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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,

This is the end of a beautiful friendship
It ended a moment ago
This is the end of a beautiful friendship
I know
'Cause your eyes told me so

We've always been
Like sister and brother

A kiss goodnight is alright
But remember this
That a kiss goodnight leads to another kiss
A kiss goodnight with a hug real tight
Is nothing short of bliss
And a kiss goodnight leads to another kiss
It's an old custom for a boy and girl to embrace
In some secluded place

The moon is the same moon above you
Aglow with it’s 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

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

A tisket a tasket
A brown-and-yellow basket
I send a letter to my mommie
On the way I dropped it

I dropped it, I dropped it
Yes, on the way I dropped it
A little girlie picked it up

Come on and hear (2x), Alexander's Ragtime Band,
Come on and hear (2x), it's the best band in the land!
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before,
So natural that you want to go to war--
That's just the bestest band what am, Honey Lamb!
Come on along (2x), let me take you by the hand
Up to the man (2x), who's the leader of the band,
And if you want to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime

Sometimes when I'm down and alone
I feel just like a child with out a home
The love you give me keeps me hangin' on, honey
All I'll ever need is you

You're my first love, you're my last
You're my future, you're my past
Oh, loving you is all I ask, honey

All of me, why not take all of me?
Can't you see that I'm no good without you
Take my arms I want to lose them
Take my lips I'll never use them

Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
And I know that I am no good without you
You took apart that once was my heart

All of me, why not take all of me?
Baby, can't you see I'm no good without you?
Take my lips, I'll never use them
Take my arms, I want to lose them

Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
Tell me how can I go on, dear, without you?
You took the part that once was my heart

I love the looks of you
The lure of you
The sweet of you
The pure of you
The eyes, the arms, the mouth of you
The east, west, north, and the south of you
I'd love to gain complete control of you
And handle even the heart and soul of you

All or nothin' at all
Half a love never appealed to me
If your heart never would yield to me
Then I'd rather have nothin' at all

All or nothin' at all
If it's love, there is no in-between
Why begin then cry for somethin' that might have been

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long.
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
You are the angel glow that lights a star,
The dearest things I know are what you are.
Some day my happy arms will hold you,
And some day I'll know that moment divine,

Times have changed
And weve often rewound the clock
Since the puritans got a shock
When they landed on plymouth rock.
If today, any shock they should try to stem,
stead of landing on plymouth rock,
Plymouth rock would land on them.

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

The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold....
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands, I used to hold
Since you went away, the days grow long
And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song.
But I miss you most of all my darling,
When autumn leaves start to fall.

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
Every hour in the day you will hear me say

Because of rain, I fell in love with you
The raindrops seem to want to help me too
Because of rain, we stayed indoors and watched it pour
That's how I found the one that I adore

Because of rain, we stole a kiss or two
The cloudy day gave way to skies of blue
We must thank the misty, moisty windowpane

At any gambling casino
From monte carlo to reno
They tell you that a beginner
Comes out a winner

Beginner fishing for flounder
Will catch a 17 pounder
That’s what I always heard

Of all the boys I've known, and I've known some
Until I first met you, I was lonesome
And when you came in sight, dear, my heart grew light
And this old world seemed new to me

You're really swell, I have to admit you
Deserve expressions that really fit you
And so I've racked my brain, hoping to explain

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

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;

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 was blue, just as blue as I could be

Evry day was a cloudy day for me

Then good luck came a-knocking at my door

Skies were gray but theyre not gray anymore

My heart is sad and lonely!

For you I sigh, for you dear only.

Why haven't you seen it?

I'm all for you, Body and Soul.

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:

Brighten The Corner Where You Are

Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do,
Do not wait to shed your light afar;
To the many duties ever near you now be true,
Brighten the corner where you are.

