| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y |
| Song Title | Source | Dates | Notes |
| Wait for the Moon | Greenwich Village Follies | Per. Sep 1924 Pub. Sep 1924 © 1924 |
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| Wait Until It's Bedtime | Wake Up and Dream | Per. Mar 1929 © 1977 |
Dropped from the New York production |
| The Waiters [see What a Priceless Pleasure] | |||
| Waiters v. Waitresses | Gay Divorce [UK production] |
Per. Nov 1933 | No music or lyrics survive |
| Wake, Love, Wake | See America First | Per. Feb 1916 | No music or lyrics survive |
| Wake Up and Dream | Wake Up and Dream | Per. Mar 1929 Pub. Mar 1929 © 1929 |
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| Waltz Down the Aisle | Anything Goes [unused] | Pub. Nov 1934 © 1934 |
Rewrite of "When We Waltz Down the Aisle" from Ever Yours; later considered for Jubilee |
| War Song | Independent song | Wr. 1915-20 © 1971 |
Parody of Kern & Reynolds' "They Didn't Believe Me" |
| Washington, D.C. | Something for the Boys [unused] | Wr. 1942 © 1967 |
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| Washington Square | As You Were | Per. Jan 1920 © 1920 |
Lyrics by Porter and E. Ray Goetz; music by Melville Gideon; also see "In Chelsea Somewhere" |
| Watching the World Go By | Fifty Million Frenchmen [unused] | Per. Nov 1929 © 1983 |
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| We Are Maidens Typical of France [see Maidens Typical of France] | |||
| We Are Prom Girls | The Kaleidoscope | Per. Apr 1913 © 1983 |
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| We Are So Aesthetic | The Pot of Gold | Per. Nov 1912 © 1976 |
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| We Are the Chorus of the Show | And the Villain Still Pursued Her | Per. Apr 1912 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| We Detest a Fiesta | Panama Hattie | Per. Oct 1940 © 1977 |
Also known as "Opening Act II, Scene I" |
| We Drink to You, J. H. Brody | Leave It To Me | Per. Oct 1938 © 1974 |
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| We Open in Venice | Kiss Me Kate | Per. Dec 1948 Pub. Feb 1949 © 1949 |
Also known as "Opening, Padua Street Scene" |
| We Shall Never Be Younger | Kiss Me Kate [unused] | Wr. 1948 © Mar 1955 |
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| We're a Group of Nonentities | The Kaleidoscope | Per. Apr 1913 © 1971 |
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| We're About to Start Big Rehearsin' | Red, Hot and Blue | Per. Oct 1936 © 1971 |
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| We're Off | Cora | Per. Nov 1911 | No music or lyrics survive |
| We're Off for a Hayride in Mexico | Mexican Hayride [unused] | Wr. 1943 © 1977 |
Originally intended as the opening number |
| We're Off to Feathermore | Jubilee | Per. Sep 1935 © Sep 1935 |
Also known as "Feathermore" |
| We're on the Road to Athens | Out of This World [unused] | Per. Nov 1950 © 1977 |
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| We've Been Spending the Summer With Our Families |
The New Yorkers [unused] | Wr. 1930 © 1983 |
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| The Wedding Cakewalk | You'll Never Get Rich | Per. Oct 1941 Pub. Jul 1941 © 1941 |
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| A Weekend Affair | Gay Divorce [unused] | Wr. 1932 © 1979 |
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| Welcome to Jerry | Panama Hattie | Per. Oct 1940 © 1983 |
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| Well, Did You Evah? | Du Barry Was a Lady | Per. Nov 1939 Pub. Jan 1940 © 1940 |
Lyrics were revised for High Society |
| Well, Did You Evah? | High Society | Per. Aug 1956 Pub. Aug 1956 © 1956 |
Revision of the song from Du Barry Was a Lady |
| Well, I Just Wouldn't Know | Something for the Boys [unused] | Wr. 1942 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| Well, It's Good to Be Here Again | See America First | Per. Feb 1916 © 1983 |
May have been dropped before the New York opening |
| Were Thine That Special Face | Kiss Me Kate | Per. Dec 1948 Pub. Nov 1948 © 1948 |
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| Weren't We Fools | Independent song | Pub. Nov 1927 © 1927 |
Written for Fanny Price's night club act |
| What a Ball | Silk Stockings [unused] | Wr. 1955 © 1966 |
Replaced by "The Red Blues" |
| What a Charming Afternoon | The Pot of Gold | Per. Nov 1912 © 1976 |
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| What a Crazy Way to Spend Sunday | Mexican Hayride | Per. Dec 1943 © 1944 |
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| What a Fair Thing is a Woman | Can-Can [unused] | Wr. 1952 © Sep 1952 |
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| What a Great Pair We'll Be | Red, Hot and Blue | Per. Oct 1936 Pub. Nov 1936 © 1936 |
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| What a Joy to Be Young | Anything Goes [unused] | Per. Nov 1934 © 1966 |
Also known as "To Be in Love and Young" |
| What a Nice Municipal Park | Jubilee | Per. Sep 1935 © Sep 1935 |
