unknown

If you hear
A song in blue
Like a flower crying
For the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss

If you hear a song that grows
From my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose
A prelude to a kiss

Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A shubert tune with a gershwin touch

Oh how my love song gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss

(bridge)

Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A shubert tune with a gershwin touch

Oh how my love song so gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
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
Of yesterdays

When i was very young
The world was younger than i
As merry as a carousel

The circus tent was strung
With every star in the sky
Above the ring i loved so well

Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsel and gold

Sit there, and count your fingers
What can you do?
Old girl, you're through
Sit there, and count your little fingers
Unlucky, litle girl blue

Sit there, and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time you knew
All you can count on is the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue

No use, old girl
You may as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender
Blue boy
To cheer little girl blue?

No use, old girl
You may as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender
Blue boy
To cheer little girl blue?

In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die
I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
Nobody could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit and i stare
I know that i'll soon go mad
In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear lord above
Send back my love
Alternative lyric:
In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die
I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit and i stare
I know that i'll soon go mad
In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear lord above
Send back my love

All too soon
We had to part
The moment you had touched my heart
And with you went my dream
All too soon

All too sweet
Was our affair
And you put all the sweetness there
What a shame that it's gone
All too soon

I knew the strange delights
That only you in love could bring
And as i reached the heights
The bottom fell from everything

You should know as well as i
Our love deserves another try
For we whispered goodbye
All too soon
Too soon

Zoom zoom zoom zoom
The world is in a mess
With politics and taxes
And people grinding axes
There's no happiness

Zoom zoom zoom zoom
Rhythm lead your ace
The future doesn't fret me
If i can only get me
Someone to slap that bass

Happiness is not a riddle
When i'm listening to that
Big bass fiddle

Slap that bass
Slap it till its dizzy
Slap that bass
Keep the rhythm busy
Zoom zoom zoom
Misery, you've got to go

Slap that bass
Use it like a tonic
Slap that bass
Keep your philharmonic
Zoom zoom zoom
And the milk and honey'll flow

Dictators would be better off
If they zoom zoom now and then
Today, you can see that the happiest men
All got rhythm

In which case
If you want a bauble
Slap that bass
Slap away your trouble
Learn to zoom zoom zoom
Slap that bass

(bridge)

Dictators would be better off
If they zoom zoom now and then
Today, you can see that the happiest men
All got rhythm

In which case
If you want a bauble
Slap that bass
Slap away your trouble
Learn to zoom zoom zoom
Slap that bass

Zoom zoom zoom zoom
Zoom zoom zoom zoom
Zoom zoom zoom zoom

Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When charlie chingee make his sing song swing

Charlie ching
Make his sing song swing
With a tingaling
On the ding dong ding

With a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing

Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When charlie chingee make his sing song swing

Foo yung foo
Makee doodle-doo
With a toot or two
On the flute bamboo

And the doodle-doo and the tingaling
Makee plenty sing song swing

Choppity chop chop, chop chopsticks
Choppity chop chop, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When charlie chingee make his sing song swing

{instrumental interlude}

{scat}
And a tingaling on the ding dong ding
Makee plenty sing song swing

Chop chop choppity, chop chopsticks
Chop chop choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When charlie chingee make his sing song swing

Choppa choppa choppity, chop chopsticks
Choppity choppity, chop till six
Choppity chop chop, chops the thing
When charlie chingee make his swing

When your down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon i will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.
You just call out my name,
And you know whereever i am
I'll come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring , summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And i'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've got a freind.
If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together and call my name out loud
And soon i will be knocking upon your door.
You just call out my name and you know where ever i am
I'll comning running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you got to do is call
And i'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, ain't it good to know that you've got a freind?
People can be so cold.
They'll hurt you and desert you.
Well they'll take your soul if you let them.
Oh yeah, but don't you let them.
You just call out my name and you know wherever i am
I'll come running to see you again.
Oh babe, don't you know that,
Winter spring summer or fall,
Hey now, all you've got to do is call.
Lord, i'll be there, yes i will.
You've got a freind.
You've got a freind.
Ain't it good to know you've got a freind.
Ain't it good to know you've got a freind.
You've got a freind.

Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?

Oh skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane

And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music
Faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon
Sad as a gypsty serenading the moon

Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there
Oh skylark
Won't you lead me there?

The moon is the same moon above you
Aglow with its cool evening light
But shining at night, in tunisia
Never does it shine so bright

The stars are aglow in the heavens
But only the wise understand
That shining at night in tunisia
They guide you through the desert sand

Words fail, to tell a tale
Too exotic to be told
Each night's a deeper night
In a world, ages old

The cares of the day seem to vanish
The ending of day brings release
Each wonderful night in tunisia
Where the nights are filled with peace

(bridge)
(scat)

{repeat all twice}
(scat)
Each wonderful night in tunisia

I've got you under my skin.
I've got you deep in the heart of me.
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me.
I've got you under my skin.
I'd tried so not to give in.
I said to myself: this affair never will go so well.
But why should i try to resist when, baby, i know so well
I've got you under my skin?

I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of a warnin' voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality.
But each time that i do just the thought of you
Makes me stop before i begin
'cause i've got you under my skin.

(musical interlude)

I would sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of the warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats - how it yells in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Why not use your mentality - step up, wake up to reality?
But each time i do just the thought of you
Makes me stop just before i begin
'cause i've got you under my skin.
Yes, i've got you under my skin.

I ran around, with my own little crowd
The usual laughs, not often, but loud
And in the world that i knew
I didn't know about you

Chasing after the ring, on the merry-go-round
Just taking my fun, where it could be found
And yet what else could i do
I didn't know about you

Darling, now i know
I had the loneliest yesterday, everyday
In your arms
I know for once in my life, i'm living

Had a good time, everytime i went out
Romance was a thing, i kidded about
How could i know about love
I didn't know about you

Darling, now i know
I had the loneliest yesterday, everyday
In your arms
I know for once in my life, i'm living

Had a good time, everytime i went out
Romance was a thing, i kidded about
How could i know about love
I didn't know about you

I didn't know about you

"the lyrics were first written by oscar hammerstein ii and otto harbach for the london musical "three
Sisters", which premiered
In 1934. then when rko released the screen version in march of 1935, dorothy fields and jimmy mchugh
Changed the lyrics of the song, only keeping the title which oscar hammerstein ii originated."

I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance madame with you
My heart won't
Let me feet do things that they sould do

You know what, you're lovely you know what, you're so lovely

And you know what you do to me
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore
I feel so absolutely
Stumped on the floor

When you dance, you're chairming and you're gentle
Specially when you do the
Continental
But this feeling isn't purely mental
For heaven rest us, i'm not asbestos
And that's why i
Won't dance, why sould i?

I won't dance, how could i?
I won't dance, merçi beacoup

I know
That music lead the way to romance
So if i hold you in arms i won't dance

I won't dance, don't ask me

I won't dance, don't ask me
I won't dance madame with you
My heart won't let me feet do things that
They want to do

You know what, you're so lovely, ring a ding-ding, you're lovely
And you know what
You do to me
I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore
I feel so absolutely stumped on the
Floor

When you dance, you're chairming and you're gentle
Specially when you do the continental
But
This feeling isn't purely mental
For heaven rest us, i'm not asbestos
And that's why i won't dance, i
Won't dance

I won't dance, merci beaucoup
I know that music lead the way to romance

So if i hold
You in arms i won't dance

We'll have a blue room
A new room for two room
Where ev'ry day's a holiday
Because you're married to me.