Refrain:

Boss, dat bird mean trouble
Once de buzzard fold his wing an' light over yo' house,
All yo' happiness done dead
Buzzard keep on flyin' over, take along yo' shadow

Ain' nobody dead dis mornin'
Livin's jus' begun
Two is strong where one is feeble

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

Oh listen, sister,
I love my mister man,
And I can't tell yo' why,
There ain't no reason
Why I should love that man.
It must be something that the angels done plan.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,

Love was the thing that you wanted
That's why we answered loves call
Now that you've got what you wanted
You don't seem to want it at all

Careless
Now that you've got me loving you
You're careless

I don't like steaks or fancy cake
I'm cool to ice cream too
I have just one obsession
I really love to chew

Lollipop and chocolate drop
Have no effect on me
But when I have some chewin' gum

How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?
How'd ya like to spend the holiday away across the sea?
How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?
How'd ya like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?
How'd ya like to stay up late like the islanders do?
Wait for Santa to sail in with your presents in a canoe
If you ever spend Christmas on Christmas Island
You will never stray for everyday

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

Come on-a my house, my house; I'm-a gonna give you candy
Come on-a my house, my house; I'm-a gonna give you
Apple and a plum and an apricot or two, ah

Come on-a my house, my house come on
Come on-a my house, my house-a come on
Come on-a my house, my house, I'm-a gonna give you
Figs and dates and grapes and a cake, ah

Now you say you're lonely
You cry 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

[Chorus]
Do i want you
Oh my, do i?
Honey, 'deed i do
Do i need you?
Oh my, do i
Honey, 'deed i do

Love is like a never-ending melody
Always have compared it to a symphony
A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon
But our song of love is slightly out of tune

Once your kisses raised me to a fever pitch
Now the orchestration doesn't seem so rich
Seems to me you've changed the tune we used to sing

Smooth road, clear day
But why am I the only one travelin' this way?
How strange--the road to love should be so easy
Can't you see the detour ahead?

Wake up, slow down
Before you crash and break your heart, gullible clown
You fool, you're headed in the wrong direction

Do i love you do i?
Doesn't one and one make two?
Do i love you do i?
Does july need a sky of blue?
Would i miss you, would i, if you ever should go away?
If the sun should desert the day, what would life be?
Will i leave you, never?
Could the ocean leave the shore?

Dim the light, little man
And tonight, little man
On a ship of dreams you'll sail

Dreams are made for children
And a dream is a fairytale

You don't need a magic wand

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,

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,

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

1. Jingle Bells
2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
5. Sleigh Ride
6. The Christmas Song
7. Good Morning Blues
8. Let It Snow

Well everybody's
Everybody's singing the blues
I say everybody's
Everybody's singing the blues
Well I've got news for you,
I'm singing them too
'cause my man and I have parted
I hear he's found somebody new

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.

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,

Every time 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.

Каждый раз, когда мы прощаемся,
Я на мгновение погибаю...
Каждый раз, когда мы прощаемся,
Я задаюсь вопросом "почему"...
Почему всевышние Боги,
Кому известно все,
Так равнодушны ко мне?
Они позволяют тебе уйти...

I hear, tell, there's a stranger in the Jones household
(Yes, siree, yes, siree)
That's what I'm told
I hear, tell, there's a new arrival six days old
(Yes, siree, yes, siree)
Worth his weight in gold
Come right in
And meet the son

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.

"Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear
You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever

We're sitting out here on the runway
Waiting for the plane to leave
And the captain says, "There'll be a short delay
Bear with me, please"

They gave us the usual hassle
"You can't take those guitars on board"
But the boys in the band just smiled

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

[Jimmy]
Frankie, dear, your birthday gift reveals to me
That at heart you`re really not so bad.
If I add, why our funny face appeals to me.
Please dont` think I`ve suddenly gone mad.
You have all the qualities of Peter Pan;
I`d go far before I`d find a sweeter pan
And yet

I never met a guyl who makes me feel the way that you do
(It's alright)
Whenever I'm asked who makes my dreams real
I say that you do
(You're outta sight)
So fee fi fo fum

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our savior
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

Good morning blues, blues how do you do
Good morning blues, blues how do you do
Babe, I feel alright but I come to worry you

Baby, it's Christmas time and I want to see Santa Claus
Baby, it's Christmas time and I want to see Santa Claus
Don't show me my pretty baby, I'll break all of the laws

