I will say goodbye, I will walk away
I will speak the words you would heard me say
I will walk away, I will walk alone
I will not look back for I turned to stone
More than just farewell, more than just goodbye
It would be as if we'd never met
You will hear the words, you would have me say
You would have me say, you are not my love
You are not my love, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, my love
I will say goodbye, I will close the door
I was doing all right
Nothing but rainbows in my sky
I was doing all right
Till you came by.
Had no cause to complain
Life was as sweet as apple pie
Never noticed the rain
Till you came by.
But now whenever you're away
Can't sleep nights and suffer all the day
I just sit and wonder
If love isn't one big blunder.
But when you hold me tight
Tingling all through, I feel somehow
I was doing all right
But I'm doing better than ever now.
But now whenever you're away
Can't sleep nights and suffer all the day
I just sit and wonder
If love isn't one big blunder.
But when you hold me tight
Tinglin' all through, I feel somehow
I was doing all right
But I'm doing better
I cried for you
Now its your turn to cry over me
Every road has a turning
That's one thing you're learning
I cried for you
What a fool I used to be
Now I've found two eyes
Just a little bit bluer
I've found a heart
Just a little bit truer
I cried for you
Scat...
Well Monk set it straight
There's not a time when you wait
You gotta be on
You gotta be strong
The time is here
So trust your life
To your ear
Don't wait for no one
They'll have to grow on
Because the homeland is the place where it happens
And there's no one who can help you to straight no
This monk had a way
Of being out of his day
Ahead of his time
Not in the same rhyme with other guys
He was uncommonly wise
He knew the answer
That time's a dancer
You know you can't back up the moment
And take it with you
On the road
My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet youre my favourite work of art
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But dont change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But dont you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
The night is like a lovely tune, beware my foolish heart!
How white the ever constant moon, take care, my foolish
heart!
There's a line between love and fascination,
That's hard to see on an evening such as this,
For they give the very same sensation.
When you are lost in the passion of a kiss.
Your lips are much too close to mine, beware my foolish
heart!
But should our eager lips combine, then let the fire
start.
For this time it isn't fascination, or a dream that will
fade and fall apart,
Who do you think is comin to town
Youll never guess who
Lovable, hugable Emily Brown
Miss Brown to you
What if the rain comes pattering down
My heaven is blue
Can it be sending me emily brown
Miss Brown to you
I know her eyes will thrill ya
But go slow, oh, oh
Dont you all get too familiar
Why do you think shes comin to town
Just wait and youll see
The lovable little miss brown to you
Is baby to me, yes, yes
I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad
I long to try something I've never had
Never had no kissin'
Oh, what I've been missin'
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
The night is cold and I'm so all alone
I'd give my soul just to call you my own
Got a moon above me
But no one to love me
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
I've heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like a heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you'll make love to me
Strange as it seems
Someday we'll meet
And you'll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ears
Hugging and a kissing
Oh, what we've been missing
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
Now I've heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like a heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you'll make love to me
Strange as it seems
Someday we'll meet
And you'll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ears
A hugging and a kissing
Oh, what we've been missing
I could cry salty tears
Where have I been all these years?
Little wow, tell me now
How long has this been goin' on?
There were chills up my spine
And some thrills I can't define
Listen sweet, I repeat
How long has this been goin' on?
Oh, I feel that I could melt
Into heaven I'm hurled
I know how Columbus felt
Finding another world
Kiss me once, then once more
What a dunce I was before
What a break, for heaven's sake
How long has this been goin' on?
