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Why Try to Change Me Now
03:18
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I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain
I've got some habits even I can't explain
Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain
But why try to change me now?
I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor
I go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
But why try to change me now?
Why can't I be more conventional?
People talk, people stare, so I try
But that's not for me, 'cause I can't see
My kind of crazy world go passing me by
So let people wonder, let them laugh, let them frown
You know I'll love you 'til the moon's upside-down
Don't you remember I was always your clown?
So why try to change me now?
Cy Coleman, Joe McCarthy
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Please let me say from the start
I don't pretend to be smart
I just suggest what I think the best
Having your interest at heart
I only want what's the best thing for you
And the best thing for you would be me
I've been convinced after thinking it through
That the best thing for you would be me
Ev'ry day
To myself I say
Point the way
What will it be
I ask myself what's the best thing for you
And myself and I seem to agree
That the best thing for you would be me
Irving Berlin
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Blame It On My Youth
04:18
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You were my adored one
Then you became the bored one
And I was like a toy that brought you joy one day
A broken toy that you preferred to throw away
If I expected love when first we kissed
Blame it on my youth
If only just for you I did exist
Blame it on my youth
I believed in everything
Like a child of three
You meant more than anything
All the world to me.
If you were on my mind all night and day
Blame it on my youth
If I forgot to eat and sleep and pray
Blame it on my youth
If I cried a little bit
When first I learned the truth
Don't blame it on my heart
Blame it on my youth.
Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman
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Several people of my acquaintance
Seem very concerned about you and me
They're trying to be nice
They're going out of their way
They offer me advice
There must be something in what they say
My very good friend the milkman says
That I've been losing too much sleep
He doesn't like the hours I keep
And he suggests that you should marry me
My very good friend the mailman says
That it would make his burden less
If we both had the same address
And he suggests that you should marry me.
And there's a very friendly fellow who prints
All the latest real estate news
And every day he sends me blueprints
Of cottages with country views
My very good friends the neighbors say
They've been watching little things I do
And they believe that I love you
So I suggest that you should marry me
Johnny Burke, Harold Spina
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Like I Used to Do
04:55
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There was a time when we'd be the last to leave
Watching the sun come up while everyone fell asleep
The music was always loud and I'd smoke and drink too much
Until I'd fall in your arms and into your loving touch
Now as the years roll by, time has reeled me in
I've slowed down a notch or two from the way things were then
And those old ways of mine, I've left them behind
Those crazy days are through
The only thing I still do like I used to do
Is carry this torch for you
Remember the days when we'd pack our bags and run
Chasing some crazy dream into the morning sun
Now as the twilight falls, I find I'm satisfied
Watching the fire glow just as long as you're by my side
Here in my heart it seems, time has passed me by
But I love you as much today as the very first time
And those old ways of mine, I've left them behind
Those crazy days are through
The only thing I still do like I used to do
Is carry this torch for you
I still want you the way I wanted you then
If I could do it all over, I'd do it all over again
And those old ways of mine, I've left them behind
Those crazy days are through
The only thing I still do like I used to do
Is carry this torch for you
Tim O'Brien, Patrick Alger
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Blah, Blah, Blah
02:37
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I've written you a song
A beautiful routine
(I hope you like it)
My technique can't be wrong
I learned it from the screen.
(I hope you like it)
I've studied all the rhymes that all the lovers sing
Then just for you I wrote this little thing
Blah, blah, blah, blah, moon
Blah, blah, blah, above
Blah, blah, blah, blah, croon
Blah, blah, blah, blah, love.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la, merry month of May
Tra la la la, tra la la la la, 'neath the clouds of gray
Blah, blah, blah, your hair
Blah, blah, blah, your eyes
Blah, blah, blah, blah, care,
Blah, blah, blah, blah, skies
Tra la la la, tra la la la la, cottage for two
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, darling, with you
George and Ira Gershwin
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Poor You
02:54
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I'm sad for anybody walking about
Who's missed all the thrills I've been through
I'm sad for anybody who hasn't found out
Just what your caresses can do
And that's why I'm especially sad for you
Poor you
I'm sorry you're not me
Because you'll never know
What loving you can be
Poor you
You'll never know your charms
You'll never feel your warmth
You're never in your arms
When it is you I'm kissing
I pity you constantly
You don't know what you're missing
`Cause you're only kissing poor me
Poor you
You'll live your whole life through
And yet you'll never know
The thrill of loving you.
E. Y. Harburg, Burton Lane
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Everything Happens to Me
03:21
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I make a date for golf, and you can bet your life it rains
I try to give a party, and the guy upstairs complains
I guess I'll go through life, just catching colds and missing trains
Everything happens to me
I never miss a thing, I've had the measles and the mumps
And every time I play an ace, my partner always trumps
Guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps
Everything happens to me
At first my heart thought you could break this jinx for me
That love would turn the trick to end despair
But now I just can't fool this head that thinks for me
I've mortgaged all my castles in the air
I've known a lot of love, but there is something that I lack
Each time that there's a break-up, I'm the one who gets the sack
And when I give my heart away, I always get it back
Everything happens to me
I've telegraphed and phoned and sent an air mail special too
Your answer was goodbye, there was even postage due
I fell in love just once, and then it had to be with you
Everything happens to me
Tom Adair, Matt Dennis
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Dreamer
02:40
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Why are my eyes always filled with this vision of you
Why do I dream silly dreams that I know won't come true
I long to show you the stars
Caught in the dark of the sea
I long to speak of my love but you don't come to me
So I go on thinking maybe some day you'll care
I tell my sad little dreams to the soft evening air
I am quite hopeless it seems
Two things I know how to do
One is to dream
Two is loving you
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees
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Nothing Could Be Better
01:54
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When I fell for you, you were something
I thought nothing could be better for me
Than spending my nights holding you tight
Just goes to show you how wrong I can be
Now lately you've been staying out the whole night through
Tell me what's a fool like you supposed to do
Leaving you would leave me with nothing
But nothing could be better than you
Once upon a time we had something
I thought nothing could be better than that
But I'm getting wise to your little lies
Honey, you can find yourself a new door mat
Nothing could be better than shaking these blues
Walking out is easy when there's nothing to lose
Leaving you would leave me with nothing
But nothing could be better than you
Mike Dowling, Jan Dowling
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It Never Fails
03:22
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Oh it never fails, anytime I start
To speak my mind I break her heart
Oh it never fails
Any time I feel my faith is strong
This doubt appears and steers me wrong
Oh it never fails
This world is not the one we used to know and love
Can't help wondering if it ever was
Oh it never fails, in times like these
I hold you and my soul's at ease
Oh it never fails
No, it never fails
Ron Sexsmith
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Here I'll Stay
03:12
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If I've no will to go from home
And have no urge the seas to roam
And turn my back on a distant star
And never burn to wander far
It's not because of fear
It's because my goal is clear
There's a far land I'm told
Where I'll find a field of gold
But here I'll stay with you.
And they say there's an isle deep with clover
Where your heart wears a smile all day through
But I know, well, they're wrong
And I know where I belong
Here I'll stay with you
For that land is a sandy illusion
It's the theme of a dream gone astray
And the world others woo
I can find loving you
And so here I'll stay
Kurt Weill, Alan Jay Lerner
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Justin Hayford Chicago, Illinois
Justin Hayford is a Chicago-based singer and pianist who specializes in bringing new life to jazz standards, both well known and obscure. He has released three previous CDs on the LML Music label, focusing on lost tunes from the American popular songbook. Show Business Weekly says, "“Cool, classy and clever, Justin Hayford’s impeccable taste is an oasis of sanity in a world gone mad.” ... more
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