Not like a ballroom
A small room, a hall room
Where i can smoke my pipe away
With your wee head upon my knee.

We will thrive on, keep alive on
Just nothing but kisses
With mister and missus
On little blue chairs.

You sew your trousseau
And robinson crusoe
Is not so far from worldly cares
As our blue room far away upstairs!

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....mid.....night....

Soon, my dear, you'll never be lonely,
Soon, you'll find i live for you only.
When i'm with you who cares what time it is
Or what the place or what the climate is?

Oh! soon, our little ship will become sailing
Home through every storm, never failing,
The day you're mine this world will be in tune,
Let's make that day come soon.

(bridge)

Oh! soon, our little ship will become sailing home
Through every storm, never failing,
The day you're mine this world will be in tune,
Let's make that day come soon.

It happened
I felt it happened
I was awake
I wasn't blind
I didn't think
I felt it happened
Now i belive 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 eatrh and sky!
Now i met miss jones
And we'll keep on meeting till we die
Miss jones and i

I love the look(s) of you, (and) the lure of you
The sweet of you, and the pure of you
The eyes, the arms, and the (that) mouth of you
The east, west, north, and the (that) south of you
I'd love to gain complete control of you
Handle even the heart and soul of you
Love at least a small percent of me do
'cause (because) i love all of you

It seems we stood and talked like this, before
We looked at each other in the same way then
But i can't remember where or when

The clothes you're wearing are the clothes, you wore
The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
But i can't remember where or when

Some things that happened for the first time
Seem to be happenin' again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before, and loved before
But who knows where or when

Some things that happened for the first time
Seem to be happenin' again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before, and loved before
But who knows where or when

Transcribed by todd peach <todd@thepeaches.com>


<the following intro is not sung by ella on this recording.>
<it is included here for academic interest.>
When you're awake, the things you think
Come from the dream you dream
Thought has wings, and lots of things
Are seldom what they seem
Sometimes you think you've lived before
All that you live to day
Things you do come back to you
As though they knew the way
Oh the tricks your mind can play

(scat)
Come on, wail
Wail, cotton tail
Benny webster, come on and blow for me

(scat)
That's cotton tail

I don't go out walking
I ain't for no talking
My baby's done left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'

If i had been scheming
Instead of just dreaming
He'd never have left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'

Sittin all day without holding my baby
Makes me so blue and sad
If he don't hurry and come back
It's a cinch to drive me mad

Now if i don't find him
I hope you'll remind him
That i'm staying where he left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'
All day

Don't go out a walking
And i for no talking
My baby's done left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'
All day

If i had been scheming
Instead of just dreaming
He'd never have left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'

Sittin all day without holding my baby
I miss my lonely papa
If he don't hurry and come back
It's a cinch to, i'll blow my toppa

Now if i don't find him
I hope you'll remind him
That i'm staying where he left me
Just a sittin' and a rockin'
Rockin' and a sittin'
Sittin' and a rockin'
All day

I've been married, and married, and often i've sighed
"i'm never a bridesmaid, i'm always a bride"

I never divorced them, i hadn't the heart
Yet remember these sweet words, "`till death do us part"

I married many men, a ton of them
Because i was untrue to none of them
Because i bumped off every one of them
To keep my love alive

Sir paul was frail, he looked a wreck to me
At night he was a horse's neck to me
So i performed an appendectomy
To keep my love alive

Sir thomas had insomnia, he couldn't sleep at night
I bought a little arsenic, he's sleeping now all right

Sir philip played the harp, i cussed the thing
I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing
And now he plays where harps are just the thing
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive

(bridge)

I thought sir george had possibilities
But his flirtations made me ill at ease
And when i'm ill at ease, i kill at ease
To keep my love alive

Sir charles came from a sanitorium
And yelled for drinks in my emporium
I mixed one drink, he's in memorium
To keep my love alive

Sir francis was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why
I tossed him off my balcony, to see if he, could fly

Sir atherton indulged in fratricide,
He killed his dad and that was patricide
One night i stabbed him by my mattress-side
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive

When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze
And touches with her hand the summer trees,
Perhaps you'll understand what memories i own.
There's a dance pavilion in the rain all shuttered down,
A winding country lane all russet brown,
A frosty window pane shows me a town grown lonely.
That spring of ours that started so april-hearted,
Seemed made for just a boy and girl.
I never dreamed, did you, any fall would come in view
So early, early.
Darling if you care, please, let me know,
I'll meet you anywhere, i miss you so.
Let's never have to share another early autumn.

As you listen to the band don't you get a bubble?
As you listen to them play don't you get a glow?
If you step out on the floor
You'll forget your trouble
If you go into your dance
You'll forget your woe
So:

Come
Get together
Let the dance floor feel your leather
Step as lightly as a feather
Let yourself go

Come
Hit the timber
Loosen up and start to limber
Can't you hear that hot marimba?
Let yourself go

Let yourself go
Relax
And let yourself go
Relax
You've got yourself tied up in a knot
The night is cold but the music's hot
So

Come
Cuddle closer
Don't you dare to answer "no, sir"
Butcher, banker, clerk and grocer
Let yourself go

Ain't got the change of a nickel
Ain't got no bounce in my shoes
Ain't go no fancy to tickle
I ain't got nothing but the blues
Ain't got no coffee that's perking
Ain't got no winnings to lose
Ain't got a dream that is working
I ain't got nothing but the blues
When trumpets flare up
I keep my hair up
I just can't make it come down
Believe me peppie,
I can't get happy
Since my ever loving baby left town
Ain't got no rest in my slumbers
Ain't got no feelings to bruise
Ain't got no telephone numbers
I ain't got nothing but the blues

I don't know what day it is
Or if it's dark or fair
Somehow, that's just the way it is
And i don't really care

I go to this or that place
I seem alive and well
My head is just a hat place
My breast an empty shell
And i've a faded dream to sell

All alone, all at sea
Why does nobody care for me?
When there's no love to hold my love
Why is my heart so frail?
Like a ship without a sail.

Out on the ocean,
Sailors can use a chart
I'm on the ocean
Guided by just a lonely heart

Still alone, still at sea
Still there's no one to care for me
When there's no hand to hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
For a ship without a sail

(bridge)

Still alone, still at sea
Still there's no one to care for me
When there's no hand to hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
For a ship without a sail

When the sun comes out
And that rain stops beatin' on my window pane
When the sun comes out
There'll be bluebirds 'round my door, singin' like they did before

That ol' storm broke out
And my man/gal walked off and left me in the rain
Though he's/she's gone i doubt
If he'll/she'll stay away for good,i'd stop livin' if he/she should

Love is funny, it's not always peaches, cream and honey
Just when everything looked bright and sunny
Suddenly the cyclone came, i'll never be the same

Til that sun comes out
And the rain stops beatin' on my window pane
If my heart holds out
Let it rain and let it pour, it may not be long before
There's a knockin' at my door
Then you'll know the one i love walked in
When the sun comes out

I don't want you
But i hate to lose you
You've got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

I forgive you
'cause i can't forget you
You've got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

I ought to cross you off my list
But when you come a-knocking at my door
Fate seems to give my heart a twist
And i come running back for more

I should hate you
But i guess i love you
You've got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

The weather is fright'ning
The thunder and lightning
Seem to be having their way
But as far as i'm concerned, it's a lovely day
The turn in the weather
Will keep us together
So i can honestly say
That as far as i'm concerned, it's a lovely day
And everything's o.k.

