Let me sigh, let me cry
When I’m blue
Let me go way from this lonely town
Won’t be long till my song
Will be through
Cause I know I’m on my last go-round
All the love I could steal beg or borrow
Wouldn’t heal all this pain in my soul
What is love? Only a prelude to sorrow
With a heartbreak ahead for your goal
Here I go, now you know
Why I’m leaving
Got the blues, what can I lose
Goodbye
All day long before my eyes come little visions of you,
They shouldn’t, they mustn’t, but they do.
Can’t get out of this mood,
Can’t get over this feeling,
Can’t get out of this mood
Last night your lips were appealing,
The thrill should have been all gone by today, in the usual way,
But it’s only your arms that I’m out of.
Can’t get out of this dream
What a fool to dream of you,
Twasn’t part of my scheme to sigh and tell you that I love you,
But now I’m saying it, I’m playing it dumb,
Can’t get out of this mood,
Heartbreak here I come.
I can’t get over this feeling,
Last night your lips were appealing,
The thrill should have been all gone by today, in the usual way,
But it’s only your arms that I’m out of.
What a fool to dream of you,
To sigh and tell you that I love you,
But now I’m playing it, now I’m playing it dumb,
I can’t get out of this mood,
Heartbreak, heartbreak here I come.
Children go where I send you
How shall I send you?
I’m gonna send you one by one
One for the little biddy baby, was born, born, born in Bethlehem
Children go where I send you
How shall I send you?
I’m gonna send you two by two
Two for Paul and Silas
One for the little biddy baby, was born, born, born in Bethlehem
Children go where I send you
How shall I send you?
I’m gonna send you four by four
Four for the poor that stood at the door
Three for the Hebrew children
Two for Paul and Silas
One for the little biddy baby, was born, born, born in Bethlehem
Children go where I send you
How shall I send you?
I’m gonna send you six by six
Six for the six that couldn’t get fixed
Five for the gospel preacher
Four for the poor that stood at the door
Three for the Hebrew children
Two for Paul and Silas
One for the little biddy baby, was born, born, born in Bethlehem
Children go where I send you
How shall I send you?
I’m gonna send you eight by eight
Eight for the eight that stood at the gate
Seven for the seven came down from heaven
Six for the six that couldn’t get fixed
Five for the gospel preacher
Four for the poor that stood at the door
Three for the Hebrew children
Two for Paul and Silas
One for the little biddy baby, one for the little biddy baby
One for the little biddy baby. He was born, born
He was born in Bethlehem
Well I’m going where the chilly winds don’t blow
Oh lord, going where the chilly winds don’t blow
I’m going where chilly winds don’t blow, baby
Where the chilly winds they don’t blow, oh yeah
There will be red roses round my door, honey baby
There will be red roses round my door
I’m going there, ’cause there they’ll welcome me for sure, baby
Where the chilly winds they don’t blow
I’m going where my daddy’s waiting for me, oh
Baby, I’m going where my daddy’s waiting for me
I’m going where, for there I’d rather be, my baby
Where the chilly winds they don’t blow
Oh lord
Baby
Oh baby, where the chilly winds they don’t blow
Yes
Alright
Where the chilly winds, yeah, yeah
Where the chilly winds they don’t blow
And my old wedding ring
With these few goodbye words
How can I sing?
