. "Lorenz Hart" . . "296484"^^ . "6"^^ . . "98.0"^^ . "Sing For Your Supper" . "Songs from musicals" . "false"^^ . . "english" . "-9.7"^^ . "5714dee825ac0d8aee546c70" . . "ae28b572-e179-44e6-be45-a8e62b6f362a" . . . . "TRPWXEM128E07942C9" . "Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart" . "Sing For Your Supper" . "false"^^ . "Songs with music by Richard Rodgers" . "539" . "true"^^ . . "0.288803"^^ . "-0.093242"^^ . "USMC16750375" . "167000.0"^^ . . "1"^^ . "1930s jazz standards" . "1938 songs" . "2007-10-29"^^ . "%22Sing for Your Supper%22 is an American popular song by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The song was debuted in their 1938 Broadway musical the Boys from Syracuse, in which it was performed as a trio with Muriel Angelus, Marcy Westcott and Wynn Murray. The lyrics describe a singer performing to earn his meals: %22Sing for your supper, / And you'll get breakfast. / Songbirds always eat / If their song is sweet to hear.%22 The song has been recorded by numerous jazz and pop artists over the years, including Rudy Vall\u00E9e, Count Basie, Mel Torm\u00E9, Helen Humes, the Mamas & the Papas and Cher. Author Ethan Mordden used the title for his 2005 study of the Broadway musical in the 1930s, Sing for Your Supper: the Broadway Musical in the 1930s." . "1101841" . .