Marvin Hamlisch
Sing!-Glee cast version Mike and Tina
See, I really couldn't sing

♪ I could
Never really sing ♪

♪ What I couldn't do is ♪
♪ Sing ♪

♪ I have trouble with the ♪

♪ Note ♪
♪ It goes all
Around my ♪

♪ Throat ♪
♪ It's a
Terrifying ♪

♪ Thing ♪
♪ See, I really couldn't ♪

♪ Hear which note
Was lower or was♪

♪ Higher ♪
♪ Which is why ♪
♪ I disappear if
Someone says ♪

♪ Let's start a ♪
♪ Choir ♪

♪ Hey, when I begin to...
♪ Squeak ♪

♪ It's a cross between a... ♪
♪ Shriek ♪

♪ And a quiver or a... ♪
Moan ♪

♪ It's a little like a... ♪
♪ Croak ♪

♪ Or the record player... ♪ B♪

♪ What it doesn't have is... ♪
♪ Tone ♪

♪ Oh, I know you're thinking
What a crazy ♪
(tempo slows)
♪ Ding-a-ling ♪

♪ But I really couldn't ♪
♪ Sing ♪

♪ I could never really ♪
♪ Sing ♪

♪ What I couldn't do is ♪
♪ Sing ♪

But what I lack in pitch

I sure make up in...

♪ Power... ♪

And all my

Friends say I am
Perfect for the...

♪ Shower! ♪

♪ Still...
I'm terrific at a ♪
♪ Dance ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm
Messing up my ♪
♪ Pants ♪

♪ I'm a birdie on the ♪
♪ Wing ♪

♪ But if I begin to ♪
♪ Chirp ♪

♪ They say who's the little ♪
♪ Twerp ♪

♪ Going pong instead of ♪
♪ Ping ♪

♪ And when Christmas comes
And all my friends go ♪

ALL (tempo slowing):
♪ Caroling... ♪

♪ It is so dishearten ♪
♪ Ning ♪

♪ It is so disquiet ♪
♪ Ting ♪

♪ It is so discourage ♪
♪ Ging ♪

♪ Darling, please stop answer ♪

♪ Ring ♪

♪ See, I really
Couldn't ♪
♪ Sing ♪

♪ What I couldn't
Do is ♪

♪ Do re mi fa so la to do
Do re mi fa so la ti do ♪

♪ La ♪
♪ La ♪

♪ La ♪

♪ La... ♪

♪ Sing, sing, sing
Sing, sing, sing ♪

(shrieks):
♪ Sing! ♪