Gigi Lyrics - Billy Eckstine

She's a babe 

Just a babe 

Still cavorting in her crib 

Eating breakfast with a bib 

With her baby teeth 

And all her baby curls 

She's a tot 

Just a tot 

Good for bouncing on your knee 

I am positive that she 

Doesn't even know that boys aren't girls 

She's a snip 

Just a snip 

Making dreadful baby noise 

Having fun with all her toys 

Just a chickadee who needs a mother hen 

She's a cub, a papoose 

You could never turn her loose 

She's too infantile to take her from her pen 

Of course, that weekend in Trouville 

In spite of all her youthful zeal 

She was exceedingly polite 

And on the whole a sheer delight 

And if it wasn't joy galore 

At least not once was she a bore, 

That I recall 

No, not at all 

Ah! She's a child 

A silly child 

Adolescent to her toes 

And good heaven how it shows 

Sticky thumbs are all the fingers she has got 

She's a child 

A clumsy child 

She's as swollen as a grape 

And she doesn't have a shape 

Where her figure ought to be, 

It is not! 

Just a child 

A growing child 

That's so backward for her years 

If a boy her age appears 

I am certain he will never call again! 

She's a scamp and a brat 

Doesn't know where she is at 

Unequipped and undesirable to men 

Of course, I must confess 

That in that brand new little dress 

She looked surprisingly mature 

And had a definite allure 

It was a shock in fact to me 

The most amazing shock to see 

The way it clung 

On one, so young! 

She's a girl, 

A little girl! 

Getting older, it is true 

Which is what they always do 

Till that unexpected hour 

When they blossom like a flower! 

Oh no (2x) 

But...but, 

There's sweeter music when she speaks 

Isn't there? 

Could I be wrong? 

Could it be so? 

Oh where, oh where 

Did Gigi go? 

Gigi! Am I a fool without a mind 

Or have I merely been too blind to realise? 

Oh Gigi! Why you've been growing up before my very eyes 

Gigi! You're not at all 

That funny, awkward little girl, I knew 

Oh no! Over night there's been a breathless change in you 

Chorus Verse: 

Oh Gigi! While you were trembling on the brink 

Was I out yonder somewhere blinking at a star? 

Oh Gigi! Have I been standing up too close 

Or back too far? 

When did your sparkle turn to fire? 

And your warmth become desire? 

Oh what miracle has made you the way you are? 

Gigi! (3x) 

Oh no! I was mad not to have seen the change in you 

Oh Gigi!