Good morning heartache
You old gloomy sight
Good morning heartache
Thought we said goodbye last night
I turned and tossed until it seems you heve gone
But here you are with the dawn
Wish I forget you, but youre here to stay
It seems I met you

Sing Hallelujah, Hallelujah!
And you'll shoo the blues away
Cares pursue ya, Hallelujah!
Gets you through the darkest day

Satan lies a-waitin'
And creatin' skies of gray
But Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

Let me tell you 'bout a boy I know
He is my baby and he lives next door
Every morning 'fore the sun comes up
He brings my coffee in my favorite cup

That's why I know, yes, I know
Hallelujah, I just love him so

Happy talk
keep talkin' happy talk

Talk about things you'd like to do.
You gotta have a dream
if you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?
Talk about a moon floatin' in the sky

In old Savannah
I said Savannah
The weather there is nice and warm
The climate`s of a southern brand

But here`s what I don`t understand
They`ve got a gal there
A pretty gal there

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be

Have yourself a merry little christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
Out of sight
Have yourself a merry little christmas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be
Miles away

He loves and she loves,
And they love
So why can't you love
And I love like too?
Birds love and bees love
And whispering trees love,
And that's what we both should do.

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

It`s the wonder of the world, It`s a rocket to the moon
It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow...

Here`s to my best romance, Here`s to my worst romance
Here`s to my first romance - ages ago
Here`s to the boys I've kissed, and to complete the list
Here`s to the boys who said "No!"

Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon
There is no moon above
When love is far away too
Till it comes true
That you love me as I love you

How insensitive I must have seemed,
when he told me that he loved me.
How unmoved and cold I must have seemed,
when he told me so sincerely.

“Why” – he must have asked, – “did I just turn
and stare in icy silence?”
What was I to say ? What can you say ?

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

Breeze, stop moaning those wit melodies
My man has left me so I can't face the music
Without singing the blues

Rain, your rhythm on my window pane
Drives me insane because I can't face the music
Without singing the blues

I've flown around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
The North Pole I have charted,
But I can't get started with you

Around the golf course I'm under par
And all the movies want me to star
I've got a house, a show place,

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

Once I was young --
Yesterday, perhaps --
Danced with Jim and Paul
And kissed some other chaps.

Once I was young,
But never was naive.
I thought I had a trick or two

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
Doo ah, doo ah, doo ah, doo ah, doo ah
Doo ah, doo ah, doo ah, doo ah

It don't mean a thing, all you gotta do is sing
Doo ah, doo ah, doo ah, doo ah, doo ah
Doo ah, doo ah, doo ah

I love you oh so madly
I need your love so badly
But I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you
I thought at last I found you
But other loves surround you
And I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you
If you'd surrender
Just for a tender

Days can be sunny,
With never a sigh ;
Don't need what money can buy.
Birds in the tree sing
Their dayful of song,
Why shouldn't we sing along ?

I'm chipper all the day,

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I`ll give you my heart
I love you and you alone were meant for me
Please give your loving heart to me
And say we`ll never part
I think of you every morning
Dream of you every night

I Shall Not Be Moved

Jesus is my Savior, I shall not be moved;
In His love and favor, I shall not be moved,
Just like a tree that's planted by the waters,
Lord, I shall not be moved.

Chorus

What do you get when you fall in love ?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble
Thats what you get for all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again

What do you get when you kiss a guy ?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do he'll never phone you

The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing
But i can weather the storm!
What do i care how much it may storm?
For i've got my love to keep me warm

I can't remember a worse december
Just watch those icicles form!
Oh, what do i care if icicles form?

Ask me how do I feel
now that we're cosy and clinging
Well sir, all I can say, is if I were a bell I'd be ringing!

From the moment we kissed tonight
That's the way I've just gotta behave
Boy, if I were a lamp I'd light
And If I were a banner I'd wave!

