"Fit as a Fiddle (and Ready for Love)" is a song featured in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain sung by Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood and Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown. Aside from a brief sung prologue, this is the first musical number in the film, in which Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) recounts his vaudeville past touring with Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor). Though Donald paints this as a highbrow theatrical tour, the reality that we see is much seedier, as Don and Cosmo are playing low-rent music halls in backwater towns. Despite the considerable energy and skill that Don and Cosmo put into this song-and-dance routine, they are booed lustily by the local crowd.
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Fit as a fiddle and ready for love
I can jump over the moon up above
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love
Haven't a worry, haven't a care
Feel like a feather that's floating on air
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love
Soon the church bells will be ringing
And I'll march with Ma and Pa
All the church bells will be ringing
With a hey naughty-knotty and a hot cha-cha
Hi diddle-diddle, my baby's okay
Ask me a riddle, and what did she say?
Fit as a fiddle and ready for love
