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The Glow-Worm
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-Artists: The Mills Brothers as sung on "Remembering the 50's and 60's"
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-Reader's Digest/RCA Records RDA-030/A
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-peak Billboard position # 1 for 3 weeks in 1952
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-competing version by lyricist Mercer hit # 30
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- Original words by Lilla Cayley Robinson
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-Adaptation of the 1908 song from the German operetta "Lysistrata" and the
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-Broadway musical "The Girl Behind the Counter"
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- Modern words by Johnny Mercer, Music by Paul Lincke
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
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Lead us lest too far we wander
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Love's sweet voice is calling yonder
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer
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Hey, there don't get dimmer, dimmer
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Light the path below, above
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And lead us on to love!
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Glow little glow-worm, fly of fire
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Glow like an incandescent wire
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Glow for the female of the species
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Turn on the AC and the DC
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This night could use a little brightnin'
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Light up you little ol' bug of lightnin'
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When you gotta glow, you gotta glow
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Glow little glow-worm, glow
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Glow little glow-worm, glow and glimmer
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Swim through the sea of night, little swimmer
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Thou aeronautical boll weevil
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Illuminate yon woods primeval
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See how the shadows deep and darken
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You and your chick should get to sparkin'
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I got a gal that I love so
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Glow little glow-worm, glow
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Glow little glow-worm, turn the key on
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You are equipped with taillight neon
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You got a cute vest-pocket *Mazda*
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Which you can make both slow and *fazda*
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I don't know who you took a shine to
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Or who you're out to make a sign to
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I got a gal that I love so
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Glow little glow-worm, glow
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Glow little glow-worm, glow
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Glow little glow-worm, glow
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Glow little glow-worm, glow !!
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Transcriber's Note: *Mazda* and "fazda* are pronounced as "mastuh" and "fastuh"
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Transcribed by Robin Hood with help from his friend, Wayne
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These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
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and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
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music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.
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Glow Worm
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| The Mills Brothers |
