My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]
Fred Astaire

Though we're called a people of serious mind,
'Tis often we dance, 'tis often we sing.

And bein' as human as all human-kind,
We aren't superior to havin' a fling.
I'm taking the fling of a lifetime.
The fling of a husband and wife-time.

A-when I a-went romancing
I a-gave no thought to any wedding ring.
Every bonnie lassie was
My highland fling.

A-no chance was I chancing
I' a-m not the man ya dangle on a string.
I was canny waitin' for the
Real, real thing.

A-though I danced each girl in a twist and a-twirl
Ney one would do.
And I went a-my way 'til the fatal day
In the fling I was flung a-with you.
Oh

Now my heart is prancin'
A-gay as a lark and happy as a king.
The years I'll weather, in the hame on the heather,
With my one and only highland fling.
I thought you were fallin' for Andy MacPherson.

Ney, ney. He became an impossible person.
But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?
She talked when I putted and drove me to frenzie.
But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?

It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal.
And weren't ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?
I tasted her cooking. T'would make me a hermit.
How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon.

His neck had a head on, but there wasn't much in.
And what about Sandy?

His hands were too handy.
And wasn't there a Jenny?

I'm not wantin' any
I'm not wantin' any but you.

When I went a-dancin'
No special lad I was encouragin'.
Every lackly laddie was
My highland fling.

No glance I was glancin'.
Well, nothin' really worth a-mentionin'.
Hopin', watchin', waitin' for the
Real, real thing.

Though they spoke me soft in the moonlit oft',
Ney one would do.
'Til it came to pass to this lucky lass
In a fling I was flung with you.
Oh

Now my heart is prancin'.
Nothin' about ya I'd be alterin'.
The years I'll weather, in the hame on the heather,
With me one and only highland fling.


  Purchase "My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]" Video   Play Spotify "My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]" Song   View Wikipedia "My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Fred Astaire Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "My One and Only Highland Fling [From The Barkleys of Broadway]"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Fred Astaire