Isn't this a lovely day
To be caught in the rain?
You were going on your way
Now you've got to remain

Just as you were going, leaving me all at sea
The clouds broke, they broke and oh!
What a break for me

I can see the sun up high
Tho' we're caught in the storm
I can see where you and i
Could be cozy and warm

Let the rain pitter patter
But it really doesn't matter
If the skies are gray
Long as i can be with you it's a lovely day

(verse):
Why am i sitting alone tonight,
When i could be out where the lights are bright?
It's all because of jim, it's all because of jim.
Why am i wasting these precios years?
Why am i crying these bitter tears?
It's all because of jim, it's all because of jim.

(chorus):
Jim doesn't ever bring me pretty flowers,
Jim never tries to cheer my lonely hours,
Don't know why i'm so crazy for jim.
Jim never tells me i'm his hearts desire.
I never seem to set his love afire
Gone are the years i've wasted on him.
Sometimes when i get feeling low,
I say "let's call it quits."
Then i hang on and let him go
Breaking my heart in bits.
Some day i know tht jim will up and leave me,
But even if he does you can believe me,
I'll go on carrying the torch for jim.

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And i brought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

When we finally kiss goodnight
How i'll hate to go out in the storm
But if you really hold me tight
All the way home i'll be warm.

The fire is slowly dying
And my dear, we're still goodbying
But as long as you love me so,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

at last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
At last the skies above are blue
And my heart was wrapped up in clover
The night i looked at you
I found a dream that i can speak to
A dream that i could call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that i have never known
You smiled, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
And you are mine at last

Oh baby, won't you please come home
'cause your mama's all alone
I have tried in vain, never no more to call your name

When you left you broke my heart
Because i never thought we'd part
Ev'ry hour in the day...you will hear me say
Baby, won't you please come home

{sax solo}

When you left you broke my heart
Because i never thought we'd part
Ev'ry hour in the day...you will hear me say
Oh baby, my baby
Baby won't you please come home
'cause your mama needs some lovin'
Baby won't you please come on home

I never cared much for moonlit skies
I never wink back at fireflies
But now that the stars are in your eyes
I'm beginning to see the light
I never went in for afterglow
Or candlelight on the mistletoe
But now when you turn the lamp down low
I'm beginning to see the light
Used to ramble through the park
Shadowboxing in the dark
Then you came and caused a spark
That's a four-alarm fire now
I never made love by lantern-shine
I never saw rainbows in my wine
But now that your lips are burning mine
I'm beginning to see the light

I feel a sudden urge to sing the kind of ditty that invokes the spring
So, control your desire to curse while i crucify the verse
This verse i've started seems to me the "tin pan-tithesis" of melody
So to spare you all the pain, i'll skip the darn thing and sing the refrain

The night is young, the skies are clear
And if you want to go walkin', dear
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely

I understand the reason why
You're sentimental, 'cause so am i
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely

You can tell at a glance what a swell night this is for romance
You can hear, dear mother nature murmuring low "let yourself go"

So please be sweet, my chickadee
And when i kiss ya, just say to me
"it's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious,
It's dilemma, it's de limit, it's deluxe, it's de-lovely"

You can tell at a glance what a swell night this is for romance
You can hear dear mother nature murmuring low "let yourself go"

So please be sweet, my chickadee
And when i kiss ya, just say to me
"it's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious,
It's dilemma, it's de limit, it's deluxe, it's de-lovely"

This year's crop of kisses
Don't seem as sweet to me
This year's crop just misses
What kisses used to be
This year's new romance
Doesn't seem to have a chance
Even helped by mr. moon above
This year's crop of kisses is not for me
For i'm still wearin' last year's love

When i want to see the boys
I know where to find the boys
I don't go through a club or two
I just find you and there are the boys
To get you alone i strive
You ask me to tea at five
I find you then with other men
And wonder when my chance will arrive

How's chances, say, how are the chances
Of making you love me the way i love you

How many young men must i fight with
To be in right with
In right with you

How's chances for one of those glances
A glimpse of the heaven i'm longing to see

How's chances to end all your romances
And start taking your chances with me


[alternate bridge:]
My castle will need some restoring
Ceiling and flooring
Furniture, too

Try to think that love´s not around
But it´s uncomfortably near
My old heart ain´t gaining no ground
Because my angel eyes ain´t here

Angel eyes, that old devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need i say that my love´s mispent
Mispent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun you happy people
The laughs and the jokes on me

Pardon me but i got to run
The fact´s uncommonly clear
Got to find who´s now number one
And why my angel eyes ain't here
Oh, where is my angel eyes

Excuse me while i disappear
Angel eyes, angel eyes.

Contributed by bobbie

Before i met you no one attracted me
No love thoughts worried or distracted me
My disposition kept exempting me
Until you started in preempting me

And all this while, you've really been tempting me
Maybe you can tell me what we ought to do

Now that you've got me going, what you gonna do?
Is it up to me? is it up to you?
What kind of game is this we've begun?
Was it done, just for fun?

We have necked, till i'm wrecked
Won't you tell me what you expect?
Is this to be a case of kiss and never tell?
Folly and farewell
Heaven or maybe hell

Which is it going to be, love or gin?
Wife or sin? let's begin

(bridge)

We have necked, till i'm wrecked
Won't you tell me what you expect?
Is this to be a case of kiss and never tell?
Folly and farewell
Heaven or maybe hell

Which is it going to be, love or gin?
Wife or sin? let's begin

Verse

Potter:
Come on, you children, gather around -
Gather around, you children.
And we will lose that evil spirit
Called the voodoo.
Nothin' but trouble, if he has found,

If he has found you, children -
But you can chase the hoodoo
With the dance that you do.
Let me lead the way.
Jubilee today!
He'll never hound you;
Stamp on the ground, you children!
Come on!

Refrain

Clap-a yo' hand! slap-a yo' thigh!
Halleluyah! halleluyah!
Ev'rybody come along and join the jubilee!
Clap-a yo' hand! slap-a yo' thigh!
Don t you lose time! don't you lose time!
Come along-it's shake yo' shoes time
Now for you and me!
On the sands of time
You are only a pebble;
Remember, trouble must be treated
Just like a rebel;
Send him to the debble!
Clap-a yo' hand! slap-a yo' thigh!
Halleluyah! halleluyah!
Everybody come along and join the jubilee!

Oh, lullaby of birdland whisper low
Always here, when you sigh,
Never in my woodland could there be words to reveal
In a phrase how i feel.

