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

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

Johnny could only sing one note
And the note he sings was this
Ah!
Poor johnny one-note
Sang out with "gusto"
And just overlorded the place
Poor johnny one-note
Yelled willy nilly
Until he was bleu in the face
For holding one note was his ace
Couldn't hear the brass
Couldn't hear the drum
He was in a class
By himself, by gum!
Poor johnny one-note
Got in aida
Indeed a great chance to be brave
He took his one note
Howled like the north wind
Brought forth wind that made critics rave,
While verdi turned round in his grave!
Couldn't hear the flute
Or the big trombone
Ev'ry one was mute
Johnny stood alone.
Cats and dogs stopped yapping
Lions in the zoo
All were jealous of johnny's big trill
Thunder claps stopped clapping,
Traffic ceased its roar,
And they tell us niag'ra stood still.
He stopped the train whistles,
Boat whistles,
Steam whistles,
Cop whistles,
All whistles bowed to his skill
Sing johnny one-note,
Sing out with "gusto" and
Just overwhelm all the crowd
Ah!
So sing johnny one-note, out loud!!
Sing johnny one-note
Sing johnny one-note out loud!

Get in touch with that sundown fellow
As he tiptoes across the sand
He's got a million kinds of stardust
Pick your fav'rite brand, and

Dream, when you're feeling blue
Dream, that's the thing to do
Just watch the smoke rings rise in the air
You'll find your share of memories there

So dream when the day is through
Dream, and they might come true
Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream

<instrumental>

Dream when the day is through
Dream, and they might come true
Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream
Dream
So dream, dream, dream

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

In spain, the best upper sets do it

Lithuanians and letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

The dutch in old amsterdam do it
Not to mention the fins
Folks in siam do it - think of siamese twins

Some argentines, without means, do it
People say in boston even beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Cold cape cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish, do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Electric eels i might add do it
Though it shocks em i know
Why ask if shad do it - waiter bring me
"shad roe"

In shallow shoals english soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love


Transcribed (from the stated recording) by todd peach <todd@thepeaches.com>
Other verses i've seen in print follow:

In old japan, all the japs do it
Up in lapland little laps do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it
Some courageous kangaroos do it
Let's do it, let's
Fall in love

I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it
Even eagles as they fly do it
Let's do it, let's fall
In love

Electric eels i might add do it
Though it shocks em i know
Why ask if shad do it - garcon de
"shad roe"

The world admits bears in pits do it
Even pekingeses at the ritz do it
Let's do it, let's
Fall in love

The royal set sans regret did it
And they considered it fun
Marie antoinette did it -
With or without napoleon

You're clear out of this world
When i'm looking at you
I hear out of this world
The music that no mortal ever knew

You're right out of a book
The fairy tale i read when i was five
No armored knight out of a book
Was more enchanted by a loralei
Then i

After waiting so long
For the right time
After reaching so long for a star
All at once from long and lonely night time
And despite time, here you are

I cry, "out of this world"
If you said we were through
So let me fly out of this world
And spend the next eternity or two
With you

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 used to visit all the very gay places
Those come-what-may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails

The girls i knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingue traces
That used to be there
You could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clock tales

Then you came along with your siren song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for awhile that your poignant smile
Was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah yes, i was wrong
Again, i was wrong

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so sure
Now life is awful again
A trough full of hearts could only be a bore

A week in paris could ease the bite of it
All i care is to smile in spite of it

I'll forget you, i will
While yet you are still
Burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
So i'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there i'll be, while i rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely too

Laura is the face in the misty lights
Footsteps that you hear down the hall
The laugh that floats on a summer night
That you can never quite recall

And you see laura on the train that is passing through
Those eyes how familiar they seem
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was laura but she's only a dream

<instrumental interlude>

And you see laura on the train that is passing through
Those eyes how familiar they seem
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was laura but she's only a dream

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!