------ piano ------
Let me dream that it's true
Kiss me twice, then once more
That makes thrice, let's make it four
What a break, for heaven's sake
If the moon turns green
And shadows get up and walk around
Clouds come tumbling to the ground
I wouldn't be surprised
As didn't you fall in love with me
If the stars turn blue
And willows that weep began to sing
Winter changes into spring
I wouldn't raise my eyes
'Cause didn't you fall in love with me
I thought I was foolish to think of romance
With someone as charming as you
I thought I was hoping without any chance
Then every hope came true
If the moon turns green
And rivers began to flow upstream
This is all a crazy dream
I wouldn't be surprised
Anything can happen
If you can fall in love with me
I thought I was foolish to think of romance
With someone as charming as you
I thought I was hoping without any chance
Then every hope came true
If the moon turns green
And rivers began to flow upstream
This is all a crazy dream
I wouldn't be surprised
'Cause anything can happen
I'm a sentimental sap that's all
What's the use of trying not to fall
I have no will, you've made your kill
Cause you took advantage of me
I'm just like an apple on a bough
And you're going shake me down somehow
But what's the use, you've cooked my goose
Cause you took advantage of me
I'm so hot and bothered that I don't know my elbow from
my ear
I suffer something awful each time you go, it's much
worse when you're near
Here am I with all my bridges burned
Just a babe in arms where you're concerned
So lock the doors and call me yours
Cause you took advantage of me
I have no will, you've made your kill
Cause you took advantage of me
Tell me, what's the use, you've cooked my goose
Cause you took advantage of me
Say, I'm so hot and bothered that I don't know my elbow
from my ear
I suffer something awful each time you go, it's much
worse when you're near
Here am I with all my bridges burned
Just a babe in arms where you're concerned
So lock the doors and call me yours
Mine was a simple story
Never a thought of glory
I did what I did and what I had
I was glad to posses
But you changed my whole direction
And now that I've seen perfection
How could I settle for less?
I was the shyest lover
Ready to run for cover
But look at me now
I'm not the same, I aim to impress
You gave me a glance at heaven
And given a change at heaven
How could I settle for less?
Could Caesar span Cleopatra's door?
Columbus turn once he saw the shore?
I, I don't want fame or treasure
Miracles made to measure
The beautiful things that people
Rate the greatest success
I only want you forever
And you and I close together
How could I settle for?
How, how could I settle?
How could I settle for less?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me daddy, how could I settle for less?
I wanna know, I want to know
It happened
I felt it happened
I was awake
I wasn't blind
I didn't think
I felt it happened
now I believe in matter over mind.
And now you see we mustn't wait
the nearest moment that we marry is too late!
Have you met Miss Jones
someone said as we shook hands
She was just Miss Jones to me
Then i said Miss Jones
you're a girl who understand
I'm a boy who must be free.
And all at once I lost my breath
and all at once was scared to death
and all at once I hold the earth and sky!
Now I met Miss Jones
and well keep on meeting till we die
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
Then gay youth was mine
And truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Forsooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Of yesterdays
Then gay youth was mine
The truth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
when i fall in love
it will be for ever
or I'll never fall in love
in a wrest lest world like this is
love is ended before it's began
and too many moonlight kisses
seem too cool in the warmth of the sun
when i give my heart
it will be completely
or i never give my heart
and the moment that i feel
that you feel that way too
is when i fall i love with you
when i give my heart
it will be fo ever
or i will never never never never
give my heart
and the moment
that i feel
that you feel the same way too
is when i give my heart
I'm travellin' light
Because my man has gone
And from now on
I'm travellin' light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I'm travellin' light
No one to see
I'm free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
But until then
I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes
Youve got a certain lil cute way of flirtin with
Them there eyes
They make me feel happy
They make me feel blue
No stallin
Im fallin
Going in a big way for sweet little you
My heart is jumpin
Sure started somethin with
Them there eyes
Youde better watch them if youre wise
They sparkle
They bubble
Theyre gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble
Youre overworkin them
Theres danger lurkin in
Them there eyes
Maybe you think Im just flirtin
Maybe you think Im all lies
Just because I get romantic when I gaze in
When the mellow moon begins to beam
Every night I dream a little dream
And of course Prince Charming is the theme
The he, for me.
Although I realize as well as you
It is seldom that a dream comes true,
To me it's clear
That he'll appear.
Some day he'll come along, the man I love
And he'll be big and strong, the man I love
And when he comes my way,
I'll do my best to make him stay.
He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand
And in a little while, he'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word.
Maybe I shall meet him Sunday,
Maybe Monday, maybe not
Still I'm sure to meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day.
He'll build a little home just meant for two
From which I'll never roam, who would? would you?
And so, all else above,
Won’t you stop and take a little time out with me, just
take five;
Stop your busy day and take the time out to see I’m
alive.
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
take five, just take five.
[Improvisation]
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'm wise to all those tricks you played on me
I'm gonna turn my back on love
Gonna snob the moon above
Seal all my windows up with tin
So the love bug can't get in
Park my romance right alone the curb
Hang a sign upon my heart
"please don't disturb"
And if i never fall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw the key
And it i never tall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I!m gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'll never fall in love again
I'm gonna lock my heart
You know, uh, ... When I'm making out a show,
I might get the first, four tunes, just like that
and then I will ah, get to the 5th song, and I say -oh,
shit, what can I put in there?
and If I can't get find something, I say, -I can't
lose, If I sing the blues.
