"I Get A Kick Out Of You" lyrics

"I Get A Kick Out Of You"

My story is much too sad to be told,
But practically everything leaves me totally cold.
The only exception I know is the case
When I'm out on a quiet spree,
Fighting vainly the old ennui,
And I suddenly turn and see your fabulous face.

I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol
Doesn't thrill me at all.
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you?

Some—they may go for cocaine.
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
It would bore me terrifically, too.
Yet I get a kick out of you.

I get a kick every time I see
You standing there before me.
I get a kick though it's clear to see
You obviously
Do not adore me.

I get no kick in a plane.
Flying too high
With some gal in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do.
Yet I get a kick—um, you give me a boot—I get a kick out of you.


Thanks to Allen Terwilliger, HamisH, JSY Panther, JSY Panther for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Cole Porter
This song was first sung in the 1934 Broadway musical "Anything Goes".
The original lyrics had a line with the word "cocaine", which was later altered to "Some like the perfume in Spain" because of Hollywood's Production Code of 1934. Frank Sinatra recorded both version: with "cocaine" in 1953 and without in 1962.
The song was featured in the 1974 film "Blazing Saddles" under the title "I Get No Kick from Champagne".