Open The Door Richard lyrics

Artist  : Jack McVea 
Song : Open The Door Richard
 


Open the Door Richard
Count Basie and His
Orchestra
Words by Dusty Fletcher and John
Mason
Music by Jack McVea and Don
Howell

Peaked at # 1 in 1947 and, true to
the times, six OTHER versions also made
the
Top 10
Three Flames (#1); Dusty
Fletcher (#3); Jack McVea (#3); the Charioteers
(#6);
Louis Jordan (#6); and The Pied Pipers
(#8)

Intro-conversations mingled in a
crowded room



???? at the club
tonight. Ole Richard went home early-he's got the
key to the
house. I'm gonna knock on the door,
see if I kin get in.



Open the door, Richard!! Ya
see, Richard sleeps in the back room. It's kinda
hard
to hear.
Maybe I better knock a little
louder.



Open the door, Richard!! I
don't think Richard heard me yet. Knock one
more
time-let's see
what's gonna
happen.



Richard, open the door,
please.

SUNG: Open the door,
Richard
Open the door and let me in
Open
the door, Richard
Richard, why don't you open
that door?

Richard, open the door,
man-it's *co-hold* out here'n this air. Now
look-there's that
old woman 'cross the street
lookin' out the windah
(Who's that, Widow
Sweet?)
That must be her sister, I guess. She
wants to make SURE this is me. She's tryin'
to
find out
what's happenin'. Yes, it's me and I'm
late again!
(??, did you hear what the lady's
sayin'?)
No, what is she sayin'?
(She said
you sure look common out here'n the
street.)
COMMON? Man, I got class I ain't
never used yet. I'm gonna knock
again-
Richard's got to get up.



Open the door, Richard!!
Man, you got a key to the house?
(No, ??, I
don't have a key. I DON'T have a
key.)
Somebody's got to get in the house. We
can't climb in the transit.
(Oh, I know he's
in there.)
How YOU know he's in there?
(I
can hear him breathin'.)
Ooooh, let's try it
one more time!



Richard, open that door, man.
Maybe Richard's gone.



SUNG: Open the door,
Richard
Open the door and let me in
Open
the door, Richard
Richard, why don't you open
that door? < halfway thru this singing
part,
it blends
with a background
conversation.>

I know he's in
there.
(how you know he's in there?)
Why,
you got on the suit.
I know I got on the only
suit. Ain't got but one suit between us. That's
the
reason why I don't like to roooooom with
nobody.

FADE
Richard, why don'tcha open
the door, man?


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
*cold."*
This entire song is done on an ad-lib
basis and it varies WIDELY from other
versions,
which were considerably funnier. "??" represents
the names or
nicknames of the band members
which I could not comprehend. Still it IS
the
version that made #1.