If I Should take a notion to go and jump into the ocean
It ain't nobody's bizness if I do.
And if I choose to go to church on Sunday
and then I feel like shrunken all day Monday,
no, T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do.
And if I,if my man, If he ain't got no money,
which is usually the case,
and I wanna say to him -come on and take all my money-
T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do
I said, IF I do.
and if I rather call my man to get me instead of
jumping up and quite me, ohh, baby,
T'ain't nobody's bizness, nobody's bizness if, if I do
Now this is the truth, so hell.
ah, ah, yeah, yeah,
Now if I swear, I wont fall no coper
If I should get beat up by my papa
you better believe,
that T'ain't nono of your bizness if I do
T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do
I say T'ain't nobody's bizness what I do
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Isn't it rich, are we a pair
Me here at last on the ground - and you in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss, don't you approve
One who keeps tearing around - and one who can't move
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Just when I stopped - opening doors
Finally knowing the one that I wanted - was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines - nobody's there
Don't you love a farce; my fault I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want - sorry my dear
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here
Isn't it rich, isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny
Likewise the man who works for fame
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is for girl and boy meant
Fall in love and you won't regret it
That's the best work of all, if you can get it
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?"
(bridge)
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
Nice work if you can get it
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
Sometimes I say
If I could just gey away
With my man
He'd go straght sure as fate
For it never is too late
For a man
I just like to dream
Of a cottage by a stream
With my man
Where a few flowers grew
And perhaps a kid or two
Like my man
And then my eyes get wet
I 'most forget
'Till he gets hot
And tells my not to talk such rot
Oh, my man, I love him so
Hell never know
All my life is just a spare
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
Whats the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I'm his forevermore
Whats the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know Ill come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
You’re talking so sweet
Well you needn’t
You say you won’t cheat
Well you needn’t
You’re tapping your feet
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
You’re dressing with class
Well you needn’t
You’re holding your sass
Well you needn’t
You’re think you’re a gas
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
You had your fun
So take a bow
You ought to know
You lost the blow
The beat is low
The shadows grow
The lights are low
It’s time to go
Let’s close this show down
You’re taking off weight
Well you needn’t
You’re looking just great
Well you needn’t
You’re setting the bait
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
Scat…
You play enough game
Well you needn’t
It’s more of the same
Well you needn’t
You’re coming off lame
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
You’re bending my ear
Well you needn’t
You’re calling me dear
Well you needn’t
You’re acting sincere
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
Don’t wanna see
Don’t need a row
You had you’re day
Your matinee
You had to stray
You know they say
You gonna play
You gotta face
So find a way out
You say that you try
Well you needn’t
You say you won’t lie
Well you needn’t
You’re starting to cry
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
Ev'ry time we say goodbye I die a little
Ev'ry time we say goodbye I wonder why a little
Why the Gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go
And when you're near there's such an air of spring about
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer but how strange the change
from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye
Why the Gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go
And when you're near there's such an air of spring about
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer but how strange the change
from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye, ev'ry time we say goodbye
Ev'ry time we say goodbye, ev'ry time we say goodbye
My life was empty when you went away
Even the blue skies above had turned gray
But now that you've come back
My dream of life is here to stay
Those little quarrels that tore us apart
Oh, gee, I can see
They were wrong from the start
But now that you've come back
Hush now, dont explain
Just say youll remain
Im glad your back, dont explain
Quiet, dont explain
What is there to gain
Skip that lipstick
Dont explain
You know that I love you
And what endures
All my thoughts of you
For Im so completely yours
Cry to hear folks chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, dont matter
When youre with me, sweet
Hush now, dont explain
Youre my joy and pain
My lifes yours love
Ruby, My Dear
Hold back that tear
I know he’s gone
Your love has flown
You’re all alone
Oh, I know you cry
There’s no reply
Pain lingers on
It doesn’t go
Cos you’ll say so
One day he came to you
And made the music play
In his way
You said you’d rather die
Than say goodbye
But there’ll come a day
Though he’s away
You’ll sing his song
You’ll carry on
Ruby, My Dear
One day he came to you
And made the music play
In his way
You said you’d rather die
Than say goodbye
But there’ll come a day
Though he’s away
You will sing his song
You’ll carry on
Coffee time, my dreamy friend, it's coffee time
Let's listen to some jazz and rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
Let me show a little coffee house I know
Where all the new Bohemians go
To have a cup of coffee
Greetin' time, the music box is beatin' time
It's good old-fashioned meetin' time
So grab a chair and dig me there
For that's just the place that I'm at
Coffee time, my dreamy friend, it's coffee time
Let's sing this silly little rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
(Orchestral Break)
Greetin' time, the music box is beatin' time
It's good old-fashioned meetin' time
Grab a chair and dig me there
For that's just the place that I'm at
Coffee time, my dreamy friend it's coffee time
Let's sing this silly little rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
And have a cup of coffee
Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet, so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet and so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
My heart is sad and lonely
For I have lost, my one and only
Why haven’t you seen it
I’m all for you
Body and soul
I spend my days in longin’And wondering why
it’s me you’re (ogling)
I tell you I mean it
I’m all for you body and soul
I can’t believe it
It’s hard to conceive it
That you turn away romance
Are you pretending
or is this the ending?
