When you're feeling like expressing your affection For someone night and day, Take up the 'phone and ask for your connection, We'll give it right away. Eve or Adam, anyone you ask for We'll find somehow. Sir or Madam, if you get a taste for Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Enter any telephone kiosk O, Have your say, Press button A, Here's your number now.
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Text Authorship:
- possibly by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "When you're feeling like expressing your affection", 1935/6, published 1994 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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