  'S Wonderful   A Fine Romance   A Fine Romance [*]   A Fine Romance [Alternate Take][#]   A Fine Romance [From Swing Time]   A Foggy Day   A Foggy Day (A Damsel in Distress)   A Foggy Day (In London Town) [From A Damsel in Dis...   A Foggy Day [From A Damsel in Distress]   A Foggy Day in London Town [From Damsel in Distres...   A Needle in a Haystack   A Needle in a Haystack [From The Gay Divorcee]   A New Sun in the Sky   A Nice Work If You Can Get It [From Damsel in Disr...   After You, Who?   After You, Who? [Gay Divorce]   All by Myself   All of You   All of You (Silk Stockings)   All of You [Extended Version]   All of You [From Silk Stockings]   Blue Skies   Bojangles Of Harlem   Bojangles of Harlem [*]   Bojangles of Harlem [From Swing Time]   By Myself   By Myself [From The Band Wagon]   Carioca   Change Partners   Change Partners [From Carefree][#]   Cheek To Cheek   Cheek to Cheek [*]   Cheek to Cheek [From the Green Mile]   Cheek To Cheek [From The Purple Rose Of Cairo (198...   Cheek to Cheek [From the Purple Rose of Cairo]   Cheek to Cheek [From Top Hat]   Cheek to Cheek {from Top Hat}   Coffee Time [Yolanda and the Thief]   Dancing in the Dark   Dancing in the Dark [From the Bandwagon]   Dearly Belove   Dearly Beloved   Dearly Beloved [*]   Dearly Beloved [From You Were Never Lovelier]   Dream Dancing   Fascinating Rhythm   Fascinating Rhythm [From Lady, Be Good!]   Fast Dances [Instrumental]   Flying Down To Rio   Flying Down to Rio [From Flying Down to Rio]   Flying Down to Rio [From Flying Down to Rio][#]   Foggy Day [From A Damsel in Distress]   Funny Face   Funny Face [From Funny Face]   Funny Face [Tip Toes]   Hang on to Me   Hang On to Me [From Lady, Be Good!]   Happy Holidays   He Loves and She Loves   He Loves and She Loves [From Funny Face]   Heat Wave   Hoops   Hoops [From The Band Wagon]   How Are Things in Glocca Morra?   How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You W...   How Long Has This Been Going On? [Cut from Origina...   How Lucky Can You Get   How Lucky Can You Get [The Pleasure of Your Compan...   How Lucky Can You Get?   I Can't Be Bothered Now   I Concentrate on You   I Left My Hat in Haiti   I Love Louisa   I Love to Dance Like They Used to Dance   I Used to Be Color Blind   I Used to Be Color Blind [From Carefree][#]   I Wanna Be Loved By You [#]   I Won't Dance   I Won't Dance   I'd Rather Charleston   I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown   I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket   I've Got My Eyes on You   I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket   In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening   Isn't This A Lovely Day   Isn't This a Lovely Day?   Isn't This A Lovely Day   Jam Session [Instrumental]   Jam Session for a Dancer [Instrumental]   Let Yourself Go   Let Yourself Go [From Follow the Fleet]   Let Yourself Go [From Follow the Fleet][#]   Let's Call The Whole Thing Off   Let's Face The Music And Dance   Let's Call The Whole Thing Off   Let's Face The Music And Dance   Look to the Rainbow   Love Of My Life   Lovely to Look At   Manhattan Downbeat   Me and the Ghost Upstairs   Medium Dance [Instrumental]   Medley: Lovely to Look At   Miss Otis Regrets   My Eyes Adored You   My One and Only   My One And Only [From Funny Face]   My One and Only Highland Fling   My Sunny Tennessee   Needle in a Haystack   Never Gonna Dance   Never Gonna Dance [*]   Never Gonna Dance [From Swing Time]   New Sun in the Sky   New Sun in the Sky [From The Band Wagon]   Nice Work If You Can Get It   Nice Work If You Can Get It [*]   Nice Work If You Can Get It [*]   Nice Work If You Can Get It [From A Damsel in Dist...   Night And Day   Night and Day [*]   Night and Day [#]   Night and Day [From Gay Divorcee]   Night and Day [From the Gay Divorce]   Night and Day [From the Gay Divorcee]   Night and Day [The Gay Divorcee]   No Strings I'm Fancy Free   No Strings I'm Fancy Free   Not My Girl   Oh Lady Be Good   Oh, Lady Be Good   On The Beam   One For My Baby   Paris Loves Lovers   Pick Yourself Up   Pick Yourself Up [*]   Pick Yourself Up [From Swing Time]   Pick Yourself Up [Swing Time]   Pick Yourself Up [The Pleasure of Your Company]   Poor Mister Chisholm   Poor Mister Chisholm [From Second Chorus]   Put a Shine on Your Shoes   Puttin On The Ritz   Puttin' on the Ritz   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Shall We Dance   Shall We Dance?   Sing   Sing [The Pleasure of Your Company]   Slap That Bass   Slap That Bass [Alternate Take]   Slap That Bass [From Shall We Dance]   Slow Dances [Instrumental]   So Near and Yet So Far   Spring Spring Spring   Spring, Spring, Spring   Spring, Spring, Spring [The Pleasure of Your Compa...   Steppin' Out with My Baby   Swiss Miss   Swiss Miss [From Lady, Be Good!]   The A Shine on Your Shoes   The Astaire Blues [Instrumental]   The Babbitt and the Bromide   The Babbitt and the Bromide [From Ziegfried Follie...   The By Myself   The By Myself (Reprise)   The Carioca   The Continental   The Continental [From the Gay Divorcée]   The Continental [From The Gay Divorcee]   The Half of It, Dearie, Blues   The I Love Louisa   The Piccolino   The Second Astaire Blues [Instrumental]   The Way Yo Look Tonight   The Way You Look Tonight   The Way You Look Tonight [*]   The Way You Look Tonight [From Swing Time]   The Way You Look Tonight [Swing Time]   They All Laughed   They All Laughed [From Shall We Dance?]   They All Laughed [From Shall We Dance]   They All Laughed [With Extended Chorus]   They Can't Take That Away from Me   They Can't Take That Away From Me   Things Are Looking Up   Things Are Looking Up [From A Damsel in Distress]   This Heart Of Mine   Top Hat, White Tie And Tails   Top Hat, White Tie and Tails [From Top Hat]   Ve   Waltz in Swing Time [From Swing Time][Instrumental...   White Christmas   You Were Never Lovelier   You Were Never Lovelier [*]   You Were Never Lovelier [From You Were Never Lovel...   You're All The World To Me   You're Easy To Dance With   You're Easy To Dance With