Please, please give me one more chance to prove dear
My life a hell you’re making
You know I’m yours for just the taking
I’d gladly surrender myself to you
Body and soul
My life a wreck you're making
My heart is yours for just the taking.
I'll gladly surrender
I was talking to the whippoorwill
He says you've got a corny trill
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
I was talking to the mockingbird
He says you are the worst he's heard
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
Even the owl tells me you're foul singing those lullaby notes
Don't be a bring down if you can swing down
Give me those high notes
There's a lotta talk about you, Bob
And they're saying you're off the cob
Fake it, Mister B
Take it, follow me, Bob White
I was talking to the whippoorwill
He says you've got a corny trill
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
I was talking to the mockingbird
He says you are the worst he's heard
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
Even the owl tells me you're foul singing those lullaby notes
Don't be a bring down if you can swing down
Give me those high notes
There's a lotta talk about you, Bob
And they're saying you're off the cob
Fake it, Mister B
You better take it, follow me, Bob White
We're gonna break it up tonight
You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song
You are the angel-glow that lights a star
The dearest things that I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine
(You are the angel-glow that lights a star)
The dearest things that I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
It begins to tell,
'Round midnight, midnight.
I do pretty well, till after sundown,
Suppertime I'm feelin' sad;
But it really gets bad,
'Round midnight.
Memories always start 'round midnight.
Haven't got the heart to stand those memories,
When my heart is still with you,
And ol' midnight knows it, too.
When a quarrel we had needs mending,
Does it mean that our love is ending?
Darlin' I need you, lately I find
You're out of my heart,
And I'm out of my mind.
Let our hearts take wings,
'Round midnight, midnight
Let the angels sing,
For your returning.
Till our love is safe and sound.
And old midnight comes around.
Feelin' sad,
Really gets bad
Round, Round, Round Midnight
Verses by Jon Hendricks on the album Carmen Sings Monk
A pale and lonely moon
Lights the sky in the dark
Before the dawn
I sit here in my room how I sigh
For the day that's come and gone
Another lonely day passes by
And a new day's coming on
At midnight
Tears I've shed today
Will pause waiting until tomorrow
Dreams of what could become close to me
Timidly
There's a brand new day in sight
At that time 'round midnight
Life's a game of chance
And you're one of the minor players
Look for what you love
The day to come harbours some
Let your spirit stop the fight
At that time 'round midnight
Every day's gonna bring some sadness
Every day's gonna bring some gladness
So take what you can of the glad times
Don't measure your pleasure in nickels and dines
You better look back on the day
And you'll know when you've been unhappy
Fears don't chased away just mighty might have the day
Let your eyes put out their light
At that time round midnight
I'll think no more about today
For in a while this old day will be yesterday
Alone at midnight here in my room
I sit here in the gloom
And let my dreams take flight
Cathedral bells were tolling
And our hearts sang on
Was it the spell of Paris
Or the April dawn?
Who knows if we shall meet again
But when the morning chimes ring sweet again
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine
Embraces all day through
In that small cafe
The park across the way
The children's carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well
I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day
In everything that's light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
I've flown around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
The North Pole I have charted
But can't get started with you
Down on the golf course I'm under par
And all the movies want me to star
I've got a house a show place
Still I get no place with you
You're so supreme
The lyrics I write of you
Scheme just for the sight of you
Dream both day and night of you
Till what good dose it do
I've been consulted by Franklin D.
