set the mood for the whole song, and when you read them,
you just have to sing it. You have no choice.
The chain of events starts, and the melody and the memories
of the song follow in your mind no matter what you do.
---- When you're down and troubled and you need
some love and care, ----
---- and nothin', nothin' is goin' right ----
---- Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there
----
---- to brighten up even your darkest night. ----
---- Don't look so sad, I know it's over ----
---- But life goes on, and this old world will keep on turning
----
---- In olden days a glimpse of stocking was
thought to be something shocking, ----
---- Now heaven knows, anything goes.----
---- Your day breaks, your mind aches, you find
that ----
---- all her words of kindness linger on when she no longer needs
you. ----
---- I saw Uncle John with bald headed Sally.----
---- He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked up in the alley. ----
---- When the Deep Purple falls over sleepy garden
walls ----
---- And the stars begin to twinkle in the night ----
---- You can rock it you can roll it You can
slop and you can stroll it at the hop ----
---- When the record starts spinnin' You chalypso when you chicken
at the hop ----
---- Countin' flowers on the wall; that don't
bother me at all, ----
---- Playin' Solitaire till one with a pack of fifty one . . .----
---- Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early
light, ----
---- What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
----
---- Don't Blame Me, for fallin' in love with
you ----
---- I'm under your spell, but how can I help it, Don't Blame
Me. ----
---- You'll never ever know the one who loves
you so, ----
---- No you don't know me. ----
---- Where never is heard, a discouraging word,
----
---- and the skies are not cloudy all day. ----
---- Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time. ----
---- Oh I wonder ,wonder who . . (Oopie doo ah) Who wrote the book of love? ----
---- "Ab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab-a,
dab-a, dab," ----
---- Said the Chimp-ie to the Monk.----
---- "The game of just supposing is the
sweetest game I know. ----
---- Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see.----
---- And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so, ----
---- that's just an unimportant technicality. ----
---- Oscar Hammerstein II ----
---- It was a one eye, one-horned, flying purple
people eater, ----
---- sure looked strange to me ----
---- Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely
nights,----
---- Dreamin' of a song...the melody haunts my revery ----
---- I love coffee, I love tea. ----
---- I love the Java Jive and it loves me. ----
---- Song sung blue, Everybody knows one ----
---- Song sung blue, Every garden grows one ----
---- He remembers the first time he met her ----
---- He remembers the first thing she said ----
---- He rememvers the first time he held her ----
---- And the night that she came to his bed ----
---- Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh ----
---- Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou. ----
---- She's leaving now cause I can hear the slamming
of a door ----
---- The way I know I heard it slammed one hundred times before
----
---- You'll never know how great a kiss can feel
----
---- When you've stopped at the top of the Ferris wheel ----
---- On the way to Mexico, I saw you on a train,
----
---- Yellow flowers in your hair, your eyes reflectin' rain ----
---- Take the last train to Clarksville. ----
---- I'll be waiting at the station. ----
---- We'll have time for coffee flavored kisses ----
---- And a bit of conversation. ----
---- Plays by intuition, the digit counters fall
----
---- That deaf,dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.----
---- I've been consulted by Franklin D. ----
---- Greta Garbo has had me to tea ----
---- Still I'm broken hearted cause ----
---- I can't get started with you ----
---- Don't look so sad, I know it's over ----
---- But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning
----
---- A man walks down the street ----
---- He says why am I soft in the middle now ----
---- Why am I soft in the middle ----
---- The rest of my life is so hard ----
---- Never thought I'd fall, but now I hear
love call ----
---- I'm gettin' sentimental over you ----
---- Bye, bye, miss American pie
---- Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry ----
---- I ain't looken' to compete with you, Beat
or cheat or mistreat you ----
---- Simplify you or classify you, Deny, defy or crucify you
----
---- All I reallly want to do is, Baby make friends with you
----
---- Mrs. Brown you have a lovely daughter ----
---- Girls as sharp as her are something rare ----
---- Got a date with an angel, Got to meet her
at seven ----
---- Got a date with an angel, And I'm on my way to heaven. ----
---- So long, Honey Babe, / Where I'm bound
I can't tell ----
---- But good bye is too good a word babe. / So I'll just say
fare thee well. ----
---- I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind. /
You could of done better but I don't mind ----
---- You just sort of wasted my precious time. / But don't think
twice, it's all right. ----
---- Ay Ay Ay AY, Canta no llores ----
---- Porque cantando sel alegran Cielito lindo los corazones.
