Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet - The Andrews Sisters

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Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet

Johnny Fedora met Alice Blue Bonnet

in the window of a department store.

Twas love at first sight, and they promised one night

They’d be sweethearts forever more.

Johnny would serenade Alice.

Tooralay, tooralie, tooraloo.

He sang of a beautiful palace,

Of a beautiful hat box for two.

But Johnny Fedora lost Alice Blue Bonnet to a patron of the department store

Her beauty was sought by

the girl she was bought by for $ 23.94.

Johnny, oh Johnny, your Alice Blue Bonnet

Will always be waiting for you.

So don’t give up hoping and don’t give up dreaming,

For true love will come smiling through.

Johnny Fedora was lonely and stranded

In the window of the department store.

When low and behold he was suddenly sold.

And his heart became gay once more.

Johnny sang out like a robin.

Tooralay, tooralie, tooraloo.

To strangers he’d come up a bobbin.

I thought you were someone I knew.

He looked for her uptown and cross town

and downtown

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Jersey

shore.

When it all seemed in vain,

Johnny heard the refrain of the song

Alice sang of yore.

Johnny, oh Johnny, your Alice Blue

Bonnet.

Will always be waiting for you.

So don’t give up hoping and don’t give

up dreaming,

For true love will come smiling through.