Straighten Up And Fly Right

My name is Lois and swing is my thing

Here's a song by Old King Cole that I'd like to sing

A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air

The monkey thought that everything was on the square

The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back

Ah but the monkey grabbed his neck and said, "Now, listen, Jack

Straighten up and fly right, straighten up and fly right

Straighten up and fly right, cool down papa, don't you blow your top

What's the use in divin'. Ain't no use in jivin'?

Straighten up and fly right, cool down papa, don't you blow your top"

Well the buzzard told the monkey, "You're choking me

Release your hold and I will set you free"

The monkey looked the buzzard right smack in the eye, he said

"Your story's mighty touching, but is sounds like a lie"

Straighten up and fly right, straighten up and do right

Straighten up and fly right, cool down papa, don't you blow your top

Yeah!

Pow!

Straighten up, straighten up

Fly right, cool down papa, don't you blow your top

Ain't no use (Ain't no use in divin')

What's the use (what's the use in jivin')

Straighten up (straighten up and fly right)

Cool down papa, don't you blow your top

The buzzard told the monkey, "You were choking me

Release your hold and I will set you free"

The monkey looked the buzzard right smack in the eye he said,

Flat foot floogie (flat foot floogie)

Flat foot floogie with the floy floy (she said flat foot floogie with the floy floy)

Oh, straighten up, you got to straighten up

Fly right, cool down papa

Cool down papa, cool down papa

Don't you blow your top

Cool down papa, don't you blow your top

Yeah!