One For My Baby

It's quarter to three

There's no one in the place

Except you and me

So set 'em' up Joe

I got a little story

I think you should know

We're drinking my friend, to the end

Of a brief episode

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road



I got the routine

Put another nickel

In the machine

I'm feeling so bad

Won't you make the music

Easy and sad

I could tell you a lot, but it's not

In a gentleman's code

Just make it one for my baby

And one more for the road



You'd never know it, but buddy I'm a kind of poet

And I've got a lot of things I'd like to say

And when I'm gloomy, won't you listen to me

Till it's talked away



Well that's how it goes

And Joe I know your gettin'

Anxious to close

Thanks for the cheer

I hope you didn't mind

My bending your ear

But this torch that I found

It's gotta be drowned

Or it soon might explode

Make it one for my baby

And one more for the road