"You may have your noisy racketeers
To make the public wary,
But I will take for happiness
An evening spent with Gary.

Chavalier has to grin a lot
And Fairbanks leap and prance
But Gary has them all washed up
With just his melting glance.

Some say his eyes are blue, some gray;
I can't tell, I will confess
But I don't care what others say,
I like their tenderness.
I'd walk through Bagdad unafraid,
And if a thug grew bolder,
I'd never even turn a lash,
If I had Gary's shoulder.

Though sometimes I doze at the movies
And I wake in a sort of stupor,
Believe you me, I don't close an eye
When watching Gary Cooper."