I Get a Kick Out of You

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"I Get a Kick Out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, originally featured in Anything Goes (1934).

Originally sung by Ethel Merman, it has been covered by performers including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Gary Shearston, Jamie Cullum, The Living End and Dolly Parton.

Alterations to the song

Around the late 1950s and early 1960s, a line referring to the drug cocaine was changed.

The original line goes as follows:

Some get a kick from cocaine

I'm sure that if

I took even one sniff

That would bore me terrifically, too

Yet, I get a kick out of you

The line was changed to:

Some like the bop-type refrain

I'm sure that if

I heard even one riff

It would bore me terrifically, too

Yet, I get a kick out of you

It should be noted that Sinatra recorded both versions: the first in 1953 and the second in 1962. On a in 1962, Sinatra sings the original version, but with the first line as Some like the perfume from Spain.

Lyrics (Jamie Cullum version)

I get no kick from champagne

Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all

So tell me why should it be true

That I get a kick out of you

Some get their kicks from cocaine

I'm sure that if I took even one sniff

That would bore me terrifically too

That I get a kick out of you

I get a kick every time I see you standing there before me

I get a kick though it's clear to me that you obviously do not adore me

I get no kick in a plane

Flying too high with some gal in the sky

Is my idea of nothing to do

But I get a kick out of you

I get no kick from champagne

''Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all

So tell me why should it be true

That I get a kick out of you

Some get their kicks from cocaine

I'm sure that if I took even one sniff

That would bore me terrifically too

That I get a kick out of you

I get a kick every time I see you standing there before me

I get a kick though it's clear to me that you obviously do not adore me

I get no kick in a plane

Flying too high with some gal in the sky

Is my idea of nothing to do

But I get a kick

She gives me the boot

I get a kick out of you

Popular culture

In the film Blazing Saddles, Bart (Cleavon Little) and his fellow workers sing this song despite (or because of) its anachronicity. Their version uses the seldom-heard cocaine lyric.

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