Have you ever heard two turtle doves
Bill and coo when they love?
That's the kind of magic music we get from our lips
When we kiss

And there's a weepy old willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how i'd cry in my pillow
If you should tell me farewell and goodbye

Lullaby of birdland whisper low
Kiss me sweet, then we'll go
Flying high in birdland, high in the sky up above
All because we're in love

Lullaby, lullaby

Have you ever heard two turtle doves
Bill and coo when they love?
That's the kind of magic music we get from our lips
When we kiss

And there's a weepy old willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how i'd cry in my pillow
If you should tell me farewell and goodbye

Lullaby of birdland whisper low
Kiss me sweet, then we'll go
Flying high in birdland, high in the sky up above
And it's all because we're in love


Transcription by lindsey smith

Strange dear, but true dear,
When i'm close to you, dear,
The stars fill the sky,
So in love with you am i.
Even without you,
My arms fold about you,
You know darling why,
So in love with you am i.
In love with the night mysterious,
The night when you first were there,
In love with my joy delirious,
When i knew that you could care,
So taunt me, and hurt me,
Deceive me, desert me,
I'm yours, till i die.....
So in love.... so in love....
So in love with you, my love... am i....

Drop me off in harlem,
Any place in harlem,
There's someone waiting there
Who makes it seem like
Heaven up in harlem.

I don't want your dixie,
You can keep your dixie,
There's no one down in dixie who can take me
'way from my hot harlem,

Harlem has those southern skies,
They're in my baby's smile, i
Idolize my baby's eyes and
Classy up-town style,

If harlem moved to china,
I know of nothing finer,
Than to stow away on a 'plane some day and have them
Drop me off in harlem.

<bridge>

Harlem has those southern skies,
They're in my baby's smile, i
Idolize my baby's eyes and
Classy up-town style,

If harlem moved to china,
I know of nothing finer,
Than to stow away on a 'plane some day and have them
Drop me off in harlem.

<scat>
If harlem moved to china
I know nothing finer than to be in harlem

Summer journeys to niag'ra
And to other places aggra-
Vate all our cares.
We'll save our fares!

I've a cozy little flat in
What is known as old manhattan
We'll settle down
Right here in town!

We'll have manhattan
The bronx and staten
Island too.
It's lovely going through
The zoo!

It's very fancy
On old delancy
Street you know.
The subway charms us so
When balmy breezes blow
To and fro.

And tell me what street
Compares with mott street
In july?
Sweet pushcarts gently gli-ding by.

The great big city's a wonderous toy
Just made for a girl and boy.
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy!

We'll go to yonkers
Where true love conquers
In the whiles
And starve together dear, in chiles

We'll go to coney
And eat baloney on a roll
In central park we'll stroll
Where our first kiss we stole
Soul to soul

And "my fair lady" is a terrific show they say
We both may see it close, some day

The city's glamour can never spoil
The dreams of a boy and goil
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy!


Transcribed by todd peach <todd@thepeaches.com>
(from this specific recording)

Guy from bath england sent me this more complete version:
Verse

Summer journeys to niag'ra
And to other places aggra-
Vate all our cares.
We'll save our fares;

I've a cozy little flat in
What is known as old manhattan,
We'll settle down
Right here in town.

Chorus 1

We'll have manhattan,
The bronx and staten
Island too.
It's lovely going through the zoo.

It's very fancy
On old delancey
Street you know.
The subway charms us so,
When balmy breezes blow
To and fro.

And tell me what street
Compares with mott street
In july?
Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by.

The great big city's a wondrous toy
Just made for a girl and boy --
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy.

Chorus 2

We'll go to greenwich,
Where modern men itch
To be free,
And bowling green you'll see with me.

We'll bathe at brighton,
The fish you'll frighten
When you're in,
Your bathing suit so thin
Will make the shellfish grin,

Fin to fin.

I'd like to take a
Sail on jamaica
Bay with you,
And fair canarsie's lakes we'll view.

The city's bustle cannot destroy
The dreams of a girl and boy --
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy.

Chorus 3

We'll go to yonkers,
Where true love conquers
In the wilds
And starve together, dear, in childs'.

We'll go to coney
And eat bologny
On a roll,
In central park we'll stroll
Where our first kiss we stole,
Soul to soul.

And south pacific
Is a terrific
Show they say,
We both may see it close some day.

The city's clamour can never spoil
The dreams of a boy and goil --
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy.

Chorus 4

We'll have manhattan,
The bronx and staten
Island too,
We'll try to cross fifth avenue.

As black as onyx
We'll find the bronix
Park express,
Our flatbush flat, i guess,
Will be a great success,
More or less.

A short vacation
On inspiration
Point we'll spend,
And in the station house we'll end.

But civic virtue cannot destroy
The dreams of a girl and boy --
We'll turn manhattan
Into an isle of joy!

Savoy, the home of sweet romance,
Savoy, it wins you with a glance,
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.

Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.

How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;

The home of sweet romance,
It wins you at a glance,
Gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Just like a clinging vine,
So soft and sweet as wine,
So soft and close to mine, divine.

How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never, never, never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;

Jake
(to clara)
What, that chile ain't asleep yet? give him to me.
I'll fix him for you.
(jake takes the baby from clara)

Lissen to yo' daddy warn you,
'fore you start a-travelling,
Woman may born you, love you and mourn you,
But a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.

Mingo
Oh, a woman is a sometime thing.

Jake
Yo' mammy is the first to name you,
Then she'll tie you to her apron string,
Then she'll shame you and she'll blame you
Till yo' woman comes to claim you,
'cause a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.

Sporting life
Oh, a woman is a sometime thing.

Jake
Don't you never let a woman grieve you
Jus' cause she got yo' weddin' ring.
She'll love you and deceive you,
Take yo' clothes and leave you
'cause a woman is a sometime thing.

All
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.

Jake
There now, what i tells you; he's asleep already.

(baby wails)
(men at crap game laugh).

Squeeze me
But please don't tease me
C'mon and squeeze me
But please don't tease me

Want you to know i go for your squeezing
Want you to know it really is pleasing
Want you to know i ain't for no teasing
(scat)

Treat me sweet and gentle
When you say goodnight
Just squeeze me
But please don't tease me

I get sentimental
When you hold me tight
Just squeeze me
But please don't tease me

Missing you since you went away
Singin' the blues away each day
Counting the nights and waiting for you

I'm in the mood to let you know
I never knew i loved you so
Please say, you love me too

When i get this feeling
I'm in ecstasy
So squeeze me
But don't tease me

Missing you since you went away
Singin' the blues away each day
Counting the nights and waiting for you

I'm in the mood to let you know
I never knew i loved you so
Please say, you love me too

When i get this feeling
I'm in ecstasy
So squeeze me
But please don't tease me

C'mon and squeeze me
But please don't tease me
Hear me honey, talkin'
Squeeze me
But please don't tease me

[ella]
April skies are in your eyes
But darling, don't be blue

Don't cry,
Oh honey please
Don't be that way

Clouds in the sky
Should never make you feel that way

The rain
Will bring the violets of may
Tears are in vain so honey please don't be that way

As long as we
See it through
You'll have me
I'll have you

Sweetheart
Tomorrow is another day
Don't break my heart
Oh honey, please don't be that way

[louis]
Don't cry,
Oh honey please
Don't be that way

Clouds in the sky
Should never make you feel that way

The rain
Will bring the violets of may
Tears in vain
So honey please don't be that way

As long as we
Will see it through
You'll have me
And i'll have you

Sweetheart
Tomorrow is another day
Don't break my heart
Oh honey, please don't be that way

Don't cry


Don't cry, don't cry


Oh honey, please don't be that way

Oh honey, please don't be that way

Clouds in the sky

Dig those crazy sky

Should never make you feel that way

So don't be that way

Dig the rain

Pitter pitter pitter pitter patter

Bring the violets of may

Pitter patter of the rain drops

Tears in vain

Tears, tears

So honey please don't be that way

Don't be that way

As long as we

(scat)

Will see it through

(scat)

Oh baby, you'll have me

(scat)

And i'll have you

(scat)

Sweetheart

(scat)

Tomorrow is another day

Tomorrow is another day


Don't break my heart

(scat)

Oh honey, please don't be that way

(scat)

Looky here, baby don't cry

(scat)

Oh honey, please don't be that way

(scat)

Clouds in the sky

(scat)

Should never make you feel that way

(scat)

Yeah, don't cry

(scat)

Honey, please don't be that way

(scat)

Clouds in the sky

(scat)

Oh honey, please don't be that way

No honey, i'll never be that way

Sportin' life:
It ain't necessarily so,

All:
It ain't necessarily so.