Frosty the snowman

Was a jolly happy soul

With a corncob pipe and a button nose

And two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the snowman

Is a fairytale they say

He was made of snow

But the children know

How he came to life one day
There must have been some magic

In that old silk hat they found

For when they placed it on his head

He began to dance around
Frosty the snowman

Was alive as he could be

And the children say

He could laugh and play

Just the same as you and me
Frosty the snowman

Knew the sun was hot that day

So he said let's run

And we'll have some fun

Now before i melt away
Down to the village

With a broomstick in his hand

Running here and there all around the square

Saying catch me if you can
He led them down the streets of town

Right to the traffic cop

And he only paused a moment when

He heard him holler stop
Frosty the snowman

Had to hurry on his way

But he waved goodbye

Saying don't you cry

I'll be back again some day
Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Look at frosty go

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Over the hills of snow

First you say you do
And then you don't
And then you say you will
And then you won't
You're undecided now
So what are you gonna do?
Now you want to play
And then it's no
And when you say you'll stay
That's when you go
You're undecided now
So what are you gonna do?
I've been sitting on a fence
And it doesn't make much sense
'cause you keep me in suspense
And you know it
Then you promise to return
When you don't
I really burn
Well, i guess i'll never learn
And i show it
If you've got a heart
And if you're kind
Then don't keep us apart
Make up your mind
You're undecided now
So what are you gonna do?

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

You're deep just like a chasm
You've no, enthusiasm
You're tired and uninsipired.
You're blase.

Your day is one of leisure
In which you search for pleasure.
You're bored when you're adored.
You're blase.

While reaching for the moon,
And the stars up in the sky,
The simple things of normal life
Are slowly passing by.

You sleep, the sun is shining;
You wake, its time for dining.
There's nothing new for you to do
You're blase.

Instrumental interlude

While reaching for the moon,
And the stars up in the sky,
The simple things of normal life
Are slowly passing by.

You sleep, the sun is shining;
You wake, its time for dining.
There's nothing new for you to do
You're blase.
Blase.

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

We're having a heat wave,
A tropical heat wave,
The temperature's rising,
It isn't surprising,
She certainly can can-can.

She started a heat wave
By letting her seat wave
In such a way that
The customers say that
She certainly can can-can.

Gee, her anatomy
Makes the mercury
Jump to ninety-three.

We're having a heat wave,
A tropical heat wave,
The way that she moves
That thermometer proves
That she certainly can can-can.

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.

I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
Just like the ones i used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
Just like the ones i used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
With every christmas card i write
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
Just like the ones i used to know
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
With every christmas card i write
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your christmases be white

May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your christmases be white

And may all your christmases be white (all your christmases be white)
And may all your christmases be white (all your christmases be white)
And may all your christmases be
(all your christmases be white)
(all your christmases be white)

Wildcat kelley, lookin' mighty pale,
Was standin' by the sherrif's side
And when the sherrif said "i'm sendin you to jail,
Wildcat raised his head and cried

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that i love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but i ask you please,
Don't fence me in.

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies.
On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till i see the mountains rise.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon till i lose my senses
I can't look at hobbles and i can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.


Wildcat kelley, back again in town,
Was standin by his sweethearts side,
And when his sweetheart said "come on let's settle down,
Wildcat raised his head and cried


Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies,
Don't fence me in.
Let me ride through the wide open country that i love,
Don't fence me in.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but i ask you please,
Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till i see the mountains rise.


I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon till i lose my senses
I can't look at hobbles and i can't stand fences
Don't..... fence me in.
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Transcription unknown; key correction by john mair.

Edited by "cool hand luke"

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

Daydream, why do you haunt me so
Deep in a rosy glow
The face of my love you show

Daydream, i walk along on air
Building a castle there
For me and my love to share

Don't know the time, lordy
I'm in a daze
Sun in the sky, while i moon around, feeling, hazy

Daydream, don't break my reverie
Until i find that he,
Is daydreaming just like me

<sax solo>

Daydreams, why do you haunt me so
While i'm in this rosy glow
Bring back my love
Bring back my love
Bring back my love
To me

I've just finished writing an advertisement
Calling for a boy.
No half-hearted romeo or flirt is meant;
That's the kind i'd not employ.
Though anybody interested can apply,
He must know a thing or two to qualify.
For instance:

He must be able to dance.
He must make life a romance.
I said a boy wanted,
One who can smile;
Boy wanted, lovable style.

He must know how to say "yes!"
When i look at a new dress.
Oh, i'll be ready when the right one calls,
And i'll start vamping him until he falls;
Yes, if he proves to be the right little laddie,
I'll make him glad he answered my ad.