----
---- I can't stop loving you So I've made up
my mind -----
---- To live in memory, Of old lonesome times -----
---- I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for
you. In worn out shoes. ----
---- The silver hair and ragged shirt and baggy pants, the old
soft shoe. ----
---- Desmon has his barrow in the marketplace
----
---- Molly is a singer in a band ----
---- You check out Guitar George he knows all the
chords. ----
---- Mind, he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or
sing. ----
---- An old guitar is all he can afford ----
---- when he gets up under the lights to play his thing. ----
---- And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene. ----
---- He's got a daytime job he's doing alright.----
---- He can play honky tonk just like anything ----
---- saving it up for Friday night ----
---- It’s not the pale moon that excites
me ----
---- That thrills and delights me, oh no ----
---- It’s just the nearness of you ----
---- Do I worry when the iceman calls ----
---- Do I worry if Niagara Falls . . . . . ----
---- Do I worry, honey, you know dog gone well I do
---- Kansas City star, that’s what I are
----
---- Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my car ----
---- When my life is through ----
---- And the angels ask me to recall The thrill of it all ----
---- Then I will tell them I remember you-oo ----
---- Just knock three times and whisper low, ----
---- That you and I were sent by Joe -----
---- Then strike a match and you will know, ----
---- You're in Hernando's Hideaway! -----
---- Love me tender, Love me true, All my dreams
fulfilled. ----
---- For my darling, I l0ve you, and I always will. -----
---- People say she's crazy, She got diamonds
on the soles of her shoes ----
---- Well that's one way to lose these walking blues -----
---- A man walks down the street. He says why
am I soft in the middle now. ----
---- Why am I soft in the middle. The rest of my life is so hard.
-----
---- I'm gonna wrap myself in paper. I'm gonna
daub myself with glue. ----
---- Stick some stamps on the top of my head, I'm gonna mail
myself to you. -----
---- I hate to see that evening sun go down.
I hate to see that evening sun go down. ----
---- 'Cause my baby she done left this town. -----
---- He makes the night a little brighter, wherever
he may go. ----
---- The Old Lamplighter of long, long ago. -----
---- Light she was, and like a fairy, and her
shoes were number nine. ----
---- Herring boxes without topses, sandles were for Clementine.
-----
---- You're window shoppin', just window shoppin'.
You're window shoppin' thats all.----
---- You're not buyin', you're just tryin' To find the best deal
in town. -----
---- You don't have to say you love me, Just be
close at hand. ----
---- You don't have to stay forever, I will understand. ----
---- Light she was, and like a fairy, and her shoes
were number nine. ----
---- Herring boxes without topses, sandles were for Clementine.
-----
---- Light she was, and like a fairy, and her shoes
were number nine. ----
---- Herring boxes without topses, sandles were for Clementine.
----
---- An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day ----
---- Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way ----
---- When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw ----
---- A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw ----
---- At my door the leaves are falling, A cold wild wind has come
----
---- Sweethearts walk by together , And I still miss someone --
---- Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? ----
---- He sounds too blue to fly. ----
---- The midnight train is whining low: -----
---- I'm so lonesome I could cry. ----
---- Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon, up in the sky. ----
---- I ain't had no lovin' since January February, June or July.
----
---- Snowtime ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon, ----
---- So shine on, shine on harvest moon for me and my gal ----
---- You are my sunshine, my only sunshine ----
---- You make me happy when skies are gray ----
---- You never know dear how much I love you ----
---- Please don't take my sunshine away ----
---- Bye, bye love. Bye, bye sweet caress. ----
---- Hello loneliness. I think I'm gonna die. I think I'm gonna
die. ----
---- When Frances Dances With Me, Hully Gee ----
---- I'm as gay as can be. ----
---- ----