And Frank Sinatra had me to tea
Still I'm broken hearted
Cause I can't get started with you
When first we met how you elated me
Pet, you devastated me
Yet, now you've deflated me
'Till, you're my Waterloo
When J.P. Morgan bows I just nod
Green Pastures wanted me to play God
The Siamese Twins I've parted
Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free
So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you
Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my heart's an open door
I'm sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life, I'm in love
I've got a song that I sing
I can make the rain go
Any time I move my finger
Lucky me, can't you see, I'm in love
Life's a wonderful thing
As long as I hold the string
I'd be a silly so-and-so
Whenever skies look gray to me
And trouble begins to brew,
Whenever the Winter winds become too strong,
I concentrate on you.
When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!" to me
And people declare "You're through!",
Whenever the blues become my only song,
I concentrate on you.
On your smile so sweet, so tender,
When at first your kiss I decline.
On the light in your eyes when I surrender,
And once again our arms intertwine
And so, when wise men say to me
That love's young dream never comes true,
To prove that even wise men can be wrong,
Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand
Wouldst kiss me pretty? Wouldst hold my hand?
Both thine eyes are cute too, what they do to me
Hear me holler, I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee
I'd feel so rich in a hut for two
Two rooms and kitchen I'm sure would do
Give me just a plot of, not a lot of land
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard for love to ever last
My heart has been well schooled 'cause I've been fooled in the past
That's why I fall in love too easily, ooh I fall in love too fast
I, I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard for love to ever last, it never lasts
My heart has been well schooled 'cause I've been fooled in the past
You're mean to me
Why must you be mean to me?
Gee, honey, it seems to me
You love to see me cryin'
I don't know why
I stay home each night
When you say you phone
You don't and I'm left alone.
Sing the blues and sighin'
You treat me coldly each day in the year
You always scold me
Whenever somebody is near, dear
I must be great fun to be mean to me
You shouldn't forget, you see
From ages to ages the poets and sages,
Of love glorious love always sing,
But ask any lover and you'll soon discover,
The heartaches that romance can bring,
When you're alone, who cares for starlit skies
When you're alone, the magic moonlight dies
At break of dawn, there is no sunrise
When your lover has gone
What lonely hours, the evening shadows bring
What lonely hours, with memories lingering
Like faded flowers, life can't mean anything
Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note,
Though by tomorrow you're gone;
The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote,
The melody lingers on.
They may take you from me, I'll miss your fond caress.
But though they take you from me, I'll still possess.
The way you wear your hat
The way your sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no, they can't take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no, they can't take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still, I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no, they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me
W e may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still, I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no, they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me
Can't take that away
I know why I've waited
Know why I've been blue
Prayed each night for someone
Exactly like you
Why do we spend money
On a show or two?
No one does those love scenes
Exactly like you
You make me feel so grand
I wanna hand the world to you
You seem to understand
Each foolish little scheme I'm scheming
And the dreams I'm dreaming
And I know, I know
Why my mother taught me to be true
She made me for someone
Exactly like you
You make me feel so grand
I want to hand the world to you
You seem to understand
Each foolish little scheme I'm scheming
And the dreams I'm dreaming
I know, I know
Why my mother taught me to be true
She made me for someone
She made me for someone
She made me for someone
Won’t you stop and take a little time out with me, just
take five;
Stop your busy day and take the time out to see I’m
alive.
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
take five, just take five.
[Improvisation]
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
Hey, hey, I love my man,
Tell the world I do.
Yeah, I love my man,
Tell the world I do.
But the way he mistreats me
Makes me feet so blue.
Yeah, yeah, I love that man,
I'm a liar if I say I don't.
Yes, I love that man,
I'm a liar if I say I don't.
But I'll quit that man,
I'm a liar if I say I won't.
I've been your slave,
Ever since I've been your babe.
I'm talkin' 'bout being your slave,
Ever since I've been your babe.
But before I'll be your dog,
I'll see you laying in your grave.
If you don't like my peaches,
Why do you shake my tree?
I said, if you don't dig the peaches, baby,
Stand back from the tree.
You'd better get out of my orchard,
And let my peach tree be.
Hey, I ain't good-lookin',
And my hair ain't hangin' down in curls.
I ain't good-lookin' and my hair ain't curls.
But you can believe my mame she give me
something,
It's gonna carry me through this world.
Some men like me 'cause I'm happy,
Some'cause I'm snappy,
Some call me honey,
Those of 'em think I got money.
Some say, "McRae, you are truly built for speed
So if you wrap it all together,
Makes me everything a good man needs . . .
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