Louis Armstrong - Baby, It’s Cold Outside lyrics

As recorded live with velma middleton 1949 (louis in parenthesis)<br><br>I really can't stay<br>(mama, it's cold outside)<br>I've got to go way<br>(I said, it's cold outside)<br>I wish I knew how<br>(tickled to death that you dropped in)<br>To break this spell<br>(you better break that spell..a-vo-tu)<br>My mother will start to worry<br>(mama, what's your hurry)<br>Father will be pacin' the floor<br>(he's gotta go...he's gotta go)<br>Really I'd better hurry<br>(please don't hurry)<br>Well maybe just a half a drink more<br>**(take some 'swiss kriss' while I pour)<br>The neighbors might think<br>(mama, it's bad out there)<br>Hey pops, what's in this drink<br>(ain't no fun to be had out there, you know)<br>This evenin' has been<br>( it is outta here.....)<br>So nice and fine<br>(take another drink-a-wine...and<br>Maybe you'll change your mind)<br>I ought to say no, no, no, sir<br>(you don't have to call me sir)<br>At least I'm gonna say that I tried<br>(give it up...give it up...give it up)<br>I really can't stay<br>(and, don't hold out)<br>*both* ahh, but it's cold outside<br><br>(look-a there honey...look at that window there...you can't go<br>Out there in all that bad weather take a look...............you lookin'<br>At the wrong window anyway...........that's a bay window there........<br>See the one that's in the middle there.......yeah the one that's boarded<br>Up...that's an out house there..........ain't no usein you goin out there<br>In all that bad weather...gettin' them two little skis all frosted up)<br>Yeah well pops, I didn't tell mama and papa where I was goin<br>(you did what)<br>In fact, I sneaked outta the house<br>(oh, velma, don't never do that to your mama and papa......stay here<br>Three more days then you go back home to your people there)<br>There's bound to be talk tommorow<br>(what about my sorrow)<br>At least there will be plenty implied<br>(yeah, you tellin' me)<br>I really can't stay<br>(an-bol-eh-do-as)<br>*both* ahh but it's cold outside<br><br>Hey pops, I'd really like to stick around<br>(yeah I wish you would)<br>But I live so far...i live way over on the other side of town....over in<br>The aristocratic part...way over........................<br>(where would that be honey)<br>Over on jackson street<br>(she been in town two hours and she done found out where<br>Jackson street is.....................yes indeed folks this is the place.....<br>You know where you can get two drinks for forty cents here......then you<br>Come outta the gate and fall flat-a-your face.....that's what you do)<br>(yeah your shoes are loosey...and let's get juicy)<br>*both* yeah, but it? s cold<br>(bah-da-da-dat) outside<br>(bah-ba-da-do-de-da-da-day)