Richard rodgers / lorenz hart I’m a sentimental sap, that’s all, What’s the use of trying not to fall? I have no will, you’ve made your kill ’cause you took advantage of me. I’m just like an apple on a bough And you’re gonna shake me down somehow, So what’s the use, you’ve cooked my […]
Jerome kern / otto harbach Yesterdays Days are new as happy sweet Sequestered days Olden days Golden days Days of mad romance and love Them gay youth was mine Truth was mine Join us be in flame and live Then sooth was mine Sad and mired Glad and mired For today i’m dreamin’ of Yesterdays
Ann ronell Willow weep for me Willow weep for me Bent your branches down along the ground and cover me Listen to my plea Hear me willow and weep for me Gone my lovely dreams Lovely summer dreams Gone and left me here To wheep my tears along the stream Sad as i can be […]
Einar aaron swan What good is the scheming, the planning and dreaming That comes with each new love affair The dreams that we cherish, so often might perish And leaves you with castles in air When you’re alone, who cares for starlit skies When you’re alone, the magic moonlight dies At break of dawn, there […]
Leon rené / otis rené / clarence muse Homesick, tired, all alone in a big city Why should eveybody pity me? Nighttime falling, and i’m yearning for virginia Hospitality within ya calls me Pale moon shining on the fields below Folks are crooning songs soft and low Need not tell me so, Because i know […]
Peter tinturin What shall i say When our neighbours want us to come to tea? They don’t know you’re not with me What shall i say? What shall i say When the phone rings and someone asks for you They don’t know i ask for you too What shall i say? How can i hide […]
Johnny mercer / richard whiting You’re just to marvelous Too marvelous for words Like glorious, glamorous And that old standby amorous It’s all too wonderful I’ll never find the phrase That says enough, tells enough I mean just aren’t swell enough You’re much too much, and just too very very To ever be, to ever […]
W. benton overstreet / billy higgins They say don’t change the old for the new But i’ve found out that this will never do When you grow old don’t last long You’re here today and then tomorrow you’re gone I loved a man for many years gone by I thought his love for me would […]
Tenderly - Billie Holiday
Walter gross / jack lawrence 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 […]
Ted koehler / harold arlen Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and i ain’t together, Keeps rainin’ all the time Life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere Stormy weather Just can’t get my poorself together, I’m weary all the time So weary all the time When […]
