One For My Baby

One for My Baby - June Valli

It's quarter to three

There's no one in

The place except you and me

So set them up Joe

I've got a little story

You oughta know

We're drinkin' my friend

To the end of a brief episode

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road

I got the routine

So drop another nickel

In the machine

I'm feelin' so bad

I wish you'd make

The music dreamy and sad

Could tell you a lot

But you've gotta'

Be true to your code

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road

You'd never know it

But buddy I'm a kind of poet

And I've got a lot of things to say

And when I'm gloomy

You simply gotta listen to me

Until it's all talked away

Well that's how it goes

And Joe I know you're

Gettin' anxious to close

So thanks for the cheer

I hope you didn't mind

My bending your ear

This torch that I've found

Must be drowned or

It soon might explode

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road

The long long road

Set my enjoy