My One And Only Highland Fling
Composer(s): Harry Warren; Ira Gershwin
Performer(s): Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
and various other artists



Fred:
Though we're called a people of serious mind
'Tis often we dance, 'tis often we sing

Ginger:
And bein' as human as all human-kind
We arrren't superior to havin' a fling

Fred:
I'm taking the fling of a lifetime

Ginger:
The fling of a husband and wife-time

Fred:
A-when I a-went rrromancing
I a-gave no thought to any wedding rrring
Every bonnie lassie was
My highland fling

A-no chance was I chancing
I' a-m not the man ya dangle on a strrring
I was canny waitin' for the
Rrreal, rrreal thing

A-though I danced each girrrl in a twist and a-twirrrl
Ney one would do
And I went a-my way 'til the fatal day
In the fling I was flung a-with you
Ohhhh....

Now my hearrrt is prancin'
A-gay as a larrrk and happy as a king
The yearrrs I'll weatherrr, in the hame on the heatherrr
With my one and only highland fling

I thought you werrre fallin' for Andy MacPherson

Ginger:
Ney, ney. He became an impossible person
But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?

Fred:
She talked when I putted and drrrove me to frenzie
But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?

Ginger:
It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal
And werrren't ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?

Fred:
I tasted her cooking 
T'would make me a hermit
How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon

Ginger:
His neck had a head on, but therrre wasn't much in

Fred:
And what about Sandy?

Ginger:
His hands were too handy
And wasn't therrre a Jenny?

Fred:
I'm not wantin' any...
I'm not wantin' any but you

Ginger:
When I went a-dancin'
No special lad I was encourrragin'
Every lackly laddie was
My highland fling

No glance I was glancin'
Well, nothin' rrreally worth a-mentionin'
Hopin', watchin', waitin' for the
Rrreal, rrreal thing

Though they spoke me soft in the moonlit oft'
Ney one would do
'Til it came to pass to this lucky lass
In a fling I was flung with you
Ohhh....

Now my hearrrt is prrrancin'
Nothin' about ya I'd be alterin'
The yearrrs I'll weatherrr, in the hame on the heatherrr
With me one and only highland fling