I’m packing you in like I said
Take care of everything
I’m leaving my wedding ring
I’ll get ahead
Remember darling
Don’t smoke in bed
Don’t smoke in bed
‘Cause I’ll get ahead
Remember darling
Don’t smoke in bed
For all we know
We may never meet again
Before we go
Make this moment live again
We won’t say goodbye
Until the last minute
I’ll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it
For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples, like the ripples in the stream
So baby, love me, love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Oh, but tomorrow
But tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
Yes, tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
He doesn’t know it, but he needs me
And so no matter where he goes
Though he doesn’t care
He knows that I’m here
I ought to leave him, but he needs me
I know that I ain’t very bright
Just to tag along
Oh, but right or wrong
I’m his and I’m here
And I’m gonna be his friends or his lover
To wake him and make him discover
That he needs me
Ive got to follow where he leads me
Or else hell never know that I need him
Just as he needs me
Don’t let him take me
Don’t let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
And Ill be glad
Don’t let him take me
Don’t let him handle me
With his hot hands
If you can keep me
I wants to stay here with you forever
I’ve got my man
Don’t let him take me
Don’t let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
I’ve got my man
He’s going to handle me and hold me close
So, it going to be like dying, Porgy
When he calls me
But when he comes I know I’ll have to go
Don’t let him take me
Honey, don’t let him handle me
And drive me mad
If you can keep me
I wanna stay here with you forever
I’ve got my man
The things I used to like, I don’t like any more
I want a lot of other things I’ve never had before
It’s just like my mamma says, I sit around and mourn
Pretending that I am so wonderful and knowing I’m adored
I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm
I’m as jumpy as a puppet on a string
I’d say that I had spring fever
But I know it isn’t spring
I’m as starry eyed and gravely discontented
Like a nightingale without a song to sing
Oh, why should I have spring fever
When it isn’t even spring?
I keep wishing I were somewhere else
Walking down a strange new street
Hearing words I have never never heard
From a man I’ve yet to meet
I’m as busy as a spider spinning daydreams
I’m as giddy as a baby on a swing
I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud
Or a robin or a bluebird on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way
That it might as well be spring
It might as well be, might as well be
It might as well be spring
What can you do?
Old girl, you’re through
Sit there, count your little fingers
Unhappy little girl blue
Falling on you
It’s time, you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
Count the little raindrops
Falling on you
‘Cause it’s time, you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
You might as well surrender
‘Cause your hopes are getting slender and slender
Why won’t somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer up little girl blue
You won’t believe me but I love you only
I’d rather be lonely than happy with somebody else
Night time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else
I intended to be independently blue
Have it today to give back tomorrow
Your love is my love
There’s no love for nobody else
You won’t believe me but I love you only
I’d rather be lonely than happy with somebody else
Night time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else
I intended to be independently blue
Have it today to give back tomorrow
Your love is my love
My love is your love
There’s no love for nobody else
You ain’t never been blue,
Till you’ve had that mood indigo.
That feelin’ goes stealin’ down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh, “Go ‘long blues”.
Since my baby said goodbye.
And in the evenin’ when the lights are low,
I’m so lonely I could cry.
‘Cause there’s nobody who cares about me,
I’m just a poor fool that’s bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.
You ain’t never been blue,
Till you’ve had that mood indigo.
That feelin’ goes stealin’ down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh, “Go ‘long blues”.
My baby don’t care for clothes
My baby just cares for me
My baby don’t care for cars and races
My baby don’t care for high-tone places
And even Lana Turner’s smile
Is somethin’ he can’t see
My baby don’t care who knows
My baby just cares for me
And he don’t even care for clothes
He cares for me
My baby don’t care
For cars and races
Baby don’t care for
He don’t care for high-tone places
And even Liberace’s smile
Is something he can’t see
Is something he can’t see
I wonder what’s wrong with baby
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for me
It was where everyone could see
He belong to someone, but not me
It was one that I knew too well
In my heart it will never be spring
Long as he wears a plain golden ring
I know, why I will never be free
I can’t stop these teardrops of mine
So I’m gonna love him ’til the end of time
I’ll remember ’til my dyin’ day
In my heart it will never be spring
Plain gold ring on his finger he wore
Plain gold ring on his finger he wore
Since you’ve gone I spend each lonely night,
Dealing out the cards from left to right,
And the King of Hearts is there to remind me
That I’m all alone playing solitaire.
Love was just another game for two,
I see now that’s all it meant to you,
And my heart got lost somewhere in the shuffle,
So I’m all alone playing solitaire
In each romance there’s an element of chance,
A gamble to win or to lose,
You play to win, then you find you’re playing in a game with no rules,
Just made for fools.
Now, the Joker has a laugh on me,
‘Cause I played my hand so carelessly,
And until you wanna share that old feeling,
I’ll be dealing time away with solitaire.
