Get in touch with that sundown fellowAs he tiptoes across the sandHe’s got a million kinds of stardustPick your fav’rite brand, and Dream, when you’re feeling blueDream, that’s the thing to doJust watch the smoke rings rise in the airYou’ll find your share of memories there So dream when the day is throughDream, and they […]
Tag Archives: Lyrics by Ella Fitzgerald
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She’s gone where the goblins go,Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells […]
Easy To Love
I know too well that I’m just wasting precious timeIn thinking such a thing could beThat you could ever care for meI’m sure you hate to hearThat I adore you, dearBut grant meJust the sameI’m not entirely to blameFor loveYou’d be so easy to loveSo easy to idolizeAll others aboveSo worth the yearning forSo swell […]
Cry Me A River
now you say you’re lonelyyou cried the whole night throughwell, you can cry me a rivercry me a riveri cried a river over you now you say you’re sorryfor being so untruewell, you can cry me a rivercry me a riveri cried a river over you you drove menearly drove me out off my headwhile […]
Change Partners
Must you dance every dance with the same fortunate man?You have danced with him since the music began.Won’t you change partners and dance with me?Must you dance quite so close with your lips touching his face?Can’t you seeI’m longing to be in his place?Won’t you change partners and dance with me? Ask him to sit […]
Early Autumn
When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breezeand touches with her hand the summer trees,perhaps you’ll understand what memories I own.There’s a dance pavilion in the rain all shuttered down,a winding country lane all russet brown,a frosty window pane shows me a town grown lonely.That spring of ours that started so April-hearted,seemed […]
Dancing On The Ceiling (He Dances On My Ceiling)
The world is lyricalBecause a miracleHas brought my lover to meThough she’s some other place, her face I seeAt night I creep in bedAnd never sleep in bedBut look above in the airAnd to my greatest joy, my love is thereShe dances overheadOn the ceiling near my bedIn my sightAll through the nightI try to […]
Cotton Tail
(scat)Come on, WailWail, Cotton TailBenny Webster, come on and blow for me (scat)That’s Cotton Tail