album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 Up in the mornin’, Out on the job, work like the devil for my pay But that lucky old sun got nothin’ to do, but roll around heaven all day. Fuss with my woman, toil for my kids, sweat till I’m wrinkled and gray While that lucky old [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 There were tears in the crowded congregation, There were hearts that have loved but all in vain, T’was goodbye to the sweetheart of the nation, At the wedding of Lili Marlene. Men who’d marched where the desert sands were burning, From Tobruc down the road to Alamein. In [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 We’re just a kiss apart, and yet we dance on and on, We’re just a kiss apart, and soon our chance will be gone. Now you’re beside my heart, your eyes have started to shine, Oh but I know too well, daybreak may break the spell. So while [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 (The Modernaires) [both Frank and the Modernaires} I'm feeling low, mighty low, I wonder why, I wonder why, why am I such a lonely guy? A man's a fool to be alone when the sun goes down, You need a woman of your own, when the sun goes [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 (Why remind me) the way we used to talk and laugh, I don’t need any photograph to think of you [think of you], (Why remind me) the way we danced the whole night long, I don’t need records of our song to sing it through. I don’t need [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 On the island of Stromboli, recklessly I gave my heart, On the island of Stromboli, every dream I own had its start. If you tell me it was madness, I can only shrug and sigh, If you ask me for a reason, I can’t tell you why. It [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 (Shiela, Shiela, wa wawawa woo) Shiela is yesterday’s kiss, The girl who loved me, the heart that I miss, At times when old flames reappear, I cry over souvenirs, or smile at lonely flowers. Those hours with Shiela, I’ll never regain, Their light has faded like one summer [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 (Woe, it’s lover’s quarrel that they never should have started,) (A dearly lover’s quarrel and it’s left them broken-hearted.) Oh, I’m sorry, can’t you see that I’m sorry, All my life I’ll be sorry, I was mean to you. You’re so dear to me, when you’re near to [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 (Paula Kelly) [both Frank and Paula]) We ought to bake a sunshine cake, It does more good than a big thick steak, (Start with a tablespoon of trouble,) (Then add a smile and let it bubble off.) [We ought to bake a sunshine cake] (It isn’t really so [...]
album: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, Vol. 10 Won’t say that grass will grow or ivy will climb, But darling, I’d say, we’ve got a sure thing this time, I’d say that we’re on our way to a star, And, take a tip from me, we are, we are. Won’t say that rivers flow or day [...]
