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"Hi-De-Hi"

Lyrics:

Cab Calloway:

You got to Ho-De-Ho

Betty Boop :

You gotta to Ho-De-Ho

Cab Calloway:

You got to Hi-De-Hi

Betty:

You gotta Hi-De-Hi

Cab Calloway:

You got to He-De-He to get along with me

Betty Boop:

Yeah, man

How do

Cab Calloway:

You've gotta learn my song

Betty Boop:

I gotta learn your song

Cab Calloway:

If you do me wrong

Betty:

I'm gonna do you wrong

Cab Calloway:

You gotta kick the gong to get along with me

Betty Boop:

What you gone do now?

Cab Calloway:

Gonna do the best I can!

Cab Calloway:

Ya gotta Hi-De-Hi

Betty Boop:

Ya gotta Hi-Di-Hi

Cab Calloway:

Ya gotta Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi

Betty Boop:

Ya gotta Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi

Cab Calloway:

Ya gotta He-De-He-De-He-De

To get along with

Cab Calloway:

Hey

Betty Boop:

Hi

Cab Calloway:

Hey

Betty Boop:

Whoa!

Cab Calloway:

Ho

Betty Boop: 

Argh....


Video

Hi-De-Hi_by_Betty_Boop_(Song_Only)

Hi-De-Hi by Betty Boop (Song Only)

Trivia

  • The song is performed by Mae Questel and Cab Calloway in The Old Man of the Mountain.  
  • Bonnie Poe was Betty Boop's speaking voice in the same cartoon. As Poe also used to sing as Betty in a majorty of the cartoons, it is unknown as to why she did not sing "Hi-De-Hi" along with Cab Calloway and instead was replaced for the sequence by Questel. If you listen very carefully, you can hear the change in Betty's vocals from speaking to singing. A possibility could be that it was recorded beforehand.
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