Karaoké Ring Them Bells Liza Minnelli

Gather around I've got a story to tell

About a Manhattan lady that

I know very well

She lives at five riverside her name is Shirley Devore

And she traveled 'round the world to meet the guy next door

Well there was trouble inside apartment twenty-nine E

'Cos Shirley's mother and dad were as upset as can be

They said we hate to complain dear and we don't like to grouse

But your nearly thirty-two you should get out of the house

You gotta ring them bells you gotta ring them bells

You gotta make 'em sing and really ring them bells

It's such a happy thing to hear 'em ting a ling you gotta ring them bells

Well Shirley was thirty-one which she was loathe to admit

And she had never been loved which didn't thrill her a bit

And so she sat and she thought she thought for hours on end

And said I'll go to chase Manhattan where I got me a friend

And so she borrowed a thou' and called TWA

And told her mother and dad that she was up and away

I'm gonna travel the continent a month maybe two

And haul me home a hus' if it's the last thing I do

You gotta ring them bells you gotta ring them bells

You gotta make 'em sing and really ring them bells

It's such a happy thing to hear 'em ting a ling you gotta ring them bells

She met a Londoner first but they did not hit it off

'Cos every time she approached he got a bronchial cough

And so she went to Madrid and met a handsome Senior

But he liked to throw the bull and he was no matador

She also bombed out in

Brussells in Mallorca and Rome

'Till someone said try Dubrovnik dear before you go home

'Cos it's the kind of a town where you'll be likely to fall

And all the Toni Cognoscenti find the Balkans a ball

You gotta ring them bells you gotta ring them bells

You gotta make 'em sing and really ring them bells

It's such a happy thing to hear 'em ting a ling you gotta ring them bells

And so she went to Dubrovnik and the very first day

She met a guy on the beach who took her reason away

Yes it was love at first sight and quite a beautiful scene

She said my name is Shirl Devore he said I'm Norm Saperstein

She said are you from New York? he said that can't be denied

I've got a swell junior three at number five riverside five?

Five riverside Drive in New York? that's where you live?

That's that's where I live five? are you sure?

As if that wasn't enough for Shirley thought she'd gone deaf

When he told her his apartment there was twenty-nine F

Yes she was E he was F and they had not even met

Until she traveled the world to Yugoslavia yet

He'd always been right next door

And she would never have known

If she hadn't tried Dubrovnik she might still be alone

Well there's a moral to learn from little Shirley Devore

Who had to borrow a thou' to find a lover next door

You girls who live in apartments don't just stare at the wall

Open up the door and hurry out in the hall

And oh ring them bells come on come on ring them bells

Make 'em sing you'd better ring the bells

It's such a happy thing to hear 'em ting a ling

You gotta swing them ring them swing them

Ring them bells