Need to relax
Need to escape
Go see Fay Wray
In the palm of an ape
Watch Errol Flynn
Shooting his bow
Just go to the movies
Just go to a picture show
Oh, when your morale
Needs some repairs
Watch Busby's Beauty
Descending the stairs
Hundreds of girls
Doing high kicks
Just go to the movies
Just go to the flicks
And all for the sum
Of a quarter
Life is peachy
You can become
Alice Faye or Donna Meachie
Swamped with your bills
Late with your rent
Watch Betty Davis
Run out on George Brent
See Fred Astaire
Steppin' in style
When everything's dark and upset
Go calling on Clark and Claudette
Just go to a marvelous movie
And smile
Girls in sarongs
Monsters in capes
See Scarlet make a dress
Out of the drapes
Life can be grand
From the third row
Just go to the movies
Just go to a picture show
Oh, Cooper in Wings
Crawford in Reign
See Tarzan beat his chest
When he meets Jane
Sing with Dick Powell
Ride with Tom Mix
Just go to the movies
Just go to the flicks
Vicariously
You are flying down to Rio
Share the marquee
With Mrs. Marks' zany trio
So when your life
Seems a bit lean
Just let some shadows
Appear on the screen
Shine on your face
Shine like a star
For a brief while
Whenever you're down in the dumps
Try putting on Judy's red pumps
And visit a gun-toting sharpie
A moth-eaten harpy
A dangerous beauty
A cutey-doll cutie
An ancient high llama
A high-steppin' mama
Just go to the movies
And smile
Just go to the movies
Just go to the movies
Just go to the movies