Related Songs

  My One and Only Highland Fling - Mel Tormé  My One and Only Highland Fling - Dinah Shore  My One and Only Highland Fling - Jo Stafford  My One and Only Highland Fling - Dick Haymes  McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing)...  Come Awa Hame Laddy - Celtic Folk  Highland Fling [Instrumental]...  Goodbye Joe - Laura Nyro  Good-Bye, Joe - Laura Nyro  My Lady Loves to Dance - Perry Como  Broadway - Shaggy  Highland Tyrant Attack - Absu  Highland - Blackmore's Night  Highland - Blackmores Night  45 Minutes to Broadway - Sheek Louch  Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway - George M. Cohan  Highland - Ritchie Blackmore  Desire's Only Fling - Matt Costa  Heart of the Highland - Capercaillie  Glasgow Peggy - Darby O'Gill  Broadway Baby - Chicago  Number One - N-Dubz  Broadway Baby [Follies] - Ethel Shutta  Broadway Baby - Elaine Paige  Broadway Baby - Glee  Broadway Baby - Glee Cast  Broadway Baby - Stephen Sondheim  I Beg Your Pardon, Dear Old Broadway (28 Mar 1911)...  Inn Of The Seventh Ray - Eleanor Friedberger  Haughs of Cromdale - Fiddler's Green  Forever Yesterday - Barclay James Harvest, The  Forever Yesterday - Barclay James Harvest  Forever Yesterday - The Barclay James Harvest  Chasing Lights - On The Surface  Number One (N-Dubz Remix) - N-Dubz  Being Cold - Strawberry Switchblade  Number One [N-Dubs Version] [Version]...  Number 1 - Tinchy Stryder  My Posses On Broadway - Sir Mix-A-Lot  Fling - Built to Spill  Sunset - Kid Ink  Echoes of a Heart - David Mead  Broadway - R. City   One Way Love - The Drifters  Still I Find You - Seven Mary Three  Still I Find You - 7 Mary 3  On Broadway - The Drifters  Fire in the Glen - Damien Dempsey  On Broadway - Chubby Checker  I'm singing Broadway - Bette Midler  I'm Singing Broadway - Bette Midler  The Other Man - Kyle Park  I Mourn For The Highlands - Andy M Stewart  The Miller's Son - A Little Night Music  The Miller's Son - Stephen Sondheim  A Bit Of You - Rufus Wainwright  On The Broadway - New Trolls  Highland County - Over The Rhine  On Broadway - The Coasters  On Broadway - Derek & the Diamonds  On Broadway - The Cookies  On Broadway - Main Attraction  On Broadway - Percy Faith & His Orchestra  On Broadway - Slam Stewart  On Broadway - Freddie Scott  On Broadway - Buddy Rich  On Broadway - Tito Puente  On Broadway - David Barretto  On Broadway - The Crusaders  On Broadway - Jess Roden  On Broadway - Barry Mann  On Broadway - Livingston Taylor  On Broadway - Kai Winding  On Broadway - The Challengers  On Broadway - Illinois Jacquet  On Broadway - Jim Gold  On Broadway - The Reflections  On Broadway [Live] - Gary Numan  On Broadway - Dave Barker  On Broadway - Junior Jazz  On Broadway - Jazz at the Movies Band  On Broadway - Reuben Wilson  On Broadway - Tony Christie  On Broadway - Frank DiBussolo  On Broadway [*] - The Drifters  On Broadway [#] - The Drifters  On Broadway - Tom Jones  On Broadway - Pat McLaughlin  On Broadway [#] - Sly & The Family Stone  On Broadway [Edit] - George Benson  On Broadway - Lou Rawls  On Broadway [Live][*] - Gary Numan  On Broadway - The Lost Souls  On Broadway - Billy Joe Royal  On Broadway [Club Mix] - White Rabbit  On Broadway - Stacy Sullivan  On Broadway - Jimmy Ponder  