If you only knew how in love with you
I have always been hopin' you'd give in
If you only knew

One would never guess what I must confess
But it's really so, though you may not know
You're my happiness

Blow ill wind, blow away, find my love 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

I went down to the dance
Such down by the wall
Invited to dance
By no one at all

The couples danced fine
So charming an' gay
But nobody wants

In A Mellow Tone

In a mellow tone
Feeling fancy free
And I'm not alone
I've got company

Everything's ok

In a sentimental mood
I can see the stars come through my room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of every kiss
Drifts a melody so strange and sweet
In this sentimental bliss
You make my paradise complete

Into each life some rain must fall
But too much is falling in mine
Into each heart some tears must fall
But some day the sun will shine

Some folks can lose the blues in their hearts
But when I think of you another shower starts
Into each life some rain must fall

Written in the Stars (оригинал Ella Fitzgerald)

It was written in the stars
What was written in the stars shall be
It was written in the skies
That the heart and not the eyes shall see

And so whether it bring joy

Ella Fitzgerald - It’s a Lovely Day Today

It’s a lovely day today
So whatever you’ve got to do
You’ve got a lovely day to do it in, that’s true

And I hope whatever you’ve got to do
Is something that can be done by two

It's a pity to say goodnight because I never saw stars so bright
But if you gotta go home, you gotta go home, give me a goodnight kiss
It's a pity to say farewell because the man in the moon won't tell
But if you gotta go home, you gotta go home, give me a goodnight kiss

How's about tomorrow night, just you and me
I'll be waiting for you darlin', underneath the apple tree

It's the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it's the wrong face
It's not his face, but such a charming face
That it's alright with me

It's the wrong song in the wrong style
Though your smile is lovely, it's the wrong smile
It's not his smile, but such a lovely smile

I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm

It's too darn hot

It's too darn hot

I'd like to sup with my baby tonight

Refill the cup with my baby tonight

Lord, this house is goin' to get raided, yes, sir!

Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall, turned to the wall,
Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall;
Look here, Mr. Jail-keeper, put another gal in my stall.

I don't mind bein' in jail, but I got to stay there so long, so long,
I don't mind bein' in jail, but I got to stay there so long, so long,

Jersey Bounce - самая популярная песня 1942 года. Была записана множеством музыкантов, в том числе оркестрами Бэнни Гудмэна, Глена Миллера, Джимми Дорси. В честь этой мелодии название Jercey Bounce использовали для эскадры самолетов-бомбардировщиков, участвовавших в военных действиях в Европе.
Один из лучших вариантов этой песни в исполнении Эллы Фитзжеральд с ее неподражаемым скэтом

(James Pierpont. publ.1857)
Dashing through the snow
On a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go,
Laughing all the way;
Bells on bob-tail ring,
making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing

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

(единственная и неповторимая, снятая с винила)
I am weak, but Thou art strong
Jesus, keep me from all wrong.
I'll be satisfied as long
As I walk let me walk close to Thee

Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea.

I like cake, no mistake, but, baby, if you insist
I'll cut out the cake just for your sake
Baby, come on and knock me a kiss

I like pie; I hope to die just to get a load of this
When you get high, doggone the pie
Baby, come on and knock me a kiss

I don't want to lose you
This good thing that I got
'Cause if I do
I will surely, surely lose a lot
'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know
It's like thunder and lightning
The way you love me is frightening

Every time
I see a puppy upon a summer's day
A puppy dog at play
My heart is filled with envy
That's because
My heart is yearning to pass the time away
Like that pup
'cause I'm all fed up

Let The Lower Lights Be Burning

Brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore
But to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore

Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave
Some poor fainting struggling seaman, you may rescue you may save

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

There may be trouble ahead
But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance..

Before the fiddlers have fled,
Before they ask us to pay the bill, and while we still have that chance,
Let's face the music and dance..

The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes
The night that you told me those little white lies
The stars all seemed to know, that you didn't mean all those sighs
The night that you told me, those little white lies

I try but there's no forgetting when evening appears
I sigh but there's no regretting in spite of my tears

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.

Why are people gay
All the night and day
Feeling as they never felt before
What is the thing
That makes them sing?

