Andy Razaf

Fats Waller

Harry Brooks

Memories/Nostalgia

Dreams

Love

Time

Jazz

1956

No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you

I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's just you I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you

Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for
Believe me

I don't stay out late
No place to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' all my love for you

Buddy DeSylva

Louis Silvers

Weather

Country/Nature

Time

Jazz

1956

[Original]

Life is not a highway strewn with flowers
Still it holds a goodly share of bliss
When the sun gives way to April showers
Here's the point you should never miss

Though April showers
May come your way
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May
So if it's raining
Have no regrets
Because, it isn't raining rain, you know
It's raining violets
And when you see clouds
Upon the hill
You soon will see crowds
Of daffodils
So keep on looking, for a bluebird
And listening for his song
Whenever April showers come along

And when you see clouds
Upon the hill
You soon will see crowds
Of daffodils
So keep on looking, for a bluebird
And listening for his song
Whenever April showers come along

Jack Palmer

Spencer Williams

Baby/Children

Names

Love

Places

Jazz

1956

Yeah, everybody loves my baby
But my baby don`t love nobody but me, nobody but me
Oh, everybody wants my baby
But my baby don`t want nobody but me, that`s plain to see

Yes, she got a foam like Venus
Honest, I ain`t talking Greek
No one can come between us
She`s my Sheba, I am her Sheik

Yes, everybody loves my baby
But my baby, nobody but me, yeah, nobody but me

Jimmy Campbell

Ray Noble

Reginald Connelly

Dreams

Love

Time

Pop

1931

Good night, sweetheart, till we meet tomorrow.
Good night, sweetheart, sleep will banish sorrow.

Tears and parting may make us forlorn,
But with the dawn, a new day is born.

So I'll say good night, sweetheart, though I'm not beside you,
Good night, sweetheart, still me love will guide you,

Dreams enfold you in each one I'll hold you.
Good night, sweetheart, good night.

Billy Rose

Harry Warren

Mort Dixon

Body

Weather

Time

Numbers

Money

Easy Listening

Vintage

1931

It was a lucky April shower
It was the most convenient door
I found a million dollar baby
In a five and ten cent store.
The rain continued for an hour.
I hung around for three or four.
Around a million dollar baby
In a five and ten cent store.

She was selling china
And when she made those eyes,
I kept buying china
Until the crowd got wise.

Incidently
If you should run into a shower,
Just step inside my cottage door,
And meet the million dollar baby
From the five and ten cent store.

Love comes along like a popular song
Any time or anywhere at all.
Rain or sunshine
Spring or fall.
Say, you'll never know when it may say hello
In a very unexpected place.
For example, take my case.

(Bing scats.)

She was selling china
And when she made those eyes
I kept buying china
until the crowd got wise.

Incidently
If you should run into a shower
Oh, step inside my cottage door
And meet my million dollar baby
From the five and ten cent store.

Irving Kahal

Sammy Fain

Memories/Nostalgia

Weather

Places

Time

Pop

1944

I'll be seeing you;
In all the old, familiar places;
That this heart of mine embraces;
All day through.

In that small cafe;
The park across the way;
The children's carousel;
The chestnut tree;
The wishing well.

I'll be seeing you;
In every lovely, summer's day;
And everything that's bright and gay;
I'll always think of you that way;
I'll find you in the morning sun;
And when the night is new;
I'll be looking at the moon;
But I'll be seeing you.

Harold Arlen

Ted Koehler

Happiness

Love

Weather

Colours

Jazz

0

Merry month of may, sunny skies of blue,
clouds have rolled away and the sun peeps through,
May express happiness, joy you may define in a thousand ways,
but a case like mine needs a "special phrase"
to reveal how I feel.

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow,
Got the string around my finger,,
What a world, what a life, I'm in love!
I've got a song that I sing,

I can make the rain go, anytime I move my finger,
Lucky me, can't you see, I'm in love,
Life is a beautiful thing, as long as I hold the string,
I'd be a silly so and so, if I should ever let go,

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow,
Got the string around my finger,
What a world, what a life, I'm in love.

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow,
Got the string around my finger,,
What a world, what a life, I'm in love!
I've got a song that I sing,

I can make the rain go, anytime I move my finger,
Lucky me, can't you see, I'm in love,
Life is a beautiful thing, as long as I hold the string,
I'd be a silly so and so, if I should ever let go,

I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow,
Got the string around my finger,
What a world, what a life, I'm in love.

Buddy DeSylva

Lew Brown

Ray Henderson

If I had a talking picture of you,
I would run it every time I felt blue.
I would sit there in the gloom of my lonely little room
And applaud each time you whispered, "I love you; love you."

On the screen the moment you came in view
We would talk the whole thing over, we two.
I would give ten shows a day,
and a midnight matinee,
If I had a talking picture of you.

Andy Razaf

Fats Waller

Keeping out of mischief now.
I really am in love and how.
I'm through playin with fire.
It's you whom I desire.
All the world can plainly see.
You're the only one for me.
I have told them in advance.
They can't break up our romance.
Livin up to all my vows.
'Cause I'm keepin out of mischief now.
Out of mischief now.
I am in love and how.
I'm through playin with fire.
It's you whom I desire.
All the world can see.
You're the one for me.
I have told them in advance.
They can not break up our romance.
I'm livin up to all my vows.
'Cause I'm keepin' out of mischief now.