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| What a Priceless Pleasure | You Never Know [unused] | Per. Mar 1938 © 1967 |
Also known as "The Waiters" |
| What Am I to Do | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Per. Oct 1939 © 1971 |
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| What are Little Husbands Made Of | Let's Face It [unused] | Wr. 1941 © 1977 |
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| What Do You Think About Men? | Out of This World | Per. Nov 1950 © May 1955 |
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| What Does Your Servant Dream About? | Kiss Me Kate [unused] | Wr. 1948 © 1967 |
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| What Fun | Les Girls [unused] | Wr. 1956 © 1977 |
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| What Have I? | Du Barry Was a Lady [unused] | Wr. 1939 © 1966 |
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| What Is That Tune? | You Never Know | Per. Mar 1938 Pub. Oct 1938 © 1938 |
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| What Is This Thing Called Love? | Wake Up and Dream | Per. Mar 1929 Pub. Mar 1929 © 1929 |
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| What Love Is | Paranoia | Per. Apr 1914 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| What Say Let's Be Buddies [see Let's Be Buddies] | |||
| What Shall I Do? | You Never Know | Per. Mar 1938 Pub. May 1938 © Jan 1938 |
Copyrighted under the title "What Should I Do?" |
| What Will Become of Our England? | Gay Divorce | Per. Nov 1932 © 1983 |
Dropped from the London production |
| What's My Man Gonna Be Like? | The Vanderbilt Revue | Per. Nov 1930 © 1983 |
Written especially for Evelyn Hoey |
| What's This Awful Hullabaloo? | The Pot of Gold | Per. Nov 1912 © 1976 |
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| When a Body's in Love | See America First [unused] | Per. Feb 1916 © 1983 |
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| When a Woman's in Love | Mississippi Belle [unproduced] | Wr. Apr 1943 Pub. 1975 © 1970 |
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| When All's Said and Done | Leave It To Me | Per. Oct 1938 © 1966 |
Replaced "When the Hen Stops Laying" |
| When Black Sallie Sings Pagliacci | Hitchy-Koo of 1919 | Per. Aug 1919 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| When I Found You | Paris [unused] | Wr. 1928 © 1983 |
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| When I Had a Uniform On | Hitchy-Koo of 1919 | Per. Aug 1919 Pub. Aug 1919 © 1919 |
Also known as "Demobilization Song" |
| When I Used to Lead the Ballet | The Pot of Gold | Per. Nov 1912 © 1916 |
Also used in See America First |
| When I Was a Little Cuckoo | Seven Lively Arts | Per. Nov 1944 Pub. Feb 1945 © 1945 |
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| When I'm Eating Around With You | Yale song | Wr. 1912 © 1983 |
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| When Love Beckoned | Du Barry Was a Lady | Per. Nov 1939 Pub. Nov 1939 © 1939 |
Also known as "When Love Beckoned in (on) Fifty-second Street" |
| When Love Comes to Call | Can-Can [unused] | Wr. 1953 Pub. 1975 © 1972 |
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| When Love Comes Your Way | Jubilee | Per. Sep 1933 Pub. Sep 1933 © 1933 |
Dropped from Nymph Errant; also considered for Ever Yours |
| When McKinley Marches On | Mississippi Belle [unproduced] | © 1983 | No music survives, but probably set to the music of "When Johhny Comes Marching Home" |
| When Me, Mowgli, Love | Jubilee | Per. Sep 1935 © Sep 1935 |
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| When My Baby Goes to Town | Something for the Boys | Per. Dec 1942 Pub. Jan 1943 © 1943 |
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| When My Caravan Comes Home | Hitchy-Koo of 1922 | Per. Oct 1922 Pub. Oct 1922 © 1922 |
Also known as "My Caravan" |
| When the Hen Stops Laying | Leave It To Me [unused] | Per. Oct 1938 © 1967 |
Replaced by "When All's Said and Done" |
| When the Summer Moon Comes 'Long | Yale song | Wr. 1909 Pub. 1975 © 1971 |
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| When We Waltz Down the Aisle | Ever Yours [unproduced] | Wr. 1933-34 | Revised for Anything Goes as "Waltz Down the Aisle" |
| When We're Home on the Range | Something for the Boys | Per. Dec 1942 © 1979 |
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| When We're Wed | Independent song | Per. 1912 © 1983 |
Also known as "Once We're Wed" |
| When You and I Were Strangers | Mississippi Belle [unproduced] |
Wr. 1943-44 © 1969 |
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| When Your Troubles Have Started | Red, Hot and Blue [unused] | Per. Oct 1936 Pub. 1975 © 1966 |
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| Where? | Red, Hot and Blue [unused] | Wr. 1936 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| Where Are the Men? | Anything Goes | Per. Nov 1934 © 1936 |
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| Where Can One Powder One's Nose? | The New Yorkers [unused] | Wr. 1930 © 1983 |
