Histoire de résumer un peu les choses…
Le titre exact : "Ain't She Sweet"
Les auteurs : Milton Ager et Jack Yellen (1927)
Interprète original : difficile à établir, tant il y en a eu…
Et les paroles :
"
There she is! There she is!
There's what keeps me up at night
Oh, gee whiz! Oh, gee whiz!
There's why I can't eat a bite
Those flaming eyes! That flaming youth!
Oh, mister oh, sister, tell me the truth…
Ain't she sweet?
See her walking down the street
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?
Ain't she nice
Look her over once or twice
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she nice?
Just cast an eye in her direction
Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection
I repeat
Don't you think she's kind of sweet
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?
Tell me where, tell me where
Have you seen one just like that
I declare, I declare
That sure is worth looking at
Oh, boy, how sweet those lips must be
Gaze on it, doggonit! Now answer me
Ain't she sweet?
See her walking down the street
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?
Ain't she nice?
Look her over once or twice
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she nice?
Just cast an eye in her direction
Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection
I repeat
Don't you think she's kind of sweet
Now I ask you very confidentially
Ain't she sweet?"
La version des Beatles (qui l'ont en fait enregistrée en 1964
et 1969 ; on en trouve une version sur le volume 3 de "Anthology")
Bref. Compte tenu des imprécisions et inexactitudes dans la description, il me semble à présent que parvenir à l'identifier tenait plus de la gageure que de la culture ! (*)
Ah, oui ! Et la liste des interprètes est
visible ici : d'ailleurs, ça se bousculerait même un peu au portillon !
(*) et, pendant que j'y pense, chapeau !…