Pass That Peace Pipe Lyrics

Pass That Peace Pipe lyrics

Pass That Peace Pipe 

 Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire 

 Written by Roger Edens, Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane 

  

 - as a duet for Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire in the MGM film 

 Ziegfeld Follies, but it never made it into the picture. 

 It resurfaced a few years later in 1947 in the movie "Good News" 

 and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Song! 

  

  

 A MEDICINE MAN I MET 

 SAID DON'T GET YOURSELF IN A SWEAT. 

 WHEN THINGS LOOK GRAY, 

 JUST SHRUG AND SAY: 

 "IT MUSTA BEEN SOMETHIN' I ET!" 

 "SO DON'T GET YOURSELF IN A SNIT, " HE SAID, 

 "TUCK YOUR TANTRUMS INTO YOUR KIT INSTEAD. 

 "IT'S DISARMING TO BE CHARMING," 

 QUOTH THE MEDICINE MAN, 

 WHOM ALL AGREE IT'S PLAIN TO SEE 

 NOBODY COULD BE WISER THAN. 

  

 SO IF YOUR TEMPER'S GETTING A TOP HAND, 

 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST STOP AND 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE AND BURY THAT HATCHET 

 LIKE THE CHOCTAWS, CHICKASAWS, 

 CHATTAHOOCHEES, CHIPPEWAS DO. 

  

 IF YOU'RE FEELING MAD AS A WET HEN, 

 MAD AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET, THEN 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE, BURY THAT TOMAHAWK 

 LIKE THOSE CHICHAMECKS, CHEROKEES, 

 CHAPULTEPECS DO. 

 THAT COLD SHOULDER NEVER SOLVED A SINGLE COMPLAINT. 

 WHEN YOU'RE OLDER, YOU'LL WIPE OFF ALL OF THAT WAR 

 PAINT. 

  

 IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A FURY, 

 BE YOUR OWN JUDGE AND YOUR OWN JURY. 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE AND BURY THAT HATCHET 

 LIKE THE CHOCTAWS, CHICKASAWS, 

 CHATTAHOOCHEES, CHIPPEWAS DO. 

  

 IF YOU WANT TO HOVER OUT WEST, TOO, 

 YOU WILL SOON DISCOVER IT'S BEST TO 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE AND BURY THAT HATCHET 

 LIKE THE CHOKTOHS, CHANGOS, 

 CHATTANOOGAS, CHEEKAROHS DO. 

  

 EVEN IN COLONIAL DAYS, YOU 

 KNOW THE CEREMONIAL WAYS TO 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE AND BURY THAT TOMAHAWK 

 LIKE THOSE CHAKOOTAMEES, CHEPACHEPS 

 'N' CHICOPEES, TOO. 

 PULL YOUR EARS IN, TRY TO USE A LITTLE CONTROL. 

 WHEN "ALL CLEAR"'S IN, YOU'LL BE TOP MAN ON THE TOTEM 

 POLE. 

  

 SO, IF YOU WANNA BE AN ALL-RIGHT GUY -- 

 NOT A LONG FACE, BLUES-IN-THE-NIGHT GUY -- 

 WRITE THAT APOLOGY AND DISPATCH IT! 

 WHEN YOU QUARREL, IT'S GRAND TO PATCH IT! 

 PASS THAT PEACE PIPE AND BURY THAT HATCHET 

 LIKE THOSE CHOCTAWS, CHICKASAWS, 

 CHATTAHOOCHEES, CHIPPEWAS 

 AND THOSE CHICHAMECKS, CHEROKEES, 

 CHAPULTEPECS 

 AND THOSE CHAKOOTAMEES, CHEPACHEPS 

 'N' CHICOPEES, CHOKTOHS, CHANGOS, 

 CHATTANOOGAS, CHEEKAROHS DO-O-O-O