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Leonard feather Well good morning baby welcome back to town How’d, fine papa, welcome back to town You’re doing so much travelling never know When you’ll be around You’re a fine and mellow fellow But you’re stubborn as a mule You love me like an angel But you treat me like a fool Two-faced daddy [...]
Arnold clawson / toussaint pope Please tell me now How much you care Before we say good night, my dear You’ll never say That you’ll be mine Why keep me waiting? Please tell me now Day and night i’m wondering Do you really care? Must i go on wondering About this love affair? My heart [...]
Maceo pinkard / william tracey / doris tauber I fell in love with you first time i looked into Them there eyes You’ve got a certain lil’ cute way of flirtin’ with Them there eyes They make me feel happy They make me feel blue No stallin’ I’m fallin’ Going in a big way for [...]
Wesley ‘sox’ wilson Up in harlem every saturday night Where the highbrows get together It’s just too right They all congregate and all night hop And what they do is ooh boppa dap Ole hanna brown from way across town Gets full of corn and starts Bringing them down And at the break of day [...]
Cole porter What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve its mystery? Why should it make a fool of me? I saw you there one wonderful day You took my heart and trew it away That’s why i ask the lord in heaven above What is this thing [...]
Wesley ‘sox’ wilson If i call three times a day Come and drive my blues away When you come, be ready to play Do your duty If you want to have some love Give your baby your last buck Don’t come quackin’ like a duck Do your duty I heard you say you didn’t love [...]
Leonard bernstein So you cry What’s it about, baby? You ask why Blues had to go and pick you So you go Down to the shore, kid’s stuff Don’t you know There’s honey in the store for you, big stuff Let’s take a ride on my gravy train The door open wide So you stare [...]
Billie holiday / curtis r. lewis Hey fat daddy make up your mind ’cause i’ve been waiting such a long, long time Now baby or never ’cause i been so good to you Now baby or never ’cause i’ve been so lonesome, too Now baby or never if i mean anything to you Now baby [...]
Isham jones / marty symes There is no greater love Than what i feel for you No greater love, no heart so true There is no greater thrill Than what you bring to me No sweeter song Than what you sing to me You’re the sweetest thing I have ever known And to think that [...]
Billie holiday / arthur herzog jr. Them that’s got shall get Them that’s not shall lose So the bible said and it still is news Mama may have, papa may have But god bless the child that’s got his own That’s got his own Yes, the strong gets more While the weak ones fade Empty [...]
George and ira gershwin / dubose heyward I love you, porgy Don’t let him take me Don’t let him handle me And drive me mad If you can keep me I want to stay with you forever And i’ll be glad I love you, porgy Don’t let him take me Don’t let him handle me [...]
Ernest schweikert / frank reardon When i hear them say There’s better living Let them go their way To that new living I won’t ever stray ’cause this is heaven to me Long as freedom grows (long as freedom grows) I want to seek it if it’s yes or no (if it’s yes or no) [...]
Gordon jenkins / tom adair I’m just about fed up I’ve finally had my fill Of sitting around and crying in my beer I’ve drunk the bitter cup I’ve downed the bitter pill While waiting for the silver lining to appear I’m going to stack my blues up On the very highest shelf I’m going [...]
Ralph blane Girls were made to take care of boys To be kind and dutiful Hmmm… Girls were made to take care of boys Made to share their sorrows Made to share their joys Made to help and guide them With ever a patient hand Made to give affection In the right direction (always understand) [...]
Irene higginbotham / dan fisher / sammy gallop No good man Lovin’ all the no good things Never treats me as he should That ain’t no good He’s always bringing me down He’s no saint Heaven knows thats what he ain’t Spends his money foolishly Not on me I’m the one who gets the run-around [...]
Gus kahn / harry akst / richard whiting Is it a sin, is it a crime Loving you dear like i do If it’s a crime, then, i’m guilty Guilty of loving you Maybe i’m wrong dreaming of you Dreaming the lonely night thru If it’s a crime, then, i’m guilty Guilty of dreaming of [...]
Carl sigman / bob russell I say i’ll move the mountains And i’ll move the mountains If he wants them out of the way Crazy he calls me Sure, i’m crazy Crazy in love, i say I say i’ll go through fire And i’ll go through fire As he wants it, so it will be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]