Triplets - Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan

While I'm watching this, I'm in heaven.

Here's the words so you can join in:

Three little unexpected children
Simultaneously, the doctor brought us
And you can see that we'll be
Three forever and a-e-i-o-
You wouldn't know how agonizing
Being triple can be
Each one is individually the victim
Of the clinical day e-i-o-
Every summer we go away to Baden Baden Baden
Every winter we come back home to Walla Walla Walla

We do everything alike
We look alike
We dress alike, we walk alike
We talk alike
And what is more
We hate each other very much
We hate our folks
We're sick of jokes on what an art it is
To tell us apart!

Fred : If one of us gets the measles
Jack : Another one gets the measles
All : Then all of us gets the measles
And mumps and croup.
How I wish I had a gun
A widdle gun
It would be fun to shoot the other two
And be only one.

Fred : Mrs Whipple Poofer loves to talk to
Mrs Hildendorfer of the fatal natal day
She had her silly Willy

Nanette : Mrs Hudson-Cooper loves to talk to
Mrs Golden-Wasser
Of her major operations
When she had her twins.

Jack : But when Mother comes along
She silences the others
She accomplished something
That is very rare in mothers.

All : MGM has got a Leo
But Mama has got a trio
She is proud but says three is a crowd

Oh, we do everything alike
We look alike
We dress alike, we walk alike
We talk alike
And what is more
We hate each other very much
We hate our folks
We're sick of jokes on what an art it is
To tell us apart!

We eat the same kind of vittles
We drink the same kind of bottles
We sit in the same kind of high-chair
High-chair, high-chair!

How I wish I had a gun
A widdle gun
It would be fun to shoot the other two
And be only one.

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Music

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• astaire
• triplets

[CurlyHayami]

I saw something on That's Entertainment where she was dressed like a poor person...I wanna find it again real bad. Something like, "We'd catch a cab but we can't afford the fare!"

[sparksfontaine]

That's "A Couple of Swells". Type in "swells" and you'll get it as your first result. It's Fred and Judy Garland actually. I think it's a great song too. In fact, I learned all the words so that I could sing it to myself properly.

Ah, such fun!

[Lockpeople]

It's from Bandwagon, now my official favorite movie

[octavarium8818]

me and my cousins were flipping thru the channels and we saw the end of this and we were like "what the fuck" and "that was the weirdest thing i have ever seen in my life"

its funny as hell

[hardlines4]

A time when we had REAL entertainment!!!

[Gideon235]

If you pause at 0:12 that star thing looks a bit like the eye of sauron

[leafyutube]

Band wagon is great. This scene and the shoe shine at Grand Central are my favorite.

[ChrisWalkenFan]

Do you know what is so interesting on this song, it's the fact that Fred doesn't wear his ring on his little finger of the right hand in it, but Jack Buchanan does ;) Pay attention. Both did wear a ring on the little figner. Fred did never not wear it, but why this time? Hmmmm^^ and why the heck does the house burn? LOL

[sccl77]

Highchair! Highchair! Brilliant!!

[RandomLeanne]

i love this..it's hilarious XD

[Unbounding]

Oh joy....

[chuckbyf1]

What show is this in??

[ninababy8]

Been looking for this along time. I Remember the song from variety shows in the 60s when I was a kid. Such genius !! I love Nanette !!! Love her!!! Ouch those knees

[pycturethis]

I talked about it with my aunt years ago. Have to think and remember what she said.

My aunt is in the middle.