"Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a song featured in the 1951 film An American in Paris with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. This orchestral version of the song was cut out of the film, but a vestige of it remains near the beginning when Henri "Hank" Baurel (Georges Guétary) sings the song along with a piano played by Adam Cook (Oscar Levant).
Lyrics[]
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
That's nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
Oh, that's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it
Won't you tell me how?
