I've Got Five Dollars

I've Got Five Dollars
music by Richard Rodgers (left)
lyric by Lorenz Hart (right)

Mister Shylock was stingy; I was miserly, too.
I was more selfish and crabby than a shellfish.
Oh, dear, it's queer what love can do!
I'd give all my possessions for you...

I've got five dollars; I'm in good condition; and I've got ambition---
That belongs to you.
Six shirts and collars; debts beyond endurance on my life insurance---
That belongs to you.

I've got a heart that must be spurtin'!
Just be certain I'll be true!

Take my five dollars! Take my shirts and collars! Take my heart that hollers,
"Ev'rything I've got belongs to you!"

Peggy Joyce has a bus'ness; all her husbands have gold.
And Lilyan Tashman is not kissed by an ashman.
But now, somehow, wealth leaves me cold.
Though you're not poor as a church mouse, I'm sold!

I've got five dollars; eighty-five relations; two lace combinations---
They belong to you!
Two coats with collars; Ma and Grandma wore 'em; all the moths adore 'em---
They belong to you!

I've got two lips that care for mating, therefore waiting will not do!
Take my five dollars! Take my shirt and collars! Take my heart that hollers,
"Ev'rything I've got belongs to you!"