Sportin' life:
De t'ings dat yo li'ble
To read in de bible -
It ain't necessarily so.

Li'l' david was small, but oh my!

All:
Li'l' david was small, but oh my!

Sportin' life:
He fought big goliath
Who lay down and dieth -
Li'l' david was small, but oh my!
Wadoo!

Ensemble:
Wadoo!

Sportin' life:
Zim bam boddle-oo!

Ensemble:
Zim bam boddle-oo!

Sportin' life:
Hoodle ah da waah da!

Ensemble:
Hoodle ah da waah da!

Sportin' life:
Scatty way!

Ensemble:
Scatty wah!

Sportin' life:
Yeah!
Oh jonah, he lived in de whale

All:
Oh jonah, he lived in de whale.

Sportin' life:
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen -
Oh jonah, he lived in de whale.

L'il' moses was found in a stream

All:
L'il' moses was found in a stream

Sportin' life:
He floated on water
'till ole' pharaoh's daughter
She fished him, she says from dat stream.

Wadoo!

Ensemble:
Wadoo!

Sportin' life:
Zim bam boddle-oo!

Ensemble:
Zim bam boddle-oo!

Sportin' life:
Hoodle ah da waah da!

Ensemble:
Hoodle ah da waah da!

Sportin' life:
Scatty way!

Ensemble:
Scatty wah!

Sportin' life:
Yeah!
It ain't necessarily so

All:
It ain't necessarily so

Sportin' life:
Dey tell all you chillun
De debble's a villun
But 'tain't necessarily so.

To get into hebbben
Don't snap fo' a sebben -
Live clean! don' have no fault!
Oh, i takes dat gospel
Whenever it's pos'ple -

But wid a grain of salt!

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,

All:
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,

Sportin' life:
But who calls dat livin'
When no gal'll give in
To no man what's nine hundred years?

I'm preachin' dis sermon to show
It ain't nessa, ain't nessa,
Ain't nessa, ain't nessa -

All:
It ain't necessarily so!

I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.

Tell me please,
Where can he be,
The loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony i'm dreaming of.

It'll be goodbye, i know
To my tale of woe,
When he says "hello!"

So i am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love!

You know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen
Comet and cupid and donder and blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy christmas eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?

Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
You'll go down in history

Under a blanket of blue
Just you and i beneath the stars.
Wrapped in the arms of sweet romance
The night is ours.

Under a blanket of blue
Let me be thrilled by all your charms
Darling, i know my heart will dance
Within your arms.

A summer night's magic, enthralling me so.
The night would be tragic, if you weren't here to shareit my dear,
Covered with heaven above.

Let's dream a dream of love for two,
Wrapped in the arms of sweet romance,
Under a blanket of blue.

(scat intro)

My love to you i bring
On account of you can sing
Bli-blip, bobby, flam, flam, flam, hit the yaddle oddle bayou

My love for you is true
On account of you can do
Bli-blip, bobby, flam, flam, flam, hit the yaddle oddle bayou

My poor heart, gives a start
Like a jitterbug, just won't stop
Mix your crooning, with my spooning
And let me blow my top, mop!

Your love to me i've sworn
On account of mine is y'orn
Bli-blip, bobby, flam, flam, flam, hit the yaddle oddle bayou

(scat interlude)

My poor heart, gives a start
Like a jitterbug, just won't stop
So mix your crooning, with my spooning
And let me blow my top, mop!

Your love to me i've sworn
On account of mine is y'orn
Bli-blip, bobby, flam, flam, flam, hit the yaddle oddle bayou

Everytime we say goodbye, i die a little,
Everytime 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.
When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it,
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,
Everytime we say goodbye.

When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it,
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,
Everytime we say goodbye.

'neath the stars, at bazaars
Often i've had to caress men
Five or ten, dollars then, i'd collect from all those yes-men
Don't be sad, i must add, that they meant no more than chess-men

Darling, can't you see?
'twas for charity?
Though these lips have made slips, it was never really serious
Who'd have thought, i'd be brought to a state that's so delirious?

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?

(spoken)
Kiss me twice, once more, thrice, make it four

What a break, for heaven's sake
How long has this been goin' on?

Back in the days of knights in armor
There once lived a lovely charmer
Swimming in the rhine
Her figure was divine

She had a yen for all the sailors
Fishermen and gobs and whalers
She had a most immoral eye
They called her lorelei

She created quite a stir
And i want to be like her

I want to be like that gal on the river
Who sang her song to the ships passing by
She had the goods and how she could deliver
The lorelei

She used to love in a strange kind of fashion
With lots of hey-ho-de-ho-hi-de-hi
And i can guarantee i'm full of passion
Like the lorelei

I'm treacherous, yeah-yeah
Oh, i just can't hold myself in check
I'm lecherous, yeah-yeah
I want to bite my initials on a sailor's neck

Each affair has a kick and a wallop
For what they crave, i can always supply
I want to be just like that other trollop
The lorelei

I want to be just like that other trollop
The lorelei

It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place
Except you and me
So set 'em' up joe, i got a little story
I think you should know
We're drinking my friend, to the end
Of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
I know the routine, put another nickel
In the machine
I feel kind of bad, can't you make the music
Easy and sad
I could tell you a lot, but it's not
In a gentleman's code
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
You'd never know it, but buddy i'm a kind of poet
And i've got a lot of things i'd like to say
And if i'm gloomy, please listen to me
Till it's talked away
Well that's how it goes, and joe i know your gettin'
Anxious to close
Thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind
My bending your ear
But this torch that i found, it's gotta be drowned
Or it's gonna explode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve its mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?

I saw you there one wonderful day
You took my heart and threw it away
That's why i ask the lord in heaven above
What is this thing called love?

<instrumental interlude>

I saw you there one wonderful day
You took my heart and threw it away
That's why i ask the lord in heaven above
What is this thing called love?

Transcribed by todd peach <todd@thepeaches.com>

Following is another version with additional verses:

I was a hum-drum person
Leading a life apart
When love flew in through my window wide
And quickened my hum-drum heart
Love flew in thorugh my window
I was so happy then
But after love had stayed a little while
Love flew out again

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve its mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
I saw you there one wonderful day
You took my heart and threw it away
That's why i ask the lawd in heaven above
What is this thing called love?

You gave me days of sunshine
You gave me nights of cheer
You made my life an enchanted dream
'til somebody else came near
Somebody else came near you
I felt the winter's chill
And now i sit and wonder night and day
Why i love you still?