He must like musical shows,
And he must wear snappy clothes.
Yes, that is my story,
And to it i'll stick;
No glory
In having a hick.

He needn't be such a saint,
But, oh! he dassent say 'ain't.'
I don't care if his bankroll totals naught,
For we can live on love and food for thought.
If he's a scholar, when i see him i'll holler,
My lad, i'm glad you answered my ad!'

Transcribed by todd peach <todd@thepeaches.com>
########################
Original version:
Verse:
I've just finished writing an advertisement
Calling for a boy.
No half-hearted romeo or flirt is meant;
That's the kind i'd not employ.
Though anybody interested can apply,
He must know a thing to qualify.
For instance:

Refrain 1:
Teddy:
He must be able to dance.
He must make life a romance.
I said a boy wanted,
One who can smile;
Boy wanted,
Lovable style.
He must be tender and true,
And he must know how to woo.
I know we'll get acquainted mighty soon,
Out in a garden 'neath a harvest moon;
And if he proves to be the right little laddie,
I'll make him glad
He'll answer my ad!

Refrain 2:
Toots:
To be the boy of my choice,
He needn't own a rolls royce.
The kind of boy wanted*
Needn't have gold;
Boy wanted,
Mustn't be cold.
If he has oodles of charm,
I'll even life on a farm.
If he fits into my picture of a home,
I'll be so nice he'll never have to roam.**
Yes, if he proves to be the right little laddie,
I'll make him glad
He answered my ad.

Refrain 3:
Babe:
He must like musical shows,
And he must wear snappy clothes.
Yes, that is my story,
And to it i'll stick;
There's no glory
In having a hick.
He must know how to say "yes!"***
When i look at a new dress.
Oh, i'll be ready when the right one calls,
And i'll start vamping him until he falls;
And if he subsidises me, oh, sweet daddy!
I'll make him glad
He answered my ad!

Refrain 4:
Bunny:
The movies he must avoid,
He'll know his nietzsche and freud.
I said a boy wanted,
One who knows books;
Boy wanted
Needn't have looks.
He must be such a saint,
But, oh! he dassent say 'ain't.'

I don't care if his bankroll totals naught,
For we can live on love and food for thought.
If he's a scholar, when i see him i'll holler,
'my lad, i'm glad
You answered my ad!'

*alternative version of this line: 'the sort of boy wanted'
** alternative version of this line: 'i'll be so nice he'll never care
To roam'
*** alternative version of refrain 3, lines 7-8:
'and so his boots mustn't squeak;
And he must love like a sheik.'

Primrose version:
Verse:
I've just finished writing an advertisement
Calling for a boy.
No half-hearted romeo or flirt is meant;
That's the kind i won't employ.
Though anybody interested can apply,
He must know a thing to qualify.
For instance:

Refrain 1:
To have a ghost of a chance,
He must be able to dance.
The sort of boy wanted
Must have a smile
Boy wanted,
Lovable style.
He must be tender and true,
And if he knows what to do,
I think i'll learn to love him very soon;
I'll want him morning, night and afternoon.
So if you know of one who's wanting employment,
Just tell him that
I'm wanting a boy!

Refrain 2:
To be the boy of my choice,
He's got to own a rolls royce.
He must be quite reckless
Buying me things:
Pearl necklace,
Diamond rings.
He must be ready to pay
A dozen bills ev'ry day.
I'll simply smothing him with tender care
If i could find a multimillionaire.
So if you could seen one dining at the savoy-oh!
Just tell him
I'm wanting a boy!

Refrain 3:
I won't have anyone small,
He must be handsome and tall.
I said a boy wanted,
Beautifully dressed;
Boy wanted,
Trousers well pressed.
He must have wonderful eyes;
He must wear wonderful ties.
I want a boy who'll always look as though
He's only just come out of savile row.
So if some paris wants a helen of troy-oh!
Just tell him that
I'm wanting a boy.

