your turn at bat, sir

Hey, at least I didn't fake it

Hat, sir, so what I didn't make it.

But, whether I'm the rose

Of sheer perfection

Or a freckle on the nose

Of life's complexion

The cinder of a shiny apple

Of its eye.

I gotta fly once

I gotta try once

Only can die once, right, sir?

Ooh … love is juicy

Juicy and you see

I gotta have my bite, sir!

So get ready for me, love

'cause I'm a "comer"

I simply gotta march

My heart's a drummer

Don't bring around a cloud

To rain on my parade!

I gotta fly once

I gotta try once

Only can die once, right, sir?

Ooh … love is juicy

Juicy and you see

I gotta have my bite, sir!

Umm … ahh … get ready for me, love

'cause I'm a "comer"

I simply gotta march

My heart's a drummer

Nobody ...

I said ... nobody ...

Nobody had better

Rain on my parade!

Yeah!

Lyrics transcribed by Marilyn Brown and Jane Penny