Gene Kelly 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 DONT GET YOURSELF IN A SWEAT.

 WHEN THINGS LOOK GRAY,

 JUST SHRUG AND SAY:

 IT MUSTA BEEN SOMETHIN?I ET!HOCTAWS, CHICKASAWS,

 CHATTAHOOCHEES, CHIPPEWAS DO.

 

 IF YOURE 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 YOURE OLDER, YOULL 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 ITS 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 CLEARS IN, YOULL 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, ITS 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!

 

 From: Gary Moody