Maybe he's not much, just another man
Doing what he can
But what does she care
When a woman loves a man
She'll just string along
All through thick and thin
Till his ship comes in
It's always that way
When a woman love a man
She'll be the first one to praise him
When he's goin' strong
The last one to blame him
When everything's wrong
It's such a one-sided game that they play
But women are funny that way
Tell her she's a fool
She'll say yes, i know
But i love him so
And that's how it goes
When a woman loves a man
Tell her she's a fool
She'll say yes, i know
But i love him so
And that's how if goes

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

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

Drifting, dreaming
In an azure mood
Stardust gleaming
Through my solitude

Here in my seclusion
You're a blue illusion
While i'm in this azure interlude
I'm not wanted
I'm so all alone

Always haunted
By the dreams i own
But though i'm tormented
I must be contented

Drifting, dreaming
In an azure mood

Drifting, dreaming
In an azure mood

Drifting, dreaming
In an azure mood

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

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!

Look at me, i'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree;
And i feel like i'm clingin' to a cloud,
I can' t understand
I get misty, just holding your hand.
Walk my way,
And a thousand violins begin to play,
Or it might be the sound of your hello,
That music i hear,
I get misty, the moment you're near.
Can't you see that you're leading me on?
And it's just what i want you to do,
Don't you notice how hopelessly i'm lost
That's why i'm following you.
On my own,
When i wander through this wonderland alone,
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove
I'm too misty, and too much in love.
Too misty,
And too much
In love.....

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

Oh listen, sister,
I love my mister man,
And i can't tell yo' why,
Dere ain't no reason
Why i should love dat man.
It must be sumpin' dat de angels done plan.

Refrain:

