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I'm in the mood for love simply because you're near me
Funny but when you're near me, i'm in the mood for love.
Heaven was in your eyes, bright as the stars we're under,
Or is it any wonder, i'm in the mood for love.
Why stop to think of whether this little dream might fade,
We'll put our hearts together - now we are one, i'm not afraid.
If there's a cloud above, if it should rain, we'll let it.
But for tonight forget it, i'm in the mood for love.

I reach for you like i'd reach for a star,
Worshipping you from afar, living with my silent love;
I'm like a flame dying out in the rain,
Only the ashes remain, smouldering like my silent love;
How i long to tell all the things i have planned,
Still it's wrong to tell, you would not understand,
You'll go along never dreaming i care,
Loving somebody somewhere, leaving me my silent love.

Writer(s): creamer/layton


After you've gone - and left me crying
After you've gone - there's no denying
You'll feel blue - you're gonna be sad
You've missed the dearest pal that (slickest partner) you ever had

There'll come a time - don't you forget it
(yeah) there'll come a time - when you're gonna regret it
Some day when you get lonely
Your heart will break like mine - (and) you'll want me only

After you've gone (split) - after you've gone away (flown the coop)

After we paid - our dues together
You should have stayed - through all that nasty weather
Someday while you're feeling badly
You'll need the only one that loves you so madly

But i'll be gone - yes i'll be gone - to stay
Yeah after i've gone - after i've gone away

Writer(s): rose/eliscu/youmans


Whether you are here or yonder
Whether you are false or true
Whether you remain or wander
I am growing fonder of you

Even though your friends forsake you
Even though you don't succeed
Wouldn't i be glad to take you
Give you the break you need

More than you know, more than you know
Girl of my heart, i love you so
Lately i find, you're on my mind
More than you know

Whether you're right, whether you're wrong
Girl of my heart, i'll string along
I need you so
Much more than you'll ever know

Loving you the way that i do
There's nothing i can do about it
Loving may be all you can give
But baby i can't live without it

Oh how i'd cry, oh how i'd cry
If you got tired, and said good-bye
More than i'd show
More than you'd ever know

(note: frank never sang the intro, only the chorus, after a full musical intro by tommy dorsey's band)

In the region where the roses always bloom,
Breathing out upon the air their sweet perfume,
Lives a dusky maid i long to call my own,
For, i know my love for her will never die;
When the sun am sinking in dat golden west,
Little robin red breast gone to seek their nests,
And i sneak down to dat place i love the best,
Ever'y evening there along i sigh.

Chorus: ida! sweet as apple cider,
Sweeter than all i know,
Come out! in the silv'ry moonlight,
Of love we'll whisper, so soft and low!
Seems as tho' can't live without you,
Listen, please, honey do!
Ida! i idolize yer
I love you, ida, 'deed i do.

Writer(s): harburg/duke


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

A cigarette that bears 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 stumbling 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 make 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

The smile of turner 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

The very thought of you and i forget to do
The ordinary things that everyone ought to do.
I'm living in a kind of daydream, i'm happy as a king,
Foolish though it may seem, to me that's everything.
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you,
You'll never know how slow the moments go till i'm near to you.
I see you face in every flower, your eyes in stars above,
It's just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love.

I've got my eyes on you, so best beware where you roam.
I've got my eyes on you, so don't stray too far from home.
Incidentally, i've set my spies on you,
I'm checking all you do, from a to zee.
So, darling, just be wise, keep your eyes on me.

You came to me from out of nowhere, you took my heart and found it free,
Wonderful dreams, wonderful schemes from nowhere,
Make every hour as sweet as a flower to me.
If you should go back to your nowhere. leaving me with just a memory,
I'll always wait for your return out of nowhere,
Hoping you bring your love to me.

I'll see you in my dreams, hold you in my dreams,
Someone took you out of my heart and i feel the touch of your hand,
Lips that once were mine, tender eyes that shine,
They will light my way tonight, i'll see you in my dreams.

Shake down the stars, pull down the clouds,
Turn off the moon, do it soon,
I can't enjoy the night without you,
Shake down the stars.
Dry up the streams, stop all my dreams,
Cut off the breeze, do it please,
I never thought i'd cry about you,
Shake down the stars.
I gave you my arms, my lips, my heart,
My love, my life, my all,
But the best that i had to offer you
I found was all too small.
Crush every rose, hush every pray'r,
Break every vow, do it now,
I know i cannot live without you,
Shake down the stars.

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