Ding dong! the witch is dead. which old witch? the wicked witch!
Ding dong! the wicked witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the wicked witch is dead. she's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The wicked witch is dead!

Paradise can not refuse us
Never such a happy pair

Everybody must excuse us
If we walk on air

All the shadows now will lose us
Lucky stars are everywhere

As a happy being
Here's what i'm forseeing

For you, for me, forever more
It's bound to be forever more

It's plain to see
We found, by finding each other
The love we waited for

I'm yours, you're mine
And in our hearts
The happy ending starts

What a lovely world
This world will be
With a world of love in store
For you, for me, forever more.

(instrumental bridge)

What a lovely world
This world will be
With a world of love in store
For you, for me, forever more.

Whenever skies look grey to me
And trouble begins to brew
Whenever the winter winds
Begin to blow
I concentrate on you

When fortune cries nay, nay to me
And people declare "you're through"
Whenever the blues becomes my only song
I concentrate on you

On your smile to sweet so tender
When first my kiss you deny
On the love in your eyes
When you surrender
And once again our arms entertwine

And so when wise men say to me
That loves young dreams never come true
To prove that even wise men can be wrong
I concentrate on you.

Blow ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)

Go ill wind, go away
Skies are oh so gray
Around my neighborhood, and that's no good

You're only misleadin' the sunshine i'm needin'
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere, when love's to blame

So ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)

<musical interlude>

You're only misleadin' the sunshine i'm needin'
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere, when love's to blame

So ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)

Blow, ill wind, blow.

Gather 'round me, everybody
Gather 'round me, while i preach some
Feel a sermon coming on here
The topic will be sin
And that's what i'm agin'
If you wanna hear my story
Then settle back and just sit tight
While i start reviewing
The attitude of doing right

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween

You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, noah in the ark,
What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said, we better

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween

Now you say you're lonely
You cried the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
You drove me,
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me
Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you
You drove me
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me...
And now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do...
Come on! come on!
Cry me a river...
Cry me a river...
I cried a river over you
I cried a river over you...

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Through the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

Cho: jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, o
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

A day or two ago
I thought i'd take a ride
And soon miss fanny bright
Was seated by my side;
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot,
We ran into a drifted bank
And there we got upsot.

A day or two ago
The story i must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back i fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh
He laughed at me as
I there sprawling laid
But quickly drove away.

Now the ground is white,
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls along
And sing this sleighing song.
Just bet a bob-tailed bay,
Two-forty as his speed,
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.

Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves a sycamore
Moonlight in vermont
Gentle finger waves
Ski trails down a mountain side
Snowlight in vermont
Telegraph cables, how they sing down the highway
As they travel each bend in the road
And when people meet, in this romantic setting
They're so hypnotized be the lovely...
Evening summer breeze
Sweet warblings of the meadowlark
Moonlight in vermont

I wake up every morning with a smile on my face
Everything in its place as it should be
I start out every morning just as free as the breeze
My cares upon the shelf
Because i find myself with

No strings and no connections
No ties to my affections
I'm fancy free and free for anything fancy

No dates that can't be broken
No words that can't be spoken
Especially when i am feeling romancy

Like a robin upon a tree
Like a sailor that goes to sea
Like an unwritten melody
I'm free, that's me

So

Bring on the big attraction
My decks are cleared for action
I'm fancy free and free for anything fancy

Somethings gotta give,
Somethings gotta give
Somethings gotta give

When an irresistible force such as you
Meets and old immovable object like me
You can bet as sure as you live
Something's gotta give, something's gotta give,
Something's gotta give.

When an irrepressible smile such as yours
Warms an old implacable heart such as mine
Don't say no because i insist.
Somewhere, somehow,
Someone's gonna be kissed.

So en garde who knows what the fates have in store
From their vast mysterious sky?
I'll try hard ignoring those lips i adore
But how long can anyone try?

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight it with all of our might,
Chances are some heavenly star spangled night
We'll find out as sure as we live
Something's gotta give, something's gotta give,
Something's gotta give.

Fight, fight, fight it with all of our might,
Chances are some heavenly star spangled night
We'll find out as sure as we live
Something's gotta give, something's gotta give,
Something's gotta give.
Something's gotta , something's gotta give

You're my thrill
You do something to me
You send chills right through me
When i look at you
'cause you're my thrill
You're my thrill
How my pulse increases
I just go to pieces
When i look at you
'cause you're my thrill

Hmmm-nothing seems to matter
Hmmm-here's my heart on a silver platter
Where's my will
Why this strange desire
That keeps morning higher
When i look at you
I can't keep still
You're my thrill

Day in - day out

That same old voodoo follows me about

That same old pounding in my heart, whenever i think of you

And baby i think of you

Day in and day out


Day out - day in

I needn't tell you how my days begin

When i awake i get up with a tingle

One possibility in view

That possibility of maybe seeing you


Come rain - come shine

I meet you and to me the day is fine

Then i kiss your lips, and the pounding becomes

An oceans roar, a thousand drums

Can't you see it's love, can there be any doubt

When there it is, day in - day out

I've been a roaming romeo
My juliets have been many
But now my roaming days have gone
Too many irons in the fire
Is worse than not having any
I've had my share and from now on:

I'm putting all my eggs in one basket
I'm betting ev'rything i've got on you

I'm giving all my love to one baby
Heaven help me if my baby don't come through

I've got a great big amount
Saved up in my love account
Honey
And i've decided
Love divided
In two
Won't do

So
I'm putting all my eggs in one basket
I'm betting everything i've got on you

[2]
I've been a roaming juliet
My romeos have been many
But now my roaming days have gone
Too many irons in the fire
Is worse than not having any
I've had my share and from now on:

I'm putting all my eggs in one basket
I'm betting ev'rything i've got on you

I'm giving all my love to one baby
Heaven help me if my baby don't come through

I've tried to love more than one
Finding it just can't be done
Honey
There's one i lie to
When i try to
Be true
To two

So
I'm putting all my eggs in one basket
I'm betting everything i've got on you

Once i visited my cousin, in milwaukee, usa
She got boyfriends by the dozen, when she sang in a lowdown way
She was a positive sensation
The songs that she sang would never miss
My cousin was my inspiration
That's how i got like this

I got a cousin in milwaukee
She's got a voice so squawky
And though she's tall and kind of gawky
Oh, how she gets the men

Her singing isn't operatic
It's got a lot of static
What makes your heart get acrobatic
Nine times out of ten

When she sings hot, you can't be solemn
It sends the shivers up and down your spinal column
When she sings blue, the men shout, "what stuff!"
That baby is hot stuff

So if you like the way i sing songs,
If you think that i'm a wow
You can thank my squawky cousin from milwaukee
Because she taught me how

(instrumental bridge)

When she sings hot, you can't be solemn
It sends the shivers up and down your spinal column
When she sings blue, the men shout, "what stuff!"
That baby is hot stuff

So if you like the way i sing songs,
If you think that i'm a wow
You can thank my squawky cousin from milwaukee
Because she taught me how

Single-o, all the way
Rain or shine
Gonna stay, single-o
Till you're mine

Like the peach,
At the top, of the tree
Gonna stay, single-o
Till it's me

And though i don't know what caresses
You expect to find
I know my address is
Lonesomeville till you make up your mind