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,
I got to love one man till i die.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow,
Tell me i'm crazy (maybe i know).
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
When he goes away
Dat's a rainy day,
But when he comes back dat day is fine,
De sun will shine!
He kin come home as late as kin be,
Home widout him ain't no home to me.
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
~~~
My man is shif'less
An' good for nuthin' too
(he's mah man jes' de same)

He's never round here
When dere is work to do.
He's never round here when dere's workin' to do.
De chimbley's smokin',
De roof is leakin' in,
But he don't seem to care.
He kin be happy
Wid jes' a sip of gin.
Ah even love him when his kisses got gin!

Repeat refrain

*note: the source for these exact lyrics come directly from my "lyrics by
Oscar hammerstein ii" book.

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

My thoughts go back to a heavenly dance
A moment of bliss we spent
Our hearts were filled with a song of romance
As into the night we went
And sang to our hearts' content

The song is ended
But the melody lingers on
You and the song are gone
But the melody lingers on

The night was splendid
And the melody seemed to say
"summer will pass away
Take your happiness while you may"

There 'neath the light of the moon
We sang a love song that ended too soon

The moon descended
And i found with the break of dawn
You and the song had gone
But the melody lingers on

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

[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

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

A cigarette that bares a lipstick's traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you.
A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumblin'words that told you what my heart meant
A fairground's painted swings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.
You came,
You saw,
You conquered me
When you did that to me
I knew somehow this had to be
The winds of march that made my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings but who's to answer
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
First daffodils
And long excited cables
And candle lights
A little corner table
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you
The park at evening
When the bell has sounded
The pier in france
With all the gulls around it
The beauty that is spring
These foolish things
Remind me of you
How strange,
How sweet,
To find you still,
These things are dear to me
They seem to bring you near to me
The sigh of midnight trains
At empty stations
Silk stockings thrown aside
Dance invitations
Oh how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
Gardenia perfume
Lingering on a pillow
Wild strawberries
Only seven francs a kilo
And still my heart has wings,
These foolish things,
Remind me of you
The smile of garbo
And the scent of roses
The waiters whistling
As the last bar closes
The song that crosby sings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
How strange
How sweet
To find you still
These things are dear to me
They seem to bring you near to me
The scent of smoldering leaves
The wail of steamers
Two lovers on the street
Who walk like dreamers
Oh how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

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!

I know too well that i'm just wasting precious time
In thinking such a thing could be
That you could ever care for me
I'm sure you hate to hear
That i adore you, dear
But grant me
Just the same
I'm not entirely to blame
For love
You'd be so easy to love
So easy to idolize
All others above
So worth the yearning for
So swell to keep every homefire burning for
We'd be so grand at the game
So carefree together
That it does seem a shame
That you can't see
Your future with me
'cause you'd be oh, so easy to love

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!

Our love
Is a dream, but in my reverie
I can see that this love was meant for me
Only a poor fool
Never schooled in the whirlpool
Of romance could be so cruel
As you are to me
My dreams are as worthless as tin to me
Without you life will never begin to be
So love me
As i love you in my reverie
Make my dream a reality
Let's dispense with formality
Come to me in my reverie

The evening breeze caressed the trees, tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and i came wandering by
And lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide
And closed me inside
You took my lips you took my love so tenderly

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?

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).

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.

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

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

Away with the music of broadway
Be off with your irving berlin
Oh i give no quarter to kern or cole porter
And gershwin keeps pounding on tin

How can i be civil when hearing this drivel
It's only for nightclubbin' souses
Oh give me the free 'n' easy waltz that is vienneasy and
Go tell the band if they want a hand
The waltz must be strauss's

Ya, ya ya, give me oom-pa-pah
When i want a melody
Lilting through the house
Then i want a melody
By strauss
It laughs, it sings, the world is in rhyme
Swinging to three-quarter time

Let the danube flow along
And the fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By strauss

By jove, by jing, by strauss is the thing
So i say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah, by strauss!

(bridge)

Let the danube flow along
And the fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By strauss

By jove, by jing, by strauss is the thing
So i say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah,
By strauss!"

The world is lyrical
Because a miracle
Has brought my lover to me
Though she's some other place, her face i see
At night i creep in bed
And never sleep in bed
But look above in the air
And to my greatest joy, my love is there
She dances overhead
On the ceiling near my bed
In my sight
All through the night
I try to hide in vain
Underneath my counterpane
But there's my love
Up there above
I whisper, "go away, my lover
It's not fair"
But i'm so grateful to discover
That she's still there
I love my ceiling more
Since it is a dancing floor
Just for my love

It's over
All over