Rich man, poor man, thief
Doctor, lawyer, chief

Say, love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won't believe me but I love you only
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else

You might find the night time the right time for kissing
Night-time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else

We can't go on this way,
Laughing at love, day after day,
I'm sincere, you're unfair,
We can't go on this way.

"It's all in fun" you say,
After it's done, someone must pay,
Then there'll be, so much misery,

Oh, lullaby of birdland that's what I
Always hear, when you sigh,
Never in my wordland could there be ways 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

Cradle me where southern skies
Can watch me with a million eyes
Oh sing me to sleep,
Lullaby of the leaves

Cover me with heavens blue
And let me dream a dream or two
Oh sing me to sleep,

Thank you, we'd like to do something for you now
We haven't heard a girl sing it and since it's so popular
We'd like to try and do it for you
We hope we remember all the words

Oh the shark has pearly teeth, dear
And he shows them, pearly white
Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear

Another bride, another June
Another sunny honeymoon
Another season, another reason
For makin' whoopee

A lot of shoes, a lot of rice
The groom is nervous, he answers twice
Its really killin'

Summer journeys to Niagara and to other places
Aggravate 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

Ooh, when your eyes meet mine...pow! pow! Pow!

Ooh, I could lose my mind...ow! ow! ow!

It's a feelin' that things are gonna grow inside me

Til I feel that I'm gonna explode --

Melancholy me
Melancholy over you
All alone and feelin' blue
Are you melancholy too?

Miss you every day
Ever since you went away
Melancholy over you

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 its 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 moonlit 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,

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today
Madam
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today
She is sorry to be delayed
But last evening down on lover's lane she strayed
Madam
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today

Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree,
And I feel like I’m clinging 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.

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,

You ain’t never been blue, no, no, no
You ain’t never been blue
Till you’ve had that mood indigo
That feeling goes stealing down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh
Go along blues

I always get that mood indigo

Whether you are here or yonder,
Whether you are false or true
Whether you remain or wander,
I'm 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

On the first of May
It is moving day
Spring is here, so blow your job
Throw your job away

Now's the time to trust
To your wanderlust
In the city's dust you wait

I blow thru here
The music goes ’round and around
Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
And it comes out here
I push the first valve down
The music goes down and around
Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
And it comes out here

My man's gone now, ain't no use a listening
for his tired footsteps, climbing up the stairs.
ah, oh, old man sorrow's come to keep me company
whispering beside me when I say my prayers.

ain't that a mine working
working I and I travellers
journeying together to the promised land

My one and only,
What am I gonna do if you turn me down
When I'm so crazy over you?

I'd be so lonely
Where am I gonna go if you turn me down
Why blacken all my skies of blue?

Our love

Is a dream, but in my reverie

I can see that this love was meant for me

Only a poor fool

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

Holding hands at midnight
'neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try

Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it

No moon at all, what a night
Even lightnin' bugs have dimmed their lights
Stars have disappeared from sight
And there's no moon at all

Don't make a sound, it's so dark
Even Fido is afraid to bark
What a perfect chance to park

No regrets
Although our love affair has gone astray
No regrets
I know Ill always care though youre away
So now our happy romance ended suddenly
Still in my heart youll be forever mine
No regrets
Because somebody new looks good to you

Serena: (kneeling)
Oh, doctor Jesus, who done trouble de water in de Sea of Gallerie.

Porgy: Amen!

Serena: And likewise who done cas' de devil out of de afflicted time
an' time again.

Listen to my tale of woe,
it's terribly sad but true,
All dressed up, no place to go
Each ev'ning I'm awf'ly blue.
I must win some handsome guy
Can't go on like this,
I could blossom out I know,
With somebody just like you. So...

Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street

Can’t you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet

Once too often
you're gonna step out once too often
I'm gettin' mighty sick and tired
Of totin' a torch for you.
So just be careful brother,
I too, can find another,
Remember, anything that you do,
I can do too.

