The Quintessential - Volume 1

Irving berlin

The snow is snowing
The wind is blowing
But i can weather the storm
Why do i care how much it may storm
I've got my love to keep me warm

I can't remember
A worse december
Just watch those icicles from
Why do i care if icicles form
I've got my love to keep me warm

Off with my overcoat
Off with gloves
I need no overcoat
I'm burning with love

My heart's on fire
The flame grows higher
So i will weather the storm
Why do i care how much it may storm
I've got my love to keep me warm

Lewis / peter derose

Sometimes i wonder
What's in store for me
Your love could open
Heaven's door to me
But you don't care a straw for me
That's life i guess

My days and nights
Are starting off with you
My sugar kisses taste like salt to you
But why should i find fault with you
That's life i guess.

The world was bright when you loved me
Sweet was the touch of your lips
The world went dark when you left me
And then there came a total eclipse
Nobody knows how cruel fate can be
How close together love and hate can be
Goodbye, just clean the slate for me
That's life i guess

Tot seymour / vee lawnhurst

Please keep me in your dreams
In your sweet dreams let me hold you
When through your window
The breeze comes swingin'
It's just bringin' this love song that i'm singin'
Please keep me in your dreams
My kiss it seems must have told you
My heart you'll borrow until tomorrow
So please keep me in your dreams

Johnny mercer / richard whiting

Sentimental and melancholy
Whenever i think about you
It's only a mood,
A brief interlude
That's better described as just feeling blue

I suppose that it's just my folly
To keep it alive as i do
But it's a kind of sugar coated misery
And foolish as it seems
I thought i'd like to be
Sentimental and melancholy
Whenever i think about you

Dorothy fields / jimmy mchugh

Don't want my manny
I don't need a friend
My heart is broken
It won't ever mend
I ain't much carin'
Just where i will end
I must have that man

I'm like an oven
That's cryin' for heat
He treats me awful
Each time that we meet
It's just unlawful
How that boy can cheat
But i must have that man

He's hot as hades
A lady's not safe in his arms
When she's kissed
But i'm afraid that he's cooled off
And maybe i'm ruled off his list
I'll never be missed

I need that person much worse'n just bad
I'm falf alive and it's drivin' me mad
He's only human if he's to be had
I must have that man
Don't want my manny
I don't need a friend
My heart is broken
It won't ever mend
I ain't much carin'
Just where i will end
I must have that man

I'm like an oven
That's cryin' for heat
He treats me awful
Each time that we meet
It's just unlawful
How that boy can cheat
But i must have that man

He's hot as hades
A lady's not safe in his arms
When she's kissed
But i'm afraid that he's cooled off
And maybe i'm ruled off his list
I'll never be missed

I need that person much worse'n just bad
I'm half alive and it's drivin' me mad
He's only human if he's to be had
I must have that man

Ella fitzgerald / teddy mcrae / chick webb / green

You showed me the way
When i was someone in distress
A heart in search of happiness
You showed me the way

My sky was so gray
I never knew i'd feel a thrill
I couldn't dream a dream until
You showed me the way

The moment you found me
The shadows around me
Just disappeard from view
The world became rosy
Each corner so cozy
Darling, all because of you
You showed me the way
And if i've learned that love can be a paradise
For you and me
Here's all i can say
You showed me the way

Dorothy fields / jimmy mchugh

I can't give you anything but love, baby
That's the only thing i've plenty of, baby
Dream a while scheme a while
We're sure to find
Happiness and i guess
All those things you've always pined for
Gee, i'd like to see you looking swell, baby
Diamond bracelets woolworth doesn't sell, baby
Till that lucky day
You know darned well, baby
I can't give you anything but love

Walter samuels / leonard whitcup / teddy powell

If my heart could only talk
Heaven would be mine
If my heart could only talk
Life would be divine
You would hear my song of love so tender
It would thrill you until you willingly surrender

If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'neath the starlight i would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could onlitalk

If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'neath the starlight i would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could only talk