And soon somebody else will make a fuss about you
But how about me?

It's over
All over
And soon somebody else will tell his friends about you
But how about me?

You'll find somebody new
But what am i to do?
I'll still remember you
When you have forgotten

And maybe
A baby
Will climb upon your knee and put its arms about you
But how about me?

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.

We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
I have a feeling, it's a feeling i'm concealing - i don't know why
It's just a mental, incidental, sentimental - alibi
But i adore you, so strong for you
Why go on stalling, i am falling, love is calling - why be shy
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love
Our hearts are made of it, let's take a chance
Why be afraid of it
Let's close our eyes
And make our own paradise
Little we know of it, still we can try
To make a go of it
We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love
Now is the time for it, while we are young
Let's fall in love

You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While i sit and sigh, "go 'long blues".

Always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
In the evenin' when lights are low,
I'm so lonesome i could cry.

'cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's
Bluer than blue can be.
When i get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.

Perdido,
I look for my heart
It's perdido
I lost it way down in torito
The day the fiesta started

Bolero,
I sway that they play the bolero
I kissed me the listing sombrero
And that's when my heart departed

High, was the sun when i held him close
Low, was the moon when we said, "adios"

Perdido
My heart ever since is perdido
I know i must go to torito
To find what i lost perdido

(scat)

High, was the sun when i held him close
Low, was the moon when we said, "adios"

Perdido
Goodnight perdido
I lost perdido

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.

Gone with the wind
Just like a leaf that has flown away
Gone with the wind
My romance has blown away
Yesterday's kisses are still on my lips,
I've had a lifetime of heaven at my fingertips.

But now all-all is gone.
Gone is the rapture that fills my heart
Gone with the wind
My romance has flown apart

Just like a flame
Love burned brightly, then became
An empty smoke ring that has gone,
Gone with the wind.

Gone, gone, gone with the wind
Just like a leaf that has flown away
Gone with the wind
My romance has flown away
Yesterday's kisses are still, still on my lips,
I've had a lifetime of heaven at my fingertips.

But now all-all is gone.
Gone is the rapture that fills my heart
Gone with the wind
My romance has flown apart

Just like a flame
Love burned brightly, then became
An empty smoke ring that has
Gone with the wind.

{scat}
Gone with the wind

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.

Isn't it romantic?
Music in the night, a dream that can be heard.
Isn't it romantic?
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word.
I hear the breezes playing in the trees above
While all the world is saying you were meant for love.
Isn't it romantic
Merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn't it romantic?
Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss.
Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
Do you mean that i will fall in love perchance?
Isn't it romance?

(instrumental)

Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
Do you mean that i will fall in love perchance?
Isn't it romantic?
Isn't it romance?

My man's gone now
Ain't no use a listenin'
For his tired footsteps
Climbin' up the stairs
Old man sorrow's
Come to keep me company
Whisperin' beside me
When i say my prayers
When i say my prayers
He come aroud
He come up, he come around
Ain't that i mind workin'
Workin' means travelers
Journeyin' togheter
To the promised land
But old man sorrow
Mountin' all the way with me
Tell' me that i'm old now
Since i lose my man
Since i lose my man
Since i lose my man

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you
Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It's no matter darling where you are
I think of you
Day and night, night and day, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever i go
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Day and night, night and day
Under the hide of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day

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

The one i love belongs to somebody else
She means her tender songs for somebody else
And even when i have my arms around her
I know her thoughts are strong for somebody else
The hands i held belong to somebody else
I'll bet they're not so cold to somebody else
It's tough to be alone on the shelf
It's worse to fall in love by yourself
The one i love belongs to somebody else
The one i love belongs to somebody else

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?

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'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

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, you irreplaceable you

Just one look at you
My heart grew tipsy in me
You and you alone
Bring out the gypsy in me

I love all the many charms about you
Above all, i want my arms about you

Don't be a naughty baby
Come to mama, come to mama do
My sweet embraceable you

{instrumental interlude}

I love all the many charms about you
Above all, i want my arms about you

Don't be a naughty baby
Come to mama, come to mama do
My sweet embraceable you

You came to me from out of nowhere,
You took my heart and found it free.
Wonderful dreams, wonderful schemes from nowhere
Made every hour sweet as a flower for me.

If you should go back to your nowhere,
Leaving me with a memory,
I'll always wait for your return out of nowhere,
Hoping you'll bring your love to me.

Porgy:
Bess, you is my woman now,
You is, you is!
An' you mus' laugh an' sing an' dance
For two instead of one.
Want no wrinkle on yo' brow,
Nohow,
Because de sorrow of de past is all done done
Oh, bess, my bess!

Bess:
Porgy, i's yo' woman now,
I is, i is!
An' i ain't never goin' nowhere 'less you shares de fun.
Dere's no wrinkle on my brow,
Nohow,
But i ain't goin'! you hear me sayin',
If you ain' goin', wid you i'm stayin'!

Porgy, i's yo' woman now!
I's yours forever -
Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