Its quarter to three,
There's no one in the place cept you and me
So set em up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know

Were drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby

Open your window and take a deep sigh
Think about letting the rest of the world go fly a kite
Takin' it easy is easy as pie
And holdin' your hand is such a natural high

You sent flowers, we spent hours
We can be happy alone in a tent
Think of the money we'd save on rent

Petootie Pie
Petootie Pie
You're my Petootie sugar-fruity dreamy pie
I crave and cram
Your special jam
you're underrated, solidated Superman
And every gal who passes
Just looks and hollas "Oh!"

Reach for tomorrow
Today belongs to the past
The golden hopes of your yesterdays
Can all be yours at last

Reach for tomorrow
And keep your head in the sky
You may get hurt

The moon and you appear to be
So near and yet so far from me
And here am I on a night in june
Reaching for the moon and you,

I wonder if we’ll ever meet
My song of love is incomplete
I’m just the words, looking for the tune

Rhythm and romance
Romance and rhythm
Taught me to sparkle anew
Brought me dream-of-able you
Sweetheart

Rhythm and romance
Romance and rhythm

Life's great, life's grand
Future, all planned
No more clouds in the sky
How'm I ridin', I'm ridin' high
Someone, I love
Mad for, my love
So long, Jonah, goodbye
How'm I ridin', I'm ridin' high

Give me something gentle
Make it sentimental
Whatever you could suggest
I'll take Robbin's Nest

Make it sweet and tender
So I must surrender
You know I'd like nothing but the best

I heard it came to town
A new kind of rhythm
Spread around
Sort of set you sizzlin'
Now I'm all through with symphony
Oh, rock it for me

Every night

Rock of Ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee
Let the water and the blood
From thy riven side which flowed
Be of sin the double cure
Cleanse me from it's guilt and power

While I draw this fleeting breath,

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph

Where the dreamy volga flows
Theres a lonely russian rose
Gazing tenderly
Down upon her knee
Where a babys brown eyes glisten
Listen
Evry night youll hear her croon
A russian lullaby

Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney,
Stuck in my chimney, stuck in the chimney
Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney
When he came last year

There he was in middle of the chimney
Roly-poly, fat and round
There he was in middle of the chimney

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why

Santa claus is comin' to town
Santa claus is comin' to town
Santa claus is comin' to town

Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney
Written by William D.Hardy, Billy Moore, Jr.

Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney,
Stuck in my chimney, stuck in the chimney
Santa Claus got stuck in my chimney
When he came last year

When he was a young man courting the girls
He played a waiting game
If a maid refused him with tossing curls
He'd let the old Earth take a couple of whirls
For as time went along she came his way
As time went along, she came

But it's a long, long while from May to December

She didn’t say yes
She didn’t say no
She didn’t say stay
She didn’t say go

She only knew that he had spied her there
And then she knew he sat beside her there

Signing Off

Signing off
Does it surprize you
I won't need your lips anymore
Signing off
Can't idolize you
My heart crossed your name off the door

Go on and sing my heart
You know it's spring my heart
So why not show it?

Pretend you're glad my heart
Although you're sad my heart
He mustn't know it

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

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

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

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too
Come on, its lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you,
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling Yoo hoo,
Come on, its lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.

Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy and cozy are we
Were snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be
Lets take the road before us and sing a chorus or two

We didn't break apart in stormy weather
We didn't run around like others do
Now we're not afraid when storm clouds gather
'Cause we got the kind of love that'll see us through

[Chorus]
We've got smooth sailing, sailing
Looks like every drop of rain is gone, gone, gone

Intro:

So danco samba
So danco samba, vai, vai, vai, vai, vai
So danco samba
So danco samba, vai
So danco samba
So danco samba, vai, vai, vai, vai, vai

What is so rare as a day in June?
'Till now we have never been told
The old question's answered by one that is new
What is so rare, dear, as you?