When you do
And it's me
You adore
Then i'll be
Single-o no more

And though i don't know what caresses
You expect to find
I know my address is
Lonesomeville till you make up your mind

When you do
And it's me
You adore
Then i'll be
Single-o no more

Yes, willow weep for me
Willow weep for me
Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea
Listen to my plea
Listen willow and weep for me

Yes, gone my lovers dream
Lovely summer dream
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream
Sad as i can be
Hear me willow and weep for me

Oh, whisper to the wind and say that love's a sin
Leave my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
So none will find me sighing, crying all alone

Oh, willow weep tree
Weeping sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, bend over willow and weep for me

<trumpet solo>

Whisper to the wind and say that love is sin
Leave my heart a-breaking, and making a moan
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
So none will find me sighing and crying all alone

Yes, willow weep tree
Weeping sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, bend over willow and weep for me
Yes

After one whole quart of brandy
Like a daisy, i'm awake
With no bromo-seltzer handy
I don't even shake

Men are not a new sensation
I've done pretty well i think
But this half-pint imitation
Put me on the blink

I'm wild again, beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep
When love came and told me, i shouldn't sleep
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

Lost my heart, but what of it
He is cold i agree
He can laugh, but i love it
Although the laugh's on me

I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And long, for the day when i'll cling to him
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

He's a fool and don't i know it
But a fool can have his charms
I'm in love and don't i show it
Like a babe in arms

Love's the same old sad sensation
Lately i've not slept a wink
Since this half-pint imitation
Put me on the blink

I've sinned a lot, i'm mean a lot
But i'm like sweet seventeen a lot
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And worship the trousers that cling to him
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

When he talks, he is seeking
Words to get, off his chest
Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best

Vexed again, perplexed again
Thank god, i can be oversexed again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am i

Wise at last, my eyes at last,
Are cutting you down to your size at last
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - no more

Burned a lot, but learned a lot
And now you are broke, so you earned a lot
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - no more

Couldn't eat, was dispeptic
Life was so hard to bear
Now my heart's antiseptic
Since you moved out of there

Romance, finis. your chance, finis.
Those ants that invaded my pants, finis.
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - no more

I am dejected. i am depressed.
Yet resurrected and sailing the crest.
Why this elation, mixed with deflation?
What explanation? i am in love.

Such conflicting questions rise
Around in my brain: should i order cynanide
Or order champagne?

Oh, what is this sudden jolt?
I feel like a frightened colt,
Just hit by a thunderbolt. i am in love.

I knew the odds were against me before,
I had no flair for flaming desire,
But since the gods gave me you to adore,
I may lose but i refuse to fight the fire,

So come and enlighten my days and never depart.
You only can brighten the blaze that burns in my heart,
For i am wildly in love with you,
And so in need of a stampede of love.

I knew the odds were against me before,
I had no flair for flaming desire,
But since the gods gave me you to adore,
I may lose but i refuse to fight the fire,

So come and enlighten my days and never depart.
You only can brighten the blaze that burns in my heart,
For i am wildly in love with you,
And so in need of a stampede of love,
And so in need of a stampede of love.

How glad the many millions of timothys and williams
Would be to capture me
But you had such persistence,
You wore down my resistance
I fell, and it was swell

You're my big and brave and handsome romeo
How i won you, i shall never, never know

It's not that you're attractive
But, oh, my heart grew active
When you came into view

I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time,
Hear me sigh
I never had the least notion
That i could fall with so much emotion

Could you coo?
Could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon my mush
'cause i've got a crush, my baby, on you

(instrumental break)

Could you coo?
Could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon my mush
'cause i've got a crush, my baby, on you

Yes, i've got a crush, my baby, on you

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
My romance doesn't need a thing but you

Supper time
I should set the table
'cause it's supper time
Somehow i'm not able
'cause that man o'mine
Ain't comin' home no more

Supper time
Kids will soon be yellin'
For their supper time
How'll i keep from tellin'
Them that man o'mine
Ain't comin' home no more?

How'll i keep explainin' when they ask me where he's gone?
How'll i keep from cryin' when i bring their supper on?
How can i remind them to pray at their humble board?
How can i be thankful when they start to thank the lord
Lord!

Supper time
I should set the table
'cause it's supper time
Somehow i'm not able
'cause that man o'mine
Ain't comin' home no more

I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between i drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand me down brew
I'll never know a sunday
In this weekday room

I'm talking to the shadows
1 o'clock to 4
And lord, how slow the moments go
When all i do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on monday
My sunday dream's too dry

Now a man is born to go a lovin'
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes

I'm moody all the morning
Mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much hard to fight
Black coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby
To maybe come around

My nerves have gone to pieces
My hair is turning gray
All i do is drink black coffee
Since my man's gone away

Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny
Makes a bee think of honey just as i think of you

Imagination is crazy, your whole perspective gets hazy
Starts you asking a daisy "what to do, what to do?"

Have you ever felt a gentle touch and then a kiss
And then and then, find it's only your imagination again?
Oh, well

Imagination is silly, you go around willy-nilly
For example i go around wanting you
And yet i can't imagine that you want me, too

<instrumental 0:32 to end>

Your lips were like a red and ruby chalice, warmer than the summer night
The clouds were like an alabaster palace rising to a snowy height.
Each star it's own aurora borealis, suddenly you held me tight,
I could see the midnight sun.

I can't explain the silver rain that found me--or was that a moonlight veil?
The music of the universe around me, or was that a nightingale?
And then your arms miraculously found me,suddenly the sky turned pale,
I could see the midnight sun.

Was there such a night, it's a thrill i still don't quite believe,
But after you were gone, there was still some stardust on my sleeve.

The flame of it may dwindle to an ember, and the stars forget to shine,
And we may see the meadow in december, icy white and crystalline.
But oh my darling always i'll remember when your lips were close to mine,
And we saw the midnight sun.

I'm so unhappy
What'll i do?
I long for somebody who
Will sympathize with me
I'm growing so tired of living alone
I lie awake all night and cry
Nobody loves me
That's why

All by myself in the morning
All by myself in the night

I sit alone with a table and a chair
So unhappy there
Playing solitaire

All by myself i get lonely
Watching the clock on the shelf

I'd love to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder
I hate to grow older
All by myself

When they begin the beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender,
It brings back a night of tropical splendor,
It brings back a memory ever green.
I'm with you once more under the stars,
And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
And even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the beguine.
To live it again is past all endeavor,
Except when that tune clutches my heart,
And there we are, swearing to love forever,
And promising never, never to part.
What moments divine, what rapture serene,
Till clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted,
And now when i hear people curse the chance that was wasted,
I know but too well what they mean;
So don't let them begin the beguine
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember;
Let it sleep like the dead desire i only remember
When they begin the beguine.
Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play
Till the stars that were there before return above you,
Till you whisper to me once more,
Darling, i love you!
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in,
When they begin the beguine

But i'm bidin' my time;
'cause that's the kinda guy i'm
While other folks grow dizzy
I keep busy
Bidin' my time.

Next year, next year,
Somethin's bound to happen;
This year, this year,
I'll just keep on nappin'

And bidin' my time
'cause that's the kinda guy i'm.
There's no regrettin'
When i'm settin'
Bidin' my time.