Summer time an' winter time.

Porgy:
Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
Summer time an' winter time.
Bess, you got yo' man.

Bess, you is my woman now and forever.*
Dis life is jes' begun,
Bess, we two is one
Now an' forever.
Oh, bess, don't min' dose women.
You got yo' porgy.
I knows you means it,
I seen it in yo' eyes, bess.
We'll go swingin'
Through de years a-singin'.

Bess:
Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
Summer time an' winter time.

Porgy:
Mornin' time an' evenin' time an'
Summer time an' winter time.

Bess:
Oh, my porgy, my man, porgy.

Porgy: [simultaneously] my bess, my bess.

Bess: from dis minute i'm tellin' you, i keep dis vow: porgy, i's yo'
Woman now.

Porgy: [simultaneously]
From dis minute i'm tellin' you, i keep dis vow:
Oh, my bessie, we's happy now. we is one now.

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?

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

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all of the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All i do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything i had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around,
Heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around
And i'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down
Blinding every hope i had
This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad

Love, love, love, love
This misery will be the end of me

(bridge)

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All i do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything i had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time

Bess
Oh... what you want wid bess?
She's gettin' ole now;
Take a fine young gal
For to satisfy crown.
Look at this chest
An' look at these arms you got.
You know how it always been with me,
These five years i been yo' woman,
You could kick me in the street,
Then when you wanted me back,
You could whistle, an' there i was
Back again, lickin' yo' hand.
There's plenty better lookin' gal than bess.

Can' you see, i'm with porgy,
Now and forever
I am his woman, he would die without me.
Oh, crown, won't you let me go to my man, to my man.
He is a cripple an' needs my love, all my love.
What you want wid bess? oh, let me go to my man. . .

Crown
What i wants wid other woman,
I gots a woman, yes,
An' dat is you, yes, dat is you, yes,
I need you now an' you're mine jus' as long as i want you.
No cripple goin' take my woman from me.
You got a man tonight an' that is crown, yes, crown, yes
Crown.
You're my woman, bess, i'm tellin' you, now i'm your man.

(pressing her very close)

Bess
What you want with bess?
(boat whistles)
Lemme go, crown dat boat, it's goin' wiout me!

Crown
You ain't goin' nowhere!

Bess
(weakening)
Take yo' hands off me, i say, yo' hands, yo' hands, yo hands.
(crown kisses her passionately)

Crown
I knows you' ain' change - wid you and me it always be the
Same. git in dat thicket.
(bess backs into woods; crown follows.)

I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
Till april in paris, chestnuts in blossom
Holiday tables under the trees
April in paris, this is a feeling
That no one can ever reprise
I never knew the charm of spring
I never met it face to face
I never new my heart could sing
I never missed a warm embrace
Till april in paris
Whom can i run to
What have you done to my heart

Get thee behind me, satan
I want to resist
But the moon is low and i can't say "no"
Get thee behind me

Get thee behind me, satan
I mustn't be kissed
But the moon is low and i may let go
Get thee behind me

Someone i'm mad about
Is waiting in the night for me
Someone that i mustn't see
Satan, get thee behind me

He promised to wait
But i won't appear and he may come here
Satan, he's at my gate
Get thee behind me
Stay where you are
It's too late

Days can be sunny, with never a sigh
Don't need what money can buy
Birds in the trees sing their day full of song
Why shouldn't we sing along?

I'm chipper all the day, happy with my lot
How do i get that way? look at what i've got

I got rhythm, i got music
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

----- scat -----

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him, 'round my door
I got startlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

I got rhythm, i got music
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got startlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

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

There are many many crazy things
That will keep me loving you
And with your permission
May i list a few

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
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 they can't take that away from me

We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
But 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 they can't take that away from me

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>

I laughed at sweethearts i met at schools
All indiscreet hearts seemed romantic fools
A house in iceland was my heart's domain
I saw your eyes, now castles rise in spain!
I took one look at you, that's all i meant to do
And then my heart stood still,
My feet could step and walk, my lips could move and talk
And yet my heart stood still
Though not a single word was spoken, i could tell you knew
That unfelt clasp of hands told me so well you knew
I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment when
My heart stood still
Through all my school days, i hated boys
Those april fool days brought me loveless joys
I read my plato, love, i thought a sin
But since your kiss, i'm reading missus glyn!

What made good queen bess
Such a great success?
What made wellington
Do what he did at waterloo?

What makes every englishman
A fighter through and through?
It isn't roast beef, or ale, or home, or mother
It's just a little thing they sing to one another

Stiff upper lip, stout fella
Carry on, old fluff
Chin up, keep muddling through

Stiff upper lip, stout fella
When the going's rough
Pip pip to old man trouble
And a toodly-oo too

Carry on through thick and thin
If you feel you're in the right
Does the fighting spirit win?
Quite, quite, quite, quite, quite

Stiff upper lip, stout fella
When you're in the stew
Sober or blotto, this is your motto
Keep muddling through

(instrumental bridge)

When a bounder starts to hiss
You must give him blow for blow
