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W.c. handy Love is like a hydrant turns off and on Like some friendships when your money’s gone Love stands in with the loan sharks when your heart’s in tongs It i had some strong wings like an aeroplane Had some broad wings like an aeroplane I would fly away forever Hover to come again [...]
Johnny w. green / edward heyman / robert sour / frank eyton You’re making me blue All that you do Seems unfair You try not to hear Turn a deaf ear To my prayer It seems you don’t want to see What you are doingg to me My arms are waiting to caress you And [...]
Ella fitzgerald / teddy mcrae / chick webb / green You showed me the way When i was someone in distress A heart in search of happiness You showed me the way My sky was so gray I never knew i’d feel a thrill I couldn’t dream a dream until You showed me the way [...]
John (?) redmond / lee david Oh clouds above me Where are the birds that used to sing? Everything’s wrong Oh where is their song of love? Where is the one Who said he loved me Far, like those clouds he used to bring Can it be true there’s somebody new to love? Listen my [...]
Will hudson / edgar delange / irving mills It must have been that moonglow Way up in the blue It must have been moonglow That led me straight to you I still hear you saying "dear one, hold me fast" And i start in praying Oh lord, please let this last We seemed to float [...]
Billie holiday / mal waldron Where’s the love that’s made to fill my heart? Where’s the one from whom i’ll never part? First they hurt me, then desert me I’m left alone, all alone There’s no house that i can call my home There’s no place from which i’ll never roam Town or city, it’s [...]
Irene kitchings / arthur herzog jr. Some other spring I’ll try to love Now i still cling To faded blossoms Fresh from worn Left chrushed and torn Like the love affair i mourn Some other spring When twilight falls Will the night bring Another to me? Not your kind But let me find It’s not [...]
George cory / douglass cross Lonely grief is hounding me Like the lonely shadow hounding me It’s always there just out of sight Like a fragling tree on a lightening night Lonely wind cries out my name Sad as haunted music in the rain It’s born of grief and born of woe But i hear [...]
Irvin graham / s. bickley reichner You better go now Because i like you much, too much You have a way with you You ought to know now Just why i like you very much The night was gay with you There’s the moon above And it gives my heart a lot of swing In [...]
George and ira gershwin A foggy day, in london town It had me low, and it had me down I viewed the morning, with much alarm The british museum, had lost its charm How long i wondered, could this thing last But the age of miracles, it hadn’t past And suddenly, i saw you standing [...]
Leo robin / ralph rainger Living for you is easy living It’s easy to live when you’re in love And i’m so in love There is nothing in life but you I never regret the years that i’m giving They’re easy to give when you’re in love I’m happy to do whatever i do for [...]
A smile on my face A song on my lips Pretending is all I do I’m painting the town red To hide a heart that’s blue I’m gay with the crowd I play with the crowd But oh, if they only knew I’m painting the town red To hide a heart that’s blue Must I [...]
Carter / s. lewis / r. seress Sunday is gloomy, My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coaches Sorrow has taken you Angels have no thoughts Of ever returning you Wouldn’t they be angry If i thought of joining [...]