They're writing songs of love - but not for me
A lucky star's above - but not for me
With love to lead the way i've found more clouds of gray
Than any russian play - could guarantee

I was a fool to fall - and get that way
Hi ho alas and also lackaday
Although i can't dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he's not for me

(bridge)

I was a fool to fall - and get that way
Hi ho alas and also lackaday
Although i can't dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he's not for me

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
Better than ever now.

Mister shylock was stingy
I was miserly too.
I was more selfish
And crabby than a shellfish.
Oh, dear, it's queer
What love can do!
I'd give all my possessions
For you
I've got five dollars
I'm in good conditions
And i've got ambition
That belongs to you.
Six shirts and collars
Debts beyond endurance
On my life insurance
That belongs to you!
I've got a heart
That must be spurtin'!
Just be certain
I'll be true
Take my five dollars!
Take my shirt and collars!
Take my heart and hollers!
"ev'rything i've got belongs to you!"
I've got five dollars
Eighty-five relations
Two lace combinations
They belongs to you!
Two coats with collars
Ma and grandma wore'em
All the moths adore 'em
They belongs to you!
I've got two lips
That care for mating
Therefore waiting
Will not do!
Take my five dollars!
Take my shirt and collars!
Take my heart and hollers!
"ev'rything i've got belongs to you!"

Delilah was a floozy
She never gave a damn
Delilah wasn't choosy
Till she fell for a swell buckaroo
Whose name was sam

Delilah got in action
Delilah did her "kootch"
She gave him satisfaction
And he fell 'neath her spell
With the aid of love and "hootch"

But one day, so they tell us
His true wife, he did crave
Delilah, she got jealous
And she tracked him, and hacked him
And dug for sam a grave

It's always that way with passion
So cowboy, learn to behave
Or else, you're liable to cash in
With no tombstone on your grave

Delilah, oh delilah
She's no babe in the wood
Run cowboy, run a mile-ah
If you love that kind of woman
She'll do you no good

Near barcelona, the peasant crooned
The old traditional spanish tunes
The neapolitan street song sighs
You think of italian skys

Each nation has a creative vein
Originating a native strain
With folk songs plaintive and others gay
In their own peculiar way

American folk songs, i feel
Have a much stronger appeal

The real american folksong is a rag
A mental jag
A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a "joke song" but now
They've changed their tune, and they like it, somehow

For it's innoculated with a syncopated sort of meter, sweeter
Than a classic strain, boy you can't remain, still or quiet, for it's a riot

The real american folksong
Is like a fountain of youth
You taste, and it elates you, and then, invigorates you
The real american folksong, the masses coaxed on, is a rag

(instrumental break)

The real american folksong is a rag
A mental jag
A rhythmic tonic for the chronic blues

The critics called it a "joke song" but now
They've changed their tune, and they like it, somehow

For it's innoculated with a syncopated sort of meter, sweeter
Than a classic strain, boy you can't remain, still or quiet, for it's a riot

The real american folksong
Is like a fountain of youth
You taste, and it elates you, and then, invigorates you
The real american folksong, is a rag

You're just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It's all too wonderful
I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean they just aren't swell enough

You're much too much, and just too very very
To ever be, in webster's dictionary
And so, i'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words

<instrumental interlude>

You're much too much, and just too very very
To ever be, in webster's dictionary
And so, i'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words

Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain;
So darn persistent,
The day isn't distant
When it'll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
Without any warning,
And hangs around me all day.
I'll have to sneak up to it
Someday, and speak up to it.
I hope it listens when i say:

Refrain:
Fascinating rhythm,
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver.

When a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
Why i'm always shaking
Just like a flivver.

Each morning i get up with the sun -
Start a-hopping,
Never stopping -
To find at night no work has been done.

I know that
Once it didn't matter -
But now you're doing wrong;
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy.

Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off -
And make it snappy!

Oh, how i long to be the man i used to be!
Fascinating rhythm,
On won't you stop picking on me?

Never treats me sweet and gentle
The way he should
'cause i got it bad, and that ain't good

My poor heart is sentimental
Not made of wood
I got it bad, and that ain't good

But when the weekend's over
And monday rolls around
My man and me,
We pray some,
We gin some
And sin some

He don't love me
Like i love him
Nobody could
I got it bad, and that ain't good

Now folks with good intentions
Tell me to save my tears
I'm glad i'm mad about him
I can't live without him

Lord above me,
Make him love me
The way he should

Like a lonesome weeping willow
Lost in the wood
The way i hug my pillow
No woman should
Because i got it bad, and that ain't good

I never traveled further north than old van courtland park
And never further south than the aquarium
I've seen the charm of jersey city, but first let me remark
I saw it from the empire state solarium

But we've been putting nickels in the postal savings bank
And when those nickels pile up, we can toddle off in swank
And i don't mean an ordinary cook's tour
I mean a cabin de-luxe tour

Someday we'll go places
New lands and new faces
The day we quit punching the clock
The future looks pleasant,
But at present
Let's take a walk around the block.

You're just the companion
I want at grand canyon
For throwing old blades down the rock
The money we have`ll go for travel
Meantime, let's walk around the block.

Gangway, we'll begin
When our, ship comes in
I'll sit on your lap
All over the map

To london in may time
To venice in play time
To paris in time for a frock
To boston in bean time
Darling, meantime
Let's take a walk around the block.

(bridge)

In winter at christmas,
We'll visit the isthmus
And see how they lock up a lock
And then in caracas, on a jackass,
We'll take a ride around the block.

We'll keep to our promise,
To visit st. thomas
And then at jamaica we'll dock
The prospect is thrilling,
Still i am willing,
Just now to walk around the block.

Onward, to cathay
Then to mandalay
Boom on to bangkok
P'r'aps vladivostok

We'll send the folks cables
Accumulate labels
Buy souvenirs till we're in hock
But since we are flat in old manhattan
Let's take a walk around the block.

Once i was a sentimental thing,
Threw my heart away each spring;
Now a spring romance hasn't got a chance
Promised my first dance to winter;
All i've got to show's a splinter for my little fling!

Spring this year has got me feeling like a horse that never left the post;
I lie in my room staring up at the ceiling,
Spring can really hang you up the most!

Morning's kiss wakes tres and flowers,
And to them i'd like to drink a toast;
I walk in the park just to kill lonely hours,
Spring can really hang you up the most.

All afternoon those birds twitter twit,
I know the tune, "this is love, this is it!"
Heard it before and i know the score,
And i've decided that spring is a bore!

Love seemed sure around the new year,
Now it's april, love is just a ghost;
Spring arrived on time, only what became of you, dear?
Spring can really hang you up the most!
Spring can really hang you up the most!

Spring is here, there's no mistaking
Robins building nests from coast to coast;
My heart tries to sing so they won't hear it breaking,
Spring can really hang you up the most!

College boys are writing sonnets,
In the "tender passion" they're engrossed;
But i'm on the shelf with last years easter bonnets,
Spring can really hang you up the most!

Love came my way, i hope it would last;
We had our day, now that's all in the past!
Spring came along a season of son,
Full of sweet promise but womething went wrong!

Doctors once prescribed a tonic,
"sulphur and moloasses" was the dose;
Didn't help a bit, my condition must be chronic,
Spring can really hang you up the most!

All alone, the party's over,
Old man winter was a gracious host;
But when you keep praying for snow to hide the clover
Spring can really hang you up the most!