Tune Add: (You Gotta Have) Skin (Allan Sherman)

Subject: Tune Add: YOU GOTTA HAVE SKIN (Allan Sherman)
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 20 Nov 98 - 01:58 AM

I haven't actually heard this, but it is fairly plainly based on "You Gotta Have Heart" from Damn Yankees - circa mid 50's musical.

MIDI file: heart_nu.mid

Timebase: 120

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: F
Tempo: 135 (444444 microsec/crotchet)
Name: You Gotta Have Heart
Start
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This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

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Subject: RE: MUS ADD: You Gotta Have Skin
From: mike cahill
Date: 20 Nov 98 - 03:20 PM

I can faintly remember this song I think, It starts :- You've got to have skin, miles and miles and miles of skin. It then goes onto gorey detail about it holding things like your guts in. That is all I can remember of that one at the moment, but I remember another along the same lines that goes :-

You need skin, take good care of it, don't harm a hair of it, 'cos you need skin.

Keep it clean, soapy water every day wash the dirt and smells away, 'cos you need skin.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: SKIN (Allan Sherman)
From: Jerry & Bev
Date: 22 Nov 98 - 11:56 PM

Here are the lyrics [corrected] and chords we learned through the folk process about two years ago.

(YOU GOTTA HAVE) SKIN
Tune: (YOU GOTTA HAVE) HEART, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, from "Damn Yankees" (1955)
As recorded by Allan Sherman on "Allan in Wonderland" (1964)

  D7                   Am7-G-Am7 D7                           G-Am7-G
  You gotta have skin,              all you really need is skin,
  
  E7                                        Am7
  Skin's the thing that if you've got it outside,
  
      G                    Am7 D7     G
  It helps keep your in     sides in.
  
  D7                 Am7-G-Am7 D7                                       G-Am7-G
  It covers your nose             and it's wrapped around your toes,
  
  E7                            Am7                         G                       D#7 G
  And inside it you put lemon meringue, and outside you hang your clothes.
  
  G                                 Dm7-G7-Dm7             G7                C-Am7-C
  Skin is what you feel at home in,        and without it, furthermore,
  
                 A7               A7-Em7-A7                                  D7
  Both your liver and abdomen     would keep falling on the floor,
  
  D7            Am7                    D7
  (You'd be dressed in your intestine)
  
  D7         Am7-G-Am7  D7                          G-Am7-G
  A Siamese twin             needs an extra set of skin,
  
  E7                                      Am7
  When the doctor knows that you're feeling sick,
  
  Am7                                        G7-Am7-G7
  
  E7      Am7   D7   G-Am7-G
  In the end of your skin.
  
  G                                       Dm7-G7-Dm7 G7                                C-Am7-C
  All your friends and all your kinfolks,          whether poor or whether rich
  
               A7                    A7-Em7-A7        A7                        D7
  Oh, they all have lots of skin, folks: it's convenient when they itch,
  
  D7               Am7                     D7
  (Nothing can match it when you scratch it)
  
  D7              Am7-G-Am7  D7                                        G-Am7-G
  It fits perfectly,                yours fits you and mine fits me
  
  E7                                      Am7
  When you're sitting down, it folds and looks grand,
  
                                                G7-Am7-G7
  And then when you stand, it's where it's been,
  
  E7          Am7       D7  G-Am7-G-D7-G
  Ain't you glad you got  skin?!

When you were just a little baby, why, your skin fit fine,
And it still is gonna fit you when you're six foot nine,
So whether you're fat, tall, big, small, chubby or thin,
Ain't you glad you got skin?

Subject: RE: MUS ADD: You Gotta Have Skin
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 23 Nov 98 - 03:03 AM

The words from Jerry and Bev are much more complete than the existing lyrics in the DT. Well done.

Regards John

Subject: RE: MUS ADD: You Gotta Have Skin
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Nov 98 - 01:02 PM

This is almost Allan Sherman's masterpiece, and I am grateful to see it here. Thanks, John. ("almost" means that there are so many to choose from -- "Green Stamps" perhaps -- "Some extract of vanilla, enough to feed Godzilla; a hundred pounds of bird seed, and I don't own a bird!" -- but the Drapes of Roth, at the end of the day, surely. (see thread)

Subject: RE: Tune Add: You Gotta Have Skin (Allan Sherman)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Oct 10 - 12:13 AM

As I remember it, the line that's given above as "you ought to see where mine fits me" should be "yours fits you and mine fits me."

That's what he sang on TV anyway. Maybe the record was different.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: You Gotta Have Skin (Allan Sherman)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 08 Oct 10 - 07:17 AM

All the Allan Sherman lyrics anyone could want are available at http://dmdb.org/sherman/

Skin was on the album, Allan In Wonderland. dmbd agrees with Jim Dixon about that line, and it also has a closing stanza which has not appeared in this thread.