Make the blighter say, "what's this?
`ullo, `ullo, `ullo, `ullo, `ullo"

Stiff upper lip, stout fella
When you're in the stew
Sober or blotto, this is your motto
Keep muddling through

Keep muddling through
Keep muddling through
Keep muddling through

Some day, when i'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Yes, you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows
Tearin' my fear apart
And that laugh..wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely ... never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it ? 'cause i love you
Just the way you look tonight

<instrumental>

And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
It touches my foolish heart

Lovely ... don't you ever change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it ? 'cause i love you
A-just the way you look tonight


Mm, mm mm, mm,
Just the way you look tonight

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

Verse 1
Don't stamp your foot at me,
It's impolite
To stamp your foot at me
Is not quite right.
At man's ingratitude
A woman winks,
But such an attitude just stinks.
Refrain 1
I have eyes for you to give you dirty looks.
I have words that do not come from children's books
There's a trick with a knife i'm learning to do
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
I've a powerful anesthesia in my fist,
And the perfect wrist to give your neck atwist.
There are hammerlock holds,
I've mastered a few,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
Share for share, share alike,
You get struck each time i strike.
You for me- me for me-
I'll give you plenty of nothing.
I'm not yours for better but for worse,
And i've learned to give the well-known witches' curse.
I've a terrible tongue, a temper for two,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
Verse 2
Don't raise your voice at me,
That's very rude.
To raise your voice at me
Is rather crude.
It's wrong essentially when woman yells,
And confidentially, it smells.
Refrain 2
I'll converse with you on politics at length,
I'll protect you with my superhuman strength.
If you're ever attacked i'll scream and say , "boo!''
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
I will never stray from home, i'll just stay put,
'cause i've got a brand-new thing called athlete' s foot.
I'm a victim of colds, anemia, too,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
Off to bed we will creep,
Then we'll sleep and sleep and sleep
Till the birds start to peep.
I'll give you plenty of nothing.
I'll be yours forever and a day
If the first good breeze does not blow me away.
You're enough for one man, that's why i'll be true,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
Encore
You may have some things that i can't use at all.
When i look at you, your manly gifts are small.
I've a wonderful way of saying adieu,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
You won't know how good i am until you try
And you'll let my well of loneliness run dry.
I've a marvelous way of telling you no,
And ev'rything i've got belongs to you.
And ev'rything you want belongs to me!
And ev' rything you need belongs to me!
Reprise
Verse
Life has no shape or form
And no design.
It isn't life without
That fool of mine.
I used to gad about
With any chap
And now i'm sad about my sap.
Refrain
He's a living thing that isn't quite alive,
He has brains enough for any child of five.
Oh, he isn't too rich in vigor and vim,
But ev'rything i've got belongs to him.
He's a naughty brat that can't be left alone.
He has eyes for ev'ry skirt except my own.
Even under a tree, he grabs for the limb,
But ev'rything i've got belongs to him.
Something beats in his chest,
But it's just a pump at best.
I'm for him, he's for him.
He gives me plenty of nothing.
When i see that funny face, i know
Something scared his mother twenty years ago.
But i'll never let go, he'll never be free!
Till ev'rything he's got belongs to me!
Coda
And ev'rything i've got belongs to him!
And ev'rything i've got belongs to us!

Here in my arms it's adorable!
It's deplorable
That you were never there.

When little lips are so kissable
It's permissible
For me to ask my share.

Next to my heart it is ever so lonely.
I'm holding only air.

While here in my arms it's adorable!
It's deplorable
That you were never there.

Don't tell me about a night in june
Or a shady lane beneath the velvet moon
Don't tell me, 'cause i wanna talk about you.

Don't mention that waterfall
Or that shady nook where crickets softly call
Don't tell me, 'cause i wanna talk about you.

The moon and the stars, the objects on mars
Are things that we've talked of before
But your love for me was the question
Your answer throws back heaven's door, so

Tell me, your love will be sincere,
Then my darling, you needn't ever fear
I love you and i wanna talk about you.

The moon and the stars, the objects on mars
Are things that we've talked of before
But your love for me was the question
Your answer throws back heaven's door, so

Tell me, your love will be sincere,
Then my darling, you needn't ever fear
I love you and i wanna talk about you.

If you wanna do right by your appetite,
If you're fussy about your food,
Take a choo-choo today, head new england way,
And we'll put you in the happiest mood. with:
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
Makes your eyes light up,
Your tummy say "howdy."
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff.
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy makes the sun come out
When heavens are cloudy,
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy,
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff!
Mama! when you bake,
Mama! i don't want cake;
Mama! for my sake
Go to the oven and make some ever lovin' sh,
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
Makes your eyes light up,
Your tummy say "howdy,"
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff!

Can't run away from you, dear
I've tried so hard but i fear
You'll always follow me near and far
Just when i think that i'm set
Just when i've learned to forget
I close my eyes, dear, and there you are

You keep coming back like a song
A song that keeps saying, remember

The sweet used-to-be
That was once you and me
Keeps coming back like an old melody

The perfume of roses in may
Returns to my room in december

From out of the past where forgotten things belong
You keep coming back like a song