And until you want to share that old feeling,
I’ll be dealing time away, dealing time away with solitaire.
Savoy, the home of sweet romance
Savoy, it wins you at a glance
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance
Your old form just like a clinging vine
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine
How my heart is singing
While the band is swinging
I’m never tired of romping
And stomping with you at the Savoy
What joy, a perfect holiday
Savoy, where we can glide and sway
Savoy, let me stomp away with you
The home of sweet romance
It wins you at a glance
Gives happy feet a chance to dance, dance
Just like a clinging vine
So soft and sweet as wine
So soft and close to mine, divine
How my heart is singing
While the band is swinging
I’m never, never, never tired of romping
And stomping with you at the Savoy
What joy, a perfect holiday
Savoy, where we can glide and sway
Savoy, let me stomp away
With you
I see your face in this room full of faces,
I’m trying hard not to stare,
Strange to see you again, here of all places,
That’s him over there.
My baby looks the same as he did when I met him,
I’d know that laugh anywhere,
It was foolish of me to think I’d forget him,
That’s him over there.
I wish I could be the girl at his side,
The one who has taken my place,
Can everyone see what I’m trying to hide,
Isn’t it written all over my face?
I guess that you know what extremes I have gone to,
To prove that I didn’t care,
You were so anxious to meet the dream I’ve hung onto,
Well, that’s him, that’s my Jim, over there.
Only the lonely love, only the sad of soul,
Wake and begin their day in the middle of the night,
To breakfast on their pride, burnt joys and tears just dried
To breakfast with the moon in the middle of the night.
Then to count once more my miserly store of your kisses
In this darkness restored,
To grasp your absent grace in desperate embrace,
To make your false heart true, in the middle of the night oh oh oh
Then to count once more my miserly store of your kisses
In this darkness restored,
To grasp your absent grace in desperate embrace,
To make your false heart true, in the middle of the night.
Oh she was a the fairest in Trinidad
And he was a wandering sailor lad
But she stole his heart as no other had
Tomorrow, tomorrow we will meet once more
In the old village square
So wait for me darlin’ and I’ll be there
The moon was so young and their hearts were gay
I’m yours for ever he heard her say
But she knew in her heart that he could not stay
Tomorrow, tomorrow we will meet once more
In the old village square
So wait for me darlin’ and I’ll be there
Now her heart is sad as he sails the sea
And I heard her sigh, Oh come back to me
And the wind in the waves whispered mournfully
Tomorrow, tomorrow we will meet once more
In the old village square
So wait for me darlin’ and I’ll be there.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid
Of the dark
There’s a golden sky
And the sweet silver song
Of a lark
Walk on, through the rain
For your dreams be tossed and blown
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
You’ve been gone too long
You’ve been gone much too long
Baby I’m telling you, you’ve been gone too long
Now I’ve got a guy loves to stay home at night
He really knows how to treat me right
You’ve been gone too long, you’ve been gone too long
Baby I’m telling you, you’ve been gone too long
Now, you went out with Ruth, well you know that’s the truth
You went out with Flo, and she ain’t so slow
Oh, you’ve been gone too long, you’ve been gone too long
Baby I’m telling you, you’ve been gone too long
Now let me tell you baby, don’t you push me around
Just you do yourself a favor and get out of town
You’ve been gone too long, yes, you’ve been gone too long
Baby I’m telling you, you’ve been gone too long
You’ve been gone too long, you’ve been gone much too long
Willow weep for me, willow weep for me
Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea
Listen to my plea, listen willow weep for me
Gone my lover’s dream, lovely summer dream
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream
Sad as I can be – Hear me willow and weep for me
Whisper to the wind to say that love has sinned
To leave my heart aching and making this moan
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light
So none will find me sighing and crying all alone
Weeping willow tree, weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, bend oh willow and weep for me
To leave my heart aching and making this moan
So none will find me sighing and crying all alone
Weeping willow tree, weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, bend oh willow
Bend oh willow and weep for me