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First Song-Nice Work If You Can Get It

The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show · 1962 · 20 min · 1,820 words

The transcript of “First Song-Nice Work If You Can Get It”, an episode of The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show from 1962. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show plays The Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney Show free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Thanks, Joel. Rosie, we begin here another day's toil, you might say. This is toil? I stand corrected hardly toil. It's sort of fun, isn't it? Got to be fun. Will you start the jolly proceedings?

Gladly. Oh, joy. The star is sky. Nice work if you can get it. And you can get it if you try. Strolling with sigh and 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? And you can get it if you try Nice work if you can get it

And you can get it if you try It's 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? Love and nice work if you can get it And if you get it, won't be hard You know folks when you utter the cry, soup song in this country it means business.

Business? Yeah, about $500 million worth of business per year. Think of that $500 million worth of soup song. That's the word straight from Clementine, paddle forward. And believe me, there's a lady who knows how much we're eating, what we're eating and how much it costs and how to make it.

Well, soup is no trouble at all these days. Just open up a can or open an envelope and add some water and stir it up and there you are. Oh yeah, these dried soup mixes are really caught on, haven't they?

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