Jeepers, creepers....where'd ya get them peepers
Jeepers, creepers...where'd ya get those eyes
Gosh oh, git up....how'd they get so lit up
Gosh oh, gee oh....how'd they get that size
Golly gee...When you turn them heaters on
Woe is me...got to put my cheaters on
Jeepers, creepers....where'd ya get them peepers
Oh, those weepers....how they hypnotize
This was Johnny Mercer's first Oscar
nomination. He said "I think I heard Henry Fonda say something
like 'jeepers creepers' in a movie, and I thought it would be a cute
idea for a song. I searched around quite a bit and then found
that it fit so well as a title for that melody of Harry's. It was
lucky casting that we got Louis Armstrong to sing it, although it
wasn't written for him."
Sung in the film "Going Places", "Jeepers Creepers" is the name of a
racehorse who refuses to run
unless Louis is singing to him! Johnny Mercer, the lyricist, recalled
its inspiration: "My wife and I went to see a movie one night at
Grauman's
Chinese Theatrer and Henry Fonda played a farm boy in it... And in the
move he saw something, something impressed him, and he said, "Jeepers
creepers," and that just rang a little bell in my head, and I wrote it
down when I got out of the movie.