Boardwalk Empire’s 2012 Grammy
This category used to be called The Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television. Now if they kept it that way, Boardwalk Empire probably wouldn’t even have been in the running since these are not new songs written specifically for the show. But it’s nice that they changed it, because they didn’t have Grammy Awards back when these songs were made, so you can think Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker and all the original singers are smiling down on Boardwalk Empire.
Whatever it’s called, the songs in Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1 are fantastic. They include “The Sheik Of Araby,” ” Darktown Strutters Ball,” “After You Get What You Want (You Don’t Want It),” “Some of These Days,” “Japanese Sandman,” 10 more plus this one being sung by Stephen DeRosa who plays Eddie Cantor on Boardwalk Empire — “The Dumber They Come, The Better I Like ‘Em.”
I may look simple but i want you to know
I’ve been to college — I’m full of knowledge.
I’m right at home with brainy men and them my wisdom I show
But when there’s clever girls around I get up and go!
Those educated babies are a bore —
I’m gonna say what i said many times before.
Oh, the dumber they come, the better i like ’em,
cause the dumb ones know how to make love.
A Weisenheimer has you meet her folks when you call,
The brainless baby always keeps you down in the hall.
Oh the dumbbells I’ve met have won beauty prizes,
They look like angels sent from above.
A clever girl will want to know if you mean to wed —
The dumb ones never think of looking that far ahead.
That’s why the dumber they come, the better I like ’em
Cause the dumb ones know how to make love.
That’s why the dumber they come, the better I like ‘em
Cause the dumb ones know how to make love
The smart girl’s speaking Greek and other languages too,
But the dumb girl’s only language is who’s poochy poochy is you?
Oh, the saps that I’ve met have won beauty prizes
They look like angels sent from above
You start by squeezing clever girls — you’re soon on the shelf,
But when you’re with dumb Doris, you can just be yourself.
That’s why the dumber they come, the better I like ’em
Cause the dumb ones know how to make love.
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