On Broadway - Galen Jeter  On Broadway - Nancy Wilson  On Broadway - Michael Ball  On Broadway [Live] - George Benson  On Broadway - Kaydee  On Broadway - Erich Kunzel  On Broadway [Live] - The Drifters  On Broadway - Mongo Santamaría  On Broadway - Mark Lowery  On Broadway - Little Jimmy Scott  On Broadway - The Vogues  On Broadway - Leo Night & the Moonlighters  On Broadway - Ernie Thomas  On Broadway - Tony Ermilio  On Broadway - Naim  On Broadway - Dave & Ansel Collins  On Broadway [All That Jazz]...  On Broadway - The Jazz Crusaders  On Broadway - Blossom Dearie  On Broadway - Ansel Collins  On Broadway - Martini Lizards  On Broadway - Pete Cater  On Broadway - King Curtis  On Broadway [New Stereo Recording] - The Drifters  On Broadway [Mono Version] - The Reflections  On Broadway - Bobby Darin  On Broadway - Eric Carmen  On Broadway - Edgar Abraham  On Broadway - Mike Wade  On Broadway - Ben E. King  On Broadway - Barbie Anaka  On Broadway [From All That Jazz]...  On Broadway - The Manfreds  On Broadway - NY Louie & Friends  On Broadway [Version Soul] - Oliver Cheatham  On Broadway - Percy Faith  On Broadway - Carl Wayne  On Broadway - Eddie Cano  On Broadway - Frank Sinatra  Broadway Is Dark Tonight - Goo Goo Dolls  Bleecker Street - Waterboys  Kicking Kay - The Horrors  Broadway, Here I Come - Smash  Commercial Affection - Mel Tillis  Commercial Affection - Ernest Tubb  FLING OF MINE - Gino Vannelli  Between Two Fires - Paul Young  Stardust [DVD] - Martin L. Gore  Fling - Girls Aloud  Broadway Jungle - Toots and the Maytals  Things Fall Apart - Built To Spill  On Broadway - Smash  Miss Broadway - Belle Epoque  Broadway - Ian Hunter  Summer Fling - K.D. Lang  Stardust - Martin L Gore  Stardust - Martin L. Gore  Little Miss Broadway - Shirley Temple  Bag Lady - Todd Rundgren  On Broadway (Edit) - George Benson  On Broadway (Live Version) - George Benson  Take Me To Broadway - Gonzales  Addicted - Morningwood  Hice It Up - Lady Saw  Heist It Up - Lady Saw  Another Honky-Tonk Night On Broadway (1982)...  Last One in the World [DVD] - Blondie  Last One In The World - Blondie  Last One in the World - Blondie  Last One On The Planet - Blondie  After That Paper - Cam'ron  G.I.T. On Broadway - The Temptations  G.I.T. On Broadway - Temptations  Hair In My Eyes Like a Highland Steer (from Hair I...  Strange Ideas - The Fling  Lonely Fool - The Fling  Loch Lomond - The Real Mckenzies  Keyhole In The Sky - RISHLOO  My One and Only - Chris Connor  My One and Only - George Gershwin  My One and Only - Lee Wiley  My One and Only - Margaret Whiting  My One And Only - Vineyard  My One And Only - Rachael Lampa  My One And Only - Lil Neo  Nights On Broadway - The Bee Gees  D'you Ken Ted Mould? - Half Man Half Biscuit  Lullaby of Broadway - Little Jack Little  Calling Kyle - Les Claypool  Conway - Reel 2 Real  Dondald where´s your trousers? - Irish Rovers  Donald, Where's Your Trousers? - St. Patrick's Day  On Broadway - Neil Young  On Broadway (EP) - Neil Young  Broadway Jungle - The Maytals  On Broadway - Steve Tyrell  Fire In The Glen - Andy M Stewart  Fire In The Glen - Andy M. Stewart  Sneakers - Raekwon  Broadway - Old 97's  Broadway - Old 97's  Winter Fling (Demo Version) - Ima Robot  Trycolour - The Jezabels