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Oh listen sister, |
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I love my mister man, |
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And I can't tell you why |
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There is no reason why I should love that man, |
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It mus' be somethin' that de angels have planned. |
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, |
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I gotta love one man till I die. |
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Can't help lovin' that man of mine. |
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Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow, |
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Tell me I'm crazy, maybe I know. |
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Can't help lovin' that man of mine |
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When he goes away, that's a rainy day, |
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And when he comes back that day is fine, |
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The sun will shine! |
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He can come home as late as can be, |
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Home without him ain't no home to me, |
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Can't help lovin' that man of mine. |
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[speaking]I, I first heard that song when Ava Gardner sang it in the movie, |
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because I had no idea that it came from a Broadway Show, |
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'cause I went to the movies long before I ever went to the theater, |
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who knew from the theater. |
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I'd go to the Loew's Kings in Flatbush, |
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every Saturday to escape into a world of fantasy and also because they had the greatest 'mellowrolls'. |
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A 'mellowroll' was this little ice-cream log, |
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a lot of you must know that, |
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wrapped in paper that sat on a cone, |
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anyway, I'll never forget, uh, when I was thirteen... |
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Some things improve with age... |
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This Friend of my named Barbara Sankell, |
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who knew that I wanted to be an actress, |
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told me about this actor named Marlon Brando, |
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who was in a movie called 'Guys and Dolls', |
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which I also didn't know that it was from a Broadway play. |
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And so I went to see it, |
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and it was truly a life altering experience, |
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seeing Marlon Brando for the first time. |
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It was the only movie that I ever sat through twice, |
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just to get to see him again and to have another 'mellowroll', |
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anyway, I'll never forget this song... |
