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Outside of loving you, I like you And liking you makes me love you more You’re fun to be with and disagree with While drinking cocktails or sipping tea with Outside of kissing you, I like you It sweetens the kisses I adore I love making love to you but after the kissing ends Outside [...]
[Maizie:] You can have him I don’t want him He’s not worth fighting for Besides there’s plenty more where he came from I don’t want him You can have him I’m giving him the sack And he can go right back where he came from I could never make him happy He’d be better off [...]
Liberty, Miss Liberty We welcome you here to our shores Liberty, Miss Liberty The key to the city is yours Liberty, Miss Liberty You’re not just the symbol of a statue that we love But the most beautiful girl in the world Would you like to dine some evening at the Astors? -I’d love to [...]
Ev’rything went wrong And the whole day long I’d feel so blue For the longest while I forgot to smile Then I met you Now that my blue days have passed Now that I’ve found you at last I’ll be loving you, always With a love that’s true, always When the things you’ve planned Need [...]
Behind the hill There’s a busy little still Where your pappy’s workin’ in the moonlight Your lovin’ pa Isn’t quite within the law So he’s hidin’ there behind the hill Bye bye, baby Stop your yawnin’ Don’t cry, baby Day will be dawnin’ And when it does From the mountain where he was He’ll be [...]
[As sung in film by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire:] [BOTH:] In us you see a couple of song and dance men [BING:] I’m the song [FRED:] I’m the dance [BOTH:] For laughter, joy and happiness, we’re advance men [BING:] With a song [FRED:] And a dance [BING:] I sing for my supper [FRED:] I [...]
[1st verse:] My pulse is jumpin’ so nice Oh! honey, can’t you hear My heart is thumpin’ so nice Oh! honey, cuddle near Don’t you know the reason why I’m feeling so? Can’t you hear me sigh? If you really want to know, here’s the reason why [chorus:] I kinda liked it when you gave [...]
[1st verse:] You all have your favorite masters The kind what music give Did you ever, ever meet my lovin’ piano man No? then you’ve yet to live He sits on his stool like a king on the throne And plays and plays with ease Why the melody just nestles in his finger tips And [...]
[1st verse:] Sherman and Washington fighting men Hip, hip hurray for them, then hip, hip again Grant and Lee in history Proved they were true born fighting soldiers Dewey, Hobson and Schley as well Were heroes at every go While on the subject, I’d like to tell Of a real live soldier I know [chorus:] [...]
Here’s that man again waiting at your garden gate With a bouquet, don’t you send me away, have a little pity, Kate Poor me, can’t you see I’m in an awful state? How much longer must I wait, Kate Till you let me know my fate, Kate? The sun’s down, the moon’s out, there’s no [...]
I’m so unhappy What’ll I do? I long for somebody who Will sympathize with me I’m growing so tired of living alone I lie awake all night and cry Nobody loves me That’s why All by myself in the morning All by myself in the night I sit alone with a table and a chair [...]
[1st verse:] Moon was slyly peeping from above On a summer’s night Sally Brown and Joe were making love ‘Neath the pale moonlight Sally said, “I think I’d better go” As she rolled her eyes But foxy little Joe Said, “There’s a game I know Called telling lies” [chorus:] Telling lies Telling lies Say you [...]
[Full title: "Bring Me a Ring in the Spring and I'll Know That You Love Me".] [1st verse:] Spooning and crooning they sit Loving it quite a bit Telling lies by the pack See him steal a kiss from the pretty miss Watch him put it back, smack! “Honey, oh, honey, I swear By my [...]
[1st verse:] What’ll I do? What’ll I do? I’m just as sad as can be Something awful happened to me What’ll I do? What’ll I do? I’m in a terrible plight Like a great big fool I did A very silly thing last night [chorus:] I left my door open and my daddy walked out [...]
When the war was over, why, there were jobs galore For the G.I. Josephs who were in the war But for generals things were not so grand And it’s not so hard to understand What can you do with a general When he stops being a general? Oh, what can you do with a general [...]
A pale new moon, a sky of blue And here am I but where are you? A dream of love would soon come true If I could reach the moon and you The moon and you appear to be So near and yet so far from me And here am I on a night in [...]
[original title: "Simple Melody"] [1st verse:] The diff’rent lays of nowadays All set my brain a whirl They’re not the kind of songs they sang When mother was a girl Your spoony rags and coony drags All made my poor heart ache Bring back the rhymes of olden times And just for old times sake [...]
[1st verse:] Ev’ry 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 And tho’ it’s wrong to be I long to be [chorus:] Lazy I [...]
Where the dreamy Volga flows There’s a lonely Russian Rose Gazing tenderly Down upon her knee Where a baby’s brown eyes glisten Listen Ev’ry night you’ll hear her croon A Russian lullaby Just a little plaintive tune When baby starts to cry Rock-a-bye my baby Somewhere there may be A land that’s free for you [...]
[1st verse:] Alexander Adams played a clarinet Brought out music that no one has brought out yet Miss Eliza Johnson was his angel pet And Alexander was her one best bet Strange to say they quarreled on last Sunday night Monday evening Alexander came in sight Played his clarinet beneath her window light To hear [...]