album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
When you awake, the day takes a bow at your door,
When you awake, the sun shines like never before,
Cloud soaked with rain find it hard to explain to the earth below,
They can’t let it rain for then it would stain a [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
Why was I born, why am I livin’?
What do I get, what am I givin’?
Why do I want a thing I daren’t hope for?
What can I hope for? I wish I knew
Why do I try to draw you near me?
Why do [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
Once there was a thing called spring,
When the world was writing verses like yours and mine.
All the lads and girls would sing,
When we sat at little tables and drank May wine.
Now April, May, and June are sadly out of tune, life [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
with (Pearl Bailey)
Hey, Pearl, what’s bugging you, girl?
(Too much knowledge, Frank, too much knowledge.)
Explain it to me.
(Well, it was down at school at the age of six.)
One of the real quiz kids.
(Yeah , so did reason and lightning touch.)
Usual thought.
(As time [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
with (Pearl Bailey)
Yeah, like I said that knowledge can mess up your life at times.
(Oh it makes you so nervous, I got a blank, now what’s with you Frank?)
Well, dig me, I started to school just like all kids do.
(You mean, [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
You’re mean to me
Why must you be mean to me?
Gee, baby, it seems to me
You’d love to see me cryin’
I don’t know why I stay home
Each night when you say that you’ll phone
You don’t, and I’m left alone
Singin’ the blues ‘n’ [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
I went down to Virginia and no one sent for me,
I went down to Virginia to see what I could see.
Well I found the horses that some of the gals took bets,
The spirits of the states are guaranteed high sets
So I [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
In this world of ordinary people
Extraordinary people
I’m glad there is you
In this world of over-rated pleasures
Of under-rated treasures
I’m so glad there is you
I live to love, I love to live with you beside me
This role so new, I’ll muddle through with [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
If I only had a match, then my cares I’d soon forget.
All I need would be a match if I had a cigarette.
If I had a cigarette, I could watch the smoke rings curl.
But I’d really be all set, if I [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 8
If I steal a kiss, dear, I’ll surely return it someday.
If I steal your dreams, dear, I’ll bring them back some way.
If I steal your moonlight, I’ll bring it back more divine,
But if I steal your heart, dear, I’ll keep it [...]
