Sing for Your Supper

By Count Basie

On The Complete Decca Recordings

Released on 1939

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[Verse 1]

Sing for your supper, and you'll get breakfast

Songbirds always eat

If their song is sweet to hear


[Verse 2]

Sing for your luncheon, and you'll get dinner

Dine with wine of choice

If romance is in your voice


[Bridge]

I heard from a wise canary

Trilling makes a fellow willing

So, little swallow, swallow now

Now is the time to


[Verse 3]

Sing for your supper, and you'll get breakfast

Songbirds are not dumb

They don't buy a crumb of bread, it's said

So sing and you'll be fed