Lyr Req: Buddy on the Night Shift

Subject: Lyr Req: Buddy on the Night Shift
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 04:07 PM

Would like to find lyrics for this song from "Lunch Time Follies," Oscar Hammerstein II and Kurt Weill.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Buddy on the Night Shift
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 01:48 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Buddy on the Night Shift
From: JJ
Date: 20 Oct 08 - 08:55 AM

Lyrics are printed on the first Stratas LP, which I can't lay my hands on right now.

Subject: Lyr Add: BUDDY ON THE NIGHTSHIFT
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Oct 08 - 10:37 AM

Lyrics copied from http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/2000_2001/files/00000000/00000002_0010.pdf

BUDDY ON THE NIGHTSHIFT
(Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt Weill)

Hello there, buddy on the nightshift. I hope you slept all day
Until the moon came out and woke you up and sent you on your way.
Hello there, buddy on the nightshift. I hope you're feeling fine.
I left a lot of work for you to do on a long assembly line.
I wish I knew you better, but you never go my way,
For when one of us goes on the job, the other hits the hay.
Goodbye now, buddy on the nightshift, and push those planes along,
And when the sun comes out, I'll take your place, all wide awake and strong.
I'll follow you, you'll follow me, and how can we go wrong?

[Sung by Maude Maggart on "Kurt Weill in America," 2007.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Buddy on the Night Shift
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Oct 08 - 02:03 PM

Thanks for finding the lyrics and the site.

At the same site, was Jake Heggie's "Once Upon a Universe," a great little piece.