So rare, you're like the fragrance of blossoms fair
Sweet as a breath of air
Fresh with the morning dew

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'm somebody nobody loves
Oh me, oh my, my, my
I'm somebody nobody loves,
I wonder why, why, why

Although I know it's sounds alarmin'
I've prayed on bended knee
For that certain gay prince charmin'

When all the clouds darken up the skyway
There's a rainbow highway to be found
Leading from your window pane
Just a step beyond the rain

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue

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,

Once there was a thing called spring
When the world was writing verses like yours and mine,
All the lads and girls would sing
When we sat at little tables and drank may wine.

Now april, may and june
Are sadly out of tune
Life has stuck a pin in the boat.

Let's build a stairway to the stars
And climb that stairway to the stars
With Love beside us
To fill the night with a song
We'll hear the sound of violins
Out yonder where the blue begins
The moon will guide us
As we go drifting along.

Love here in the starlit hour
Oh, heaven is in your eyes
While the wind is sobbing
Underneath the stars
Both our hearts are throbbing
Like two guitars

Love here in the starlit hour

The song a robin sings,
Through years of endless springs,
The murmur of a brook at evening tides.
That ripples through a nook where two lovers hide.

That great symphonic theme,
That`s Stella by starlight,
And not a dream,

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

He's stone cold dead in the market
He's stone cold dead in the market
He's stone cold dead in the market
I killed nobody but my husband

Last night I went out drinking
When I came home I gave her a beating
So she ? the rolling pin and went to work on my head

Let the drums roll out
Let the trumpet call
While the people shout
"strike up the band"

Hear the cymbals ring
Callin' one and all
To the martial swing,

Have you heard these blues
That I'm gonna sing to you
When you hear them they will thrill you
Through and through
There the sweetest blues you ever heard
Now listen and don't say a word

Sugar blues

Ella:
Summertime when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high
You're daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry

Louis:
One of thses mornings you gonna rise up singing

Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain.
Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain.
The dark days are gone, and the bright days are here,
My sunny one shines so sincere.
Sunny one so true, I love you.

Sunny, thank you for the sunshine bouquet.
Sunny, thank you for the love you brought my way.

Близится рассвет,
Когда огоньки закрывают их уставшие глаза.
Я скоро буду рядом, моя любовь,
Чтобы устроить тебе рассветный сюрприз.
Я очень скоро буду с тобой, дорогая,
Я буду с тобой, когда начнется звездопад.

Я очень долго ждал,

No gal made, has got a shade on sweet Georgia Brown
Two left feet but oh so neat, has sweet Georgia Brown
They all sigh and wanna cry for sweet Georgia Brown
I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie, not much

'Cause it's been said that she knocks 'em dead
When she lands in town
What a shame, what a shame

Picture me upon your knee
Just tea for two
And two for tea
Just me for you
And you for me alone

Nobody near us to see us or hear us
No friends or relations

{spoken} thank you. we'd like to do something for you now.
We haven't heard a girl sing it. and since it's so popular,
We'd like to try and do it for you.
We hope we remember all the words.{}

Oh, the shark has pearly teeth, dear
And he shows them, pearly white
Just a jack knife has macheath, dear

Well have a blue room
A new room for two room
Where evry days a holiday
Because youre 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.

Oh, how I love him
But he just doesn't see

Tall and tan and young and handsome
The boy from Ipanema goes walking
And when he passes
Each girl he passes goes, ah

The gentleman is a dope, a man of many faults
A clumsy Joe who wouldn't know a Rhumba from a Waltz
The gentleman is a dope and not my cup of tea
(Why do I get in a dither? He doesn't belong to me)

The gentleman isn't bright; he doesn't know the score
A Cake will come; he'll take a crumb and never ask for more
The gentleman's eyes are blue, but little do they see

1 - Black Coffee
2 - Angel Eyes
3 - I Cried For You
4 - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
5 - Then You've Never Been Blue
6 - I Hadn't Anyone Till You
7 - My Melancholy Baby
8 - Misty

Someday he'll come along - the man I love -
And he'll be big and strong - the man I love -
And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay.

He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand,
And in a little while he'll take my hand,
And though it seems absurd

The Old Rugged Cross
Words & Music: George Bennard, 1913

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.