Herman Hupfeld

No more company to feed
No more papers left to read
What's to do about it
Let's put out the lights and go to sleep

No more anything to drink
Leave those dishes in the sink
What's to do about it
Simply nighty-night and go to sleep

You're waiting now for me to say
I love you more and more and more dear
You're looking younger every day
You never were so sweet before dear

No more money in the bank
No cute baby we can spank
What's to do about it
Let's put out the lights and go to sleep

You're waiting now for me to say
I love you more and more and more dear
You're looking younger every day
You never were so sweet before dear

No more money in the bank
No cute baby we can spank
What's to do about it
Let's put out the lights
And go to sleep

Lew Brown

Ray Henderson

Food and Drink

Inspirational

Country/Nature

Money

Jazz

1935

People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about
Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way?
Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out
We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday

Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
You work, you save, you worry so
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go

So keep repeating it's the berries
The strongest oak must fall
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all

Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
At eight each morning I have got a date
To take my plunge 'round the Empire State
You'll admit it's not the berries
In a building that's so tall
There's a guy in the show, the girls love to kiss
Get thousands a week just for crooning like this
Life is just a bowl of . . . aw, nuts!
So live and laugh at it all!

Ray Noble

Love is the sweetest thing
What else on earth could ever bring
Such happiness to ev'rything
As Love's old story.

Love is the strangest thing
No song of birds upon the wing
Shall in our hearts more sweetly sing
Than Love's old story.

Whatever heart may desire
Whatever fate may send
This is the tale that never will tire.
This is the song without end.

Love is the greatest thing
The oldest yet, the latest thing
I only hope that fate may bring
Love's story to you.

Benny Davis

Con Conrad

J Russel Robinson

My little Margie

I'm always thinking of you

Margie, I'll tell the

World I love you



Don't forget your promise to me

I have bought a home and ring

And everything for



Margie

You've been my inspiration

Days are never blue

After all is said and done

There is really only one

Oh, Margie, Margie, it's you



Margie

I'm always thinking of you

Margie, I'll tell the

World I love you



Don't forget your promise to me

I have bought a home and ring

And everything for



Margie

You've been my inspiration

Days are never blue

After all is said and done

There is really only one

Oh, Margie, Margie, it's you

Ballard MacDonald

Buddy DeSylva

George Gershwin

Dreams

Love

Jazz

Vintage

1939

[Original]

When this world began
It was Heaven's plan
There should be a girl for every single man

To my great regret
Someone has upset
Heaven's pretty progamme for we've never met.
I'm clutching at straws, just because
I may meet him/her yet

Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who he/she can be
Somebody loves me, I wish I knew
Who can he/she be worries me
For every boy/girl who passes me I shout,
"Hey, maybe you were meant to be my loving baby."
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
Maybe it's you

[Instrumental]

Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who he/she can be
Somebody loves me, I wish I knew
Who can he/she be worries me
For every boy/girl who passes me I shout,
"Hey, maybe you were meant to be my loving baby."
Somebody loves me, I wonder who
Maybe it's you

Sam Lewis

Victor Young

Love laughs at a king
Kings dont mean a thing
On the street of dreams

Dreams broken in two
Can be made like new
On the street of dreams

Gold, silver and gold
All you can hold
Is up there on a moonbeam
Poor, there aint nobody poor
As long as love is sure
On the street of dreams

Charles Daniels

Gus Arnheim

Harry Tobias

Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in May
Sweet and lovely
Heaven must have sent her my way.
Skies above me
Never were as blue as her eyes;
And she loves me
Who would want a sweeter surprise?
When she nestles in my arms so tenderly
There's a thrill that words cannot express.
In my heart a song of love is taunting me
Melody haunting me.
Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in May
And she loves me
There is nothing more I can say

Ben Bernie

Kenneth Casey

Maceo Pinkard

Names

Clothing/Apparel

Money

Love

Places

Colours

Easy Listening

1932

She just got here yesterday,
Things are hot here now they say,
There's a new gal in town.
Gals are jealous, there's no doubt.
All the guys just rave about
Sweet, Sweet Georgia Brown.
And ever since she came, the common folks all claim, say;

Chorus:

No gal made has got a shade on Sweet Georgia Brown.
Two left feet, but oh, so neat has Sweet Georgia Brown.
They all sigh and wanna die for Sweet Georgia Brown,
I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie (not much!).
It's been said she knocks 'em dead when she lands in town.
Since she came why it's a shame how she's cooled 'em down.
Fellas that she can't get must be fellas that she ain't met.
Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her, Sweet Georgia Brown.

All you gals will get the blues,
all you pals will surely lose.
And, there's but one excuse.
Now I've told you who she was,
and I've told you what she does,
Still, give this gal her dues.
This pretty maiden's prayer is answered anywhere

Chorus:

No gal made has got a shade on Sweet Georgia Brown.
Two left feet, but oh, so neat has Sweet Georgia Brown.
They all sigh and wanna die for Sweet Georgia Brown,
I'll tell you just why, you know I don't lie (not much!).
All those tips the porter slips to Sweet Georgia Brown
They buy clothes at fashion shows for one dollar down.
Fellas, won'tcha tip your hats. Oh boy, ain't she the cats?
Who's that mister, tain't her sister, It's Sweet Georgia Brown

Buddy DeSylva

Lew Brown

Ray Henderson

Happiness

Country/Nature

Jazz

1975

The moon belongs to everyone
The best things in life are free
The stars belong to everyone
They gleam there for you and me

The flowers in spring
The robins that sing
The sunbeams that shine
They're yours, they're mine

And love can come to everyone
The best things in life are free