Also known as "Opening Reuben's Scene" |
| Where Do We Go From Here? | Seven Lively Arts [unused] | Wr. 1944 © 1967 |
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| Where Have You Been? | The New Yorkers | Per. Nov 1930 Pub. Nov 1930 © 1930 |
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| Where Is the Life That Late I Led? | Kiss Me Kate | Per. Dec 1948 Pub. Feb 1949 © 1949 |
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| Where, Oh Where? | Out of This World | Per. Nov 1950 Pub. Sep 1950 © Aug 1949 |
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| Where Would You Get Your Coat? | Fifty Million Frenchmen | Per. Nov 1929 © 1966 |
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| Where's Louie? | Du Barry Was a Lady | Per. Nov 1939 © 1977 |
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| Wherever They Fly the Flag of Old England | Around the World in Eighty Days | Per. Apr 1946 Pub. Apr 1946 © 1946 |
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| Which? | Paris [unused] | Pub. Feb 1928 © 1928 |
Revised as "Which is the Right Life?" |
| Which is the Right Life? | Wake Up and Dream | Per. Mar 1929 © 1928 |
Revised lyrics to Which? from Paris |
| Who, But You? | Red, Hot and Blue [unused] | Wr. 1936 © 1967 |
Also considered for Born to Dance |
| Who Has? | High Society [unused] | Wr. 1956 © 1983 |
Unfinished |
| Who Knows? | Rosalie | Per. Dec 1937 Pub. Sep 1937 © 1937 |
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| Who Said Gay Paree? | Can-Can [unused] | Wr. 1952 Pub. 1975 © Sep 1952 |
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| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | High Society | Per. Aug 1956 Pub. Oct 1956 © Oct 1955 |
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| Who Would Have Dreamed? | Panama Hattie | Per. Oct 1940 Pub. Oct 1940 © 1940 |
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| Who'll Bid? | Mississippi Belle [unproduced] | Wr. 1943 © 1969 |
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| Why Am I So Gone About That Gal? |
Les Girls | Per. Nov 1957 Pub. Oct 1957 © Dec 1956 |
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| Why Can't I Forget You? | Leave It To Me [unused] | Wr. 1938 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| Why Can't You Behave? | Kiss Me Kate | Per. Dec 1948 Pub. Nov 1948 © 1948 |
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| Why Didn't We Meet Before? | A Night Out | Per. Sep 1920 | Lyrics by Clifford Grey |
| Why Do You Want to Hurt Me So? | Out of This World [unused] | Wr. 1950 © 1950 |
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| Why Don't We Try Staying Home? | Fifty Million Frenchmen [unused] | Per. Nov 1929 Pub. 1975 © 1966 |
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| Why Is It? | High Society [unused] | Wr. 1956 | Unifinished |
| Why Marry Them? | Gay Divorce | Per. Nov 1932 © 1979 |
Dropped from the London production |
| Why Not? [see So What?] | |||
| Why Should I Care? | Rosalie | Per. Dec 1937 Pub. Sep 1937 © 1937 |
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| Why Should I Trust You? | Silk Stockings [unused] | Wr. Nov 1954 © 1966 |
Replaced by "Siberia" |
| Why Shouldn't I? | Jubilee | Per. Sep 1935 Pub. Sep 1935 © 1935 |
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| Why Shouldn't I Have You? | Fifty Million Frenchmen | Per. Nov 1929 © 1978 |
Replaced "Down With Everybody But Us" |
| Why Talk About Sex? | The New Yorkers [unused] | Wr. 1930 | No music or lyrics survive |
| Widow's Cruise | Independent song | Wr. 1919 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| Wild Wedding Bells | Greek To You [unproduced] | Wr. 1938 © 1978 |
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| Will You Love Me When My Flivver is a Wreck? | See America First | Wr. 1916 | No music or lyrics survive; probably not written by Porter |
| Without Love | Silk Stockings | Per. Nov 1954 Pub. Nov 1954 © 1954 |
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| A Woman's Career | Kiss Me Kate [unused] | Wr. 1948 © 1966 |
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| Wond'ring Night and Day | Mayfair and Montmartre [unused] | Wr. 1922 © 1922 |
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| Wonderland | High Society [unused] | Wr. 1956 | Unfinished |
| Won't You Come Crusading With Me? | Paranoia | Per. Apr 1914 | Rewritten as "Prithee, Come Crusading with Me" for See America First |
| Woodland Dance | See America First | Per. Feb 1916 | Instrumental; no music survives |
| Wouldn't It Be Crazy? | Something for the Boys [unused] | Wr. 1943 © 1983 |
No music survives |
| Wouldn't It Be Fun | Aladdin | Per. Feb 1958 Pub. Feb 1958 © 1958 |
Porter's last song |
| Wow-Ooh-Wolf | Seven Lively Arts | Per. Nov 1944 Pub. Mar 1945 © 1945 |
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| Wunderbar | Kiss Me Kate | Per. Dec 1948 Pub. Nov 1948 © 1948 |
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