Swinging on a Star

[crappie master]

SWINGING ON A STAR


Would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule

A mule is an animal with long funny ears
Kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny but his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule

Or would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a pig

A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He's fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig

Or would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a fish

A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook
He can't write his name or read a book
To fool the people is his only thought
And though he's slippery, he still gets caught
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish
A new kind of jumped-up slippery fish

And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So you see it's all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin' on a star

 

[crappie master]

Moonlight in Vermont

Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves, a sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont

Icy finger-waves
Ski trails on a mountainside
Snowlight in Vermont

Telegraph cables, they sing down the highway
And travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely...

Ev'ning summer breeze
Warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont

 

[crappie master]

They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Written by: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The mem’ry of all that
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing on key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always always
Keep the mem’ry of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced til three
The way you’ve changed my life
No, no, they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

[crappie master]

Stormy Weather

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all of the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around,
Heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around
And I'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down
Blinding every hope I had
This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad

Love, love, love, love
This misery will be the end of me

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time
Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all of the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around,
Heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around
And I'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down
Blinding every hope I had
This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad

Love, love, love, love
This misery will be the end of me

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time

 

[crappie master]

All of Me



All of me
Why not take all of me
Can't you see
I'm no good without you
Take my lips
I want to lose them
Take my arms
I'll never use them
Your goodbye
Left me with eyes that cried
How can I
Go on dear without you
You took the part that once was my heart
So why not take all of me

Left me with eyes that cried
Go on dear without you
You took the part that once was my heart
So why not take all of me

 

[crappie master]

I'm in a big band mood.

 

[crappie master]

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
(Gershwin)

There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still we're often told "seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet
She's the big affair I cannot forget
Only girl I ever think of will regret


I'd like to add her initial to my monogram
Tell me where's the shepherd for this lost lamb

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me

Although she may not the girl some men think of
As handsome to my heart
She carries the key

Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me

 

[Agent99]

crappie

You have excellent taste. Since you already posted 2 of my favorite Gershwin songs, I have a few more to add - along with Porter and R&H. Heck, if I am gonna get busted for printing copyrighted material, it might as well be for some classy lyrics.

ISN'T IT ROMANTIC (Lorenz Hart Richard Rodgers)

Isn't it romantic?
Music in the night, a dream that can be heard.
Isn't it romantic?
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word.
I hear the breezes playing in the trees above
While all the world is saying you were meant for love.

Isn't it romantic?
Merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn't it romantic?
Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss.

Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
Do you mean that I will fall in love perchance?
Isn't it romance?
Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
Do you mean that I will fall in love perchance?
Isn't it romantic?
Isn't it romance?

 

[Agent99]

I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU (George and Ira Gershwin)

How glad the many millions of Timothys and Williams
Would be to capture me
But you had such persistence,you wore down my resistance
I fell, and it was swell

You're my big and brave and handsome Romeo
How I won you, I shall never, never know
It's not that you're attractive but, oh, my heart grew active
When you came into view

I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time, hear me sigh
I never had the least notion
That I could fall with so much emotion

Could you coo?
Could you care?
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon my mush
'Cause I've got a crush, my baby, on you

Could you coo?
Could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon my mush'
Cause I've got a crush, my baby, on you
Yes, I've got a crush, my baby, on you

 

[Agent99]

THE MAN I LOVE (George and Ira Gershwin)

Someday he'll come along, the man I love
And he'll be big and strong, the man I love
And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay

He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand
And in a little while he'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word

Maybe I shall meet him Sunday
Maybe Monday, maybe not
Still I'm sure to meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day

He'll build a little home, just meant for two
From which we'll never roam;
Who would, would you?
And so all else above I'm waiting for the man I love

 

[UnseenChagrin]

*applauds* You have excellent taste in music.

 

[Agent99]

OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY (George and Ira Gershwin)

The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend.
The world and all it's capers and how it all will end.
Nothing seems to be lasting, but that isn't our affair.
We've got something permanent,
I mean in the way we care.

It's very clear our love is here to stay.
Not for a year, but ever and a day.
The radio and the telephone.
And the movies that we know.
May just be passing fancies and in time may go.

But, oh my dear, our love is here to stay.
Together were going a long, long way.
In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble, they're only made of clay.
But our love is here to stay.

