I'm gonna lock myself
In a fallout shelter
To get away from you.
I'm gonna bolt the door
Never come out no more,
Just to keep away from you.
Oh, you,
You, terrible you,
Tough, tough you!
I'm gonna lock my heart
To keep out radiation.
The kind you've got
Could blow out a nation.
And never more will I open the door,
Because I might get contamination.
From you,
terrible you,
Tough, tough you!
Well if you change your mind,
Just drop me a line.
Push it through the ventilation.
If you don't care, baby,
Slip me some air,
And I'll stay for another generation.
Oh, you,
Terrible you,
Tough, tough you!
Dore Alpert
(Frank D'Amico-Herb Alpert)
Carnival Records CAR-1002,
1962
Thanks for that post!
"Dore Alpert" is, of course, the great Herb Alpert, pre-Tijuana Brass, whose A&M Studios almost single-handedly kept the melody in popular music during the '60s and '70s. Herb's wife, Lani Hall, is the most enthralling jazz/latin singer on the planet. Both recently played with their old pal Sergio Mendes at the Hollywood Bowl, Lani singing four of her old Brasil '66 songs with Herb backing up on trumpet, and they brought down the house. Very talented people.