• 6 years ago
7min | Animation, Short, Comedy | 31 March 1933 (USA)

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."

Director: Dave Fleischer

Stars: Cab Calloway, Billy Murray, Mae Questel
Transcript
00:00🎵
00:25🎵
00:34🎵Made of pen and ink🎵
00:36🎵She can win you with a wing🎵
00:38🎵Ain't she cute🎵
00:40🎵Sweet Batty🎵
00:44🎵
00:58🎵Magic mirror in my hand🎵
01:00🎵Who's the fairest in the land🎵
01:02🎵You're the fairest in the land🎵
01:04🎵You're the fairest in the land🎵
01:06🎵
01:17🎵I wanna see my step-mama🎵
01:19🎵Step-mama🎵
01:20🎵Step-mama🎵
01:21🎵I wanna see my step-mama🎵
01:23🎵My step-mama the queen🎵
01:26🎵
01:48🎵I've heard about your looking glass🎵
01:51🎵Looking glass, looking glass🎵
01:53🎵I've heard about your looking glass🎵
01:55🎵What it says is so🎵
01:58🎵
02:03🎵Magic mirror in my hand🎵
02:05🎵Who's the fairest in the land🎵
02:07🎵You're the fairest in the land🎵
02:09🎵You're the fairest in the land🎵
02:11🎵
02:15Off with her head!
02:17🎵
02:30🎵Always in the way🎵
02:34🎵I can never play🎵
02:38🎵My own mama would never say🎵
02:42🎵I'm always in the way🎵
02:46🎵
02:52Don't leave me here alone!
02:54I don't wanna scream!
02:56🎵
03:12Save me, save me, save me!
03:16Thank you!
03:18🎵
03:40Wow!
03:42🎵
04:04Am I the fairest in the place?
04:06If I were you, I'd hide my face!
04:08🎵
04:20🎵Folks, I'm going down to St. James Infirmary🎵
04:26🎵See🎵
04:30🎵My baby there🎵
04:32🎵She's dressed out on a long white table🎵
04:35🎵She's so sweet, so cold, so fair🎵
04:40🎵Let her go, let her go🎵
04:43🎵Oh, bless her🎵
04:46🎵Wherever she may be🎵
04:50🎵She will search this wide world over🎵
04:55🎵But she'll never find another sweet man like me🎵
05:00🎵Now when I die, they'll meet my straight-legged riches🎵
05:05🎵Put on a box-back coat and a studs and a hat🎵
05:11🎵Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain🎵
05:15🎵So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat🎵
05:20🎵Then give me six crap-shootin' pallbearers🎵
05:26🎵Let a chorus girl sing me a song🎵
05:31🎵Put a red-hot jazz band at the top of me🎵
05:36🎵So we can raise hallelujah as we go along🎵
05:40🎵Folks, now that you have heard my story🎵
05:45🎵Say, boy, hand me over another shot of that booze🎵
05:52🎵If anyone should ask you🎵
05:55🎵Tell them I got those St. James Infirmary blues🎵
06:06🎵Magic mirror in my hand🎵
06:08🎵Now, who's the fairest in the land?🎵
06:12🎵You're the fairest in the land🎵
06:22🎵Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh🎵
06:52🎵Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh🎵

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