Near Barcelona, the peasant crooned
The old traditional Spanish tunes
The Neapolitan street song sighs
You think of Italian skies

Each nation has a creative vein
Originating a native strain
With folk songs plaintive and others gay

The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear
Are still inside my head
The kindest words I'll ever know
Are waiting to be said
The most entrancing sight of all
Is yet for me to see
And the dearest love in all the world
Is waiting somewhere for me

The odds were a hundred to one against me

The world thought the heights were too high to climb

But people from missouri never incensed me

Oh, I wasnt a bit concerned

Got so weary of bein' nothin',
Felt so dreary just doin' nothin'
Didn't care ever gettin' nothin', felt so low

Now my eyes on the far horizon can see a glow
Announcin' things ain't what they used to be.

No use bein' a doubtin' Thomas,

I never knew what I'd go through without you
Or how much I need for you to believe in me
But it won't have to be like before
'Cause I don't have to lie anymore

[Chorus]
'Cause this time it's real
The way that I feel about you

Time after time
I tell myself I'm so lucky
To be loving you
I'm so lucky to be
The one you run to see
In the evening
When the day is through

First you say you do
And then you dont
And then you say you will
And then you wont
Youre undecided now
So what are you gonna do?
Now you want to play
And then its no

Don't you know I'd work for you, I'd slave for you
Be a beggar or a knave for you?
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along

Gladly move the earth for you
Prove my love, dear, and it's worth it for you
If that isn't love, it'll have to do

01. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
02. Caravan
03. They Can't Take That Away From Me
04. Ev'rything I've Got
05. In A Mellow Tone
06. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
07. You Hit The Spot
08. Born To Be Blue

Wait till you see him
See how he looks
Wait till you hear him laugh.

Painters of paintings
Writers of books
Never could tell the half.

Yeah, walk right in, sit right down, daddy, let your mind roll on
Everybody, walk right in, sit right down, daddy, let your mind roll on
Everybody's takin' 'bout a new way of walkin'
Do you wanna lose your mind? Walk right in, sit right down
Daddy, let your mind roll on

Walk right in, sit right down, baby, let your hair hang down
Walk right in, sit right down, baby, let your hair hang down

Let someone start believing in you,
let him hold out his hand
Let him touch you and watch what happens
One someone who can look in your eyes,
and see into your heart
Let him find you and watch what happens
Cold, no I won't believe your heart is cold
Maybe just afraid to be broken again

What's your story, morning glory?
What makes you look so blue?
The way that you've been acting
I don't know what to do
For I love you, sure as one and one make two
What's your story, morning glory?
Got a feeling there's a lot you're concealing
So, won't you let me know your point of view?

What's your story, morning glory
What makes you look so blue
The way that you've been acting
I don't know what to do
For I love you, sure as one and one make two
What's your story, morning glory
Got a feeling there's a lot you're concealing
So, won't you let me know your point of view

Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have
No regrets
Recline yourself
Resign yourself, you`re through

I always get, what I aim for

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

My fur coat's sold
Oh Lord ain't it cold
But I'm not gonna holler
Cause I've still got a dollar
And when I get low
Oh, I get high

My man walked out

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

Gone my lovers dream
Lovely summer dream

Very far away in a foreign land
Lives the yellow woman and the yellow man
He's been around for many-a-year
They say they were there before we were here
Eatin' rice all day while the children play
You see, he believes in the family just like you and me

Oh, yellow man, oh, yellow man

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days

Days of mad romance and love

You're My Thrill

Jay Gorney / Sidney Clare

You're my thrill
You do something to me
You send chills right through me
When I look at you

At words poetic I'm so pathetic
That I always have found it best
Instead of getting 'em off my chest
To let 'em rest, unexpressed
I hate parading my serenading
As I'll probably miss a bar
But if this ditty is not so pretty
At least it'll tell you how great you are

If you wanna go crazy and act like a clown
Be the laughing stock all over town
That's your red wagon, that's your red wagon
So just keep dragging your red wagon along

If you stick your nose some place it don't belong
Don't you come to me if things go wrong
That's your red wagon, that's your red wagon