How well do you remember the lyrics to ''Baby, It's Cold Outside''?
Been hoping that you'd drop in.
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" was never intended to be a Christmas song. It began as a party amusement, something closer to Semisonic's "Closing Time," in other words, a song to sing at the end of the night to get everyone to leave. Frank Loesser, the writer behind Guys and Dolls, penned the tune, and originally sang it with his wife at soirées circa World War II.
At the end of the decade, Loesser sold the song to MGM, who stuck it in the 1949 romantic comedy Neptune's Daughter, starring swimming starlet Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán. That year, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Eight — yes, eight! — different recordings of the call-and-response duet were released in 1949 alone, including popular versions by Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Shore and Johnny Mercer.
Dean Martin is likely responsible for turning it into a holiday tune. The crooner included it on his 1959 album A Winter Romance, alongside some other Christmas carols. Over the years, the song has been covered dozens of times by the likes of Zooey Deschanel, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Barry Manilow and Seth MacFarlane, as it has increasingly sparked debate.
You have undoubtedly heard it and heard about it several times. So, think you can remember the lyrics?
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So very nice… I'll hold your ______, they're just like ice.
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My father will be pacing the floor… Listen to the _______ roar.
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So, really, I'd better scurry… Beautiful, please don't _______.
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I wish I knew how… Your eyes are like _______ now.
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My brother will be there at the door… Waves upon a _______ shore.
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My maiden aunt's mind is _______… Gosh, your lips are delicious!
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Well, maybe just a _______ more… Never such a blizzard before.
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Say, lend me a _______? It's up to your knees out there!
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At least there will be plenty implied… If you caught ________ and died.
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I really can't stay… Get over that old _______.
