A Good Old Fashioned Cocktail (With A Good Old Fashioned Gal)

Written for: Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Performer: Ruby Keeler & Studio Chorus
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Verse:

Modern living is surely giving us too much speed to last,
We eat and drink and live too fast.
You'll discover that I'm a lover of good old fashioned ways,
Let's harken back to bygone days;

Chorus:

If you're feeling kind of lonely
And you feel you need a pal,
Have a good old fashioned cocktail
With a good old fashioned gal.
While you tell her of your travels
'Round the Panama Canal,
Have a good old fashioned cocktail
With a good old fashioned gal.
And though it's great and up-to-date
To liquidate your liquor straight,
It's more sedate to get, "Hey, hey,"
The good old fashioned way.
You can cry upon her shoulder,
Sing about your old gal Sal;
Have a good old fashioned cocktail
With a good old fashioned gal.