It was a lovely April shower, It was a most convenient door,
I found a million dollar baby, In a five and ten cent store.
The rain continued for an hour, I hung around for three or four
Around the million dollar baby, In the five and ten cent store.
She was selling china, And when she made those eyes,
I kept buying china, Until the crowd got wise.
Incidentally, If you should run into a shower, Well step inside my cottage
door,
And meet the million dollar baby, From the five and ten cent store
(Bridge:)
Love comes along like a popular song
Anytime or anywhere at all, Rain or sunshine, Spring or fall.
Say, you'll never know when it may say hello
In a very unexpected place, For example, take my case.
Notes: introduced
by Ted Healy, Fanny Brice, Phil Baker, and Lew Brice in Billy Rose's 1931
Stage musical "Crazy Quilt." Bing Crosby recorded it twice, once for Brunswick
and once for Decca. It was featured in the 1941 Warner Brothers dramatic
film "Million Dollar Baby," starring Ronald Reagan, and sung by Barbara
Streisand, as Fanny Brice, and James Caan as Billy Rose, in the 1975 Musical
Biography "Funny Lady," a sequel to Funny Girl from 1968.
