Bette Midler

Songwriter: Nellie Lutcher

Producer: Aaron Russo Arif Mardin Lew Hahn

Hurry on down to my house, honey
Ain't nobody home but me
Hurry on down to my house, baby
Oh, I'm blue as I can be
I love you, you love me
A-hurry through the alley
So the neighbors don't see
Hurry on down to my house, honey
Ain't nobody home but me
Hurry on down to my house, baby
Ain't nobody home but me
Hurry on down to my house, baby
I'm blue as I can be
Oh, blue when the clock a-went
Tick-tock-tick
Ooh, c'mon, honey, quick, quick, quick
Hurry on down to my house, baby
Ain't nobody home but me
Say, hurry, hurry, a-nobody's home
Hurry on down, baby
I'm blue as I can be
Oh, please come down
Just as soon as you can
If you don't come down
I got to call Sam
You know the man is crazy about me
Ain't nobody home but me
Well, what's goin' on with the three of you's?
C'mon, c'mon, make it snappy c'mon, c'mon
Work out, work out, go, babe, get down
Get down oh Lord, nobody's home
Say, hurry on down to my house, baby
Ain't nobody home
Haul it down, drag it down
Any way to get it down
I'm blue as I can be
Ashes-to-ashes, dust-to-dust
C'mon, honey, you must, you must
Hurry on down to my house, baby
Ain't nobody home but me
Hurry, hurry, a-nobody's home
Haul it down and drag it down
You know I can't stand to be alone
Operator, get me hillside, four zero nine
A-don't stop ringin'
'Til you get that baby's line
He's gonna haul it down
Ain't nobody home but, you believe it
There's nobody home but me

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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