Selected Lyrics

Elegantly risque, suffused with understated emotion, delightful in their bursts of comic invention, the witty and romantic lyrics of Cole Porter evoke a golden age of song. Here is the cream of half a century of songwriting, from the Jazz Age resonance of “Let’s Misbehave” to such 50s classics as “Too Darn Hot” and “It’s All Right With Me”-more than ninety of the most enduring works of America’s master of bittersweet sophistication.