Track Title:               I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

Album Title:               Harold Arlen Songbook, disc 14
Prime Artist:              Ella Fitzgerald
Arranger:                  Billy May
Lyrics by:                 Ted Koehler     (Theodore K.)

Music by:                  Harold Arlen     (b. Hyman Arluck)
Producer:                  Norman Granz
Orchestra:                 Billy May
From the Show:             Earl Carrol's Vanities  1932 (S)


Lyrics:
I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to feel low-down

I gotta right to hang around

Down around the river


A certain gal in this old town

Keeps draggin' my poor (old) heart around

All I see, for me is - misery


I gotta right to sing the blues

I gotta right to moan and sigh

I gotta right to sit and cry

Down around the river


I know the deep blue sea

Will soon be callin' me

It must be love - say what you choose

I gotta right to sing the blues


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