 

[Agent99]

NIGHT AND DAY (Cole Porter)

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It's no matter darling where you are
I think of you

Day and night, night and day, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Day and night night and day

Under the hide of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day

 

[sweet soft kiss]

hope you don't mind... I love the standards



My Funny Valentine


My funny Valentine, sweet comic Valentine,
You make me smile with my heart,
Your looks are laughable, un-photographical,
Yet you're my favourite work of art . . .

Is your figure less than Greek ?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, are you smiling?
But don't change a hair for me,
Not if you care for me.
Stay little valentine, stay!
Each day is Valentine's Day . . .

Each day is Valentine's Day . . .

 

[just pet]

Delicious

"Sentimental Journey"
Writer(s): Brown/Homer/Green


Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

I got my bag, I got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
I long to hear that: "All aboard!"

Seven, that's the time we leave - at seven
I'll be waiting up for heaven
Counting every mile of railroad track - that moves me back

I never though my heart could be so yearny
Why did I decide to roam
Gotta take a sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home

 

[eagleyez]

god i hate it when my box is full...

you know what I mean?

chalk full.....

 

[sweet soft kiss]

god i hate it when my box is full...

you know what I mean?

chalk full.....

Braggart...



Pennies From Heaven

Every time it rains
It rains
Pennies from heaven
Don't you know
Each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find your fortune fallin'
All over town
Be sure that your umbrella
Is upside down.

Trade them for a package of
Sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love
You must have showers
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven
For you and me.

 

[just pet]

god i hate it when my box is full...

you know what I mean?

chalk full.....

Point taken

"Three Coins in the Fountain"
Writer(s): Styne/Chan


Three coins in a fountain
Each one seeking happiness
Thrown by three hopeful lovers
Which one will the fountain bless

Three hearts it a fountain
Each heart longing for its home
There they lie in the fountain
Somewhere in the heart of Rome

Which one will the fountain bless
Which one will the fountain bless

Three coins in a fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
Just one wish will be granted
One heart will wear a Valentine

Make it mine, make it mine, make it mine

 

[sweet soft kiss]

last one...

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

I'm wild again, beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am i...
Could not sleep, would not sleep
Till love came and told me i should not sleep
Bothered and bewildered am i...
Lost my heart, so what of it?
He was cold, i agree,
He can laugh and i love it
Although the laugh's on me;
I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And long for the day when i'll cling to him,
Bewitched, bothered so bewildered am i...

 

[just pet]

nice note to leave on

I've Got You Under My Skin

I've got you under my skin
I have got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart, you're really a part of me
And I've got you under my skin

I have tried so, not to give in
I've said to myself this affair it never would go so well
But why should I try to resist when I know so well
That I've got you under my skin

I would sacrifice anything come would might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice, that comes in the night and repeats in my ear
Don't you know you fool you never can win
Use your mentality, wake up to reality
For each time I do, just the thought of you makes me stop before I begin
Because I've got you under my skin

 

[QuickDuck]

Everytime i hear Swinging On A Star, i think of Hudson Hawk

Still a great scene with a great song

 

[crappie master]

Here is one my favorites.

Stardust

(Carmichael-Parish)


And now the purple dust of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
Now the little stars, the little stars pine
Always reminding me that we're apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a love that cannot die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by.

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
That melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
Ah, but that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
Where stars are bright
You are in my arms
That nightingale tells its fairy tale
of paradise where roses grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
my stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain.

Ah, but that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
Where stars are bright
You are in my arms
That nightingale tells its fairy tale
of paradise where roses grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
my stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain.

 

[crappie master]

Don't Get Around Much Anymore


Missed the Saturday dance....heard they crowded the floor
I couldn't bear it without you
Don't get around much anymore

Went to visit the club....I got as far as the door
They'd've asked me about you
Don't get around much anymore

Well darling, I guess my mind's more at ease
But never the less, why stir up memories

I've been invited on dates......should have gone but what for
It's awfully different without you
Don't get around much anymore

 

[Xstatic]

Everytime i hear Swinging On A Star, i think of Hudson Hawk

Still a great scene with a great song

Glad to know I'm not the only one

Then there was 'Side By Side', too

 

[District Line]

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern)

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied
"Something here inside
Cannot be denied"

They said someday you'll find
All who love are blind
When your heart's on fire
You don't realise
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed and I gaily laughed
To think they would doubt my love
Yet today, my love has flown away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say
"When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes."



P.S. I like that 'Night & Day' by Cole Porter as well.