Pack up your troubles and just get happyYa better chase all your cares awaySing Hallelujah, c’mon get happyGet ready for the judgment day The sun is shinin’, c’mon get happyThe Lord is waiting to take your handShout Hallelujah, c’mon get happyWe’re goin’ to the Promised Land We’re headin’ ‘cross the riverGonna wash our sins in […]
Wildcat Kelley, lookin’ mighty pale,Was standin’ by the sherrif’s sideAnd when the sherrif said "I’m sendin you to jail,Wildcat raised his head and cried Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,Don’t fence me in.Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,Don’t fence me in.Let me be by myself […]
Drop me off in Harlem,any place in Harlem,There’s someone waiting therewho makes it seem likeHeaven up in Harlem. I don’t want your Dixie,you can keep your Dixie,there’s no one down in Dixie who can take me‘way from my hot Harlem, Harlem has those southern skies,they’re in my baby’s smile, Iidolize my baby’s eyes andclassy up-town […]
Goodnight my love, the tired old moon is descending,Goodnight my love, my moment with you now is ending.It was so heavenly, holding you close to me,It will be heavenly to hold you again in a dream,The stars above have promised to meet us tomorrow,Til then, my love, how dreary the new day will seem,So for […]
VERSE 1Don’t stamp your foot at me,It’s impoliteTo stamp your foot at meIs not quite right.At man’s ingratitudeA woman winks,But such an attitude just stinks. REFRAIN 1I have eyes for you to give you dirty looks.I have words that do not come from children’s booksthere’s a trick with a knife I’m learning to doAnd ev’rything […]
Do I love you do I?Doesn’t one and one make two?Do I love you do I?Does July need a sky of blue?Would I miss you, would I, if you ever should go away?If the sun should desert the day, what would life be?Will I leave you, never?Could the ocean leave the shore?Will I worship you […]
Old Peter Minuet had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of ManhattenFor twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and StatenPete thought that he had the best of the bargin but the poor red man just grinned,And he grunted "ugh!" meaning okay in his jargon for he […]
A fine romance, with no kissesA fine romance, my friend this isWe should be like a couple of hot tomatoesBut you’re as cold as yesterday’s mashed potatoesA fine romance, you won’t nestleA fine romance, you won’t wrestleI might as well play bridgeWith my old maid auntI haven’t got a chanceThis is a fine romance A […]
[Ella]April skies are in your eyesBut darling, don’t be blue Don’t cry,Oh honey pleaseDon’t be that way Clouds in the skyShould never make you feel that way The rainWill bring the violets of MayTears are in vain So honey please don’t be that way As long as weSee it throughYou’ll have meI’ll have you SweetheartTomorrow […]
Day in – day out That same old voodoo follows me aboutThat same old pounding in my heart, whenever I think of youAnd baby I think of you Day in and day outDay out – day in I needn’t tell you how my days beginWhen I awake I get up with a tingleOne possibility in […]