Love Me Or Leave Me

Love Me Or Leave Me

music by Walter Donaldson (under Kahn)
lyric by Gus Kahn (top)

Love me or leave me or let me be lonely,

You won't believe me but I love you only.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody new.

Some find the night time the right time for kissing.

Night time is my time for just reminiscing.

Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody else.

There'll be no one unless that someone is you, you, you.

I intend to be independently true, true, true.

I want your love but I don't want to borrow,

To have it today and to give back tomorrow.

My love is your love and yours is for somebody else...

Love Is Here To Stay

Love Is Here To Stay

music by George Gershwin (l-r: Fred Astaire, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
lyric by Ira Gershwin

The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend
The world and all its 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 we're going a long, long way.
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibralter may tumble
They're only made of clay, but---our love is here to stay...

Love For Sale

Love For Sale

music and lyric by Cole Porter

When the only sound in the empty street is the heavy tread of the heavy feet

That belongs to a lonesome cop, I open shop.

When the moon so long has been gazing down

On the wayward ways of this wayward town, that her smile becomes a smirk,

I go to work.

Love for sale, appetizing young love for sale.

Love that's fresh and still unspoiled, love that's only slightly soiled,

Love for sale.

Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply?

Who's prepared to pay the price for a trip to paradise?

Love for sale.

Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way,

I know ev'ry type of love better far than they.

If you want the thrill of love, I've been through the mill of love,

Old love, new love, ev'ry love but true love...

Love for sale, appetizing young love for sale.

If you want to buy my wares, follow me and climb the stairs,

Love for sale...

Looking For A Boy

Looking For A Boy

music by George Gershwin (left)
lyric by Ira Gershwin (right)

If it's true that love affairs are all arranged in Heaven,
My Guardian Angel's holding out on me.
So I'm looking for a boy 'bout five foot six or seven,
And won't be happy till I'm on his knee.
I'll be blue until he comes my way; hope he takes the cue when I'm saying:

I am just a little girl who's looking for a little boy who's looking for a girl to love.
Tell me please, where can he be, the loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony I'm dreaming of?

It'll be goodbye, I know, to my tale of woe when he says, "Hello!"

So, I am just a little girl who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love...

Looking At You

Looking At You

music and lyric by Cole Porter

I've gone afar, collecting objets d'art, I know the whole game by heart.
Why, Joe Duveen will tell you what I mean, 'twas I who gave him his start.
But since I looked, dear, in your direction, I've quite forgotten my art collection.
To be exact, you simply prove the fact that nature's greater than art.
I'm admiring the view, 'cause it's you I'm seeing.
And the sweet honeydew of well-being settles upon me.
What is this light that shines when you enter?
Like a star in the night, and what's to prevent 'er from destroying my sight,
If you center all of it on me?

Looking at you, I'm filled with the essence of the quintessence of joy.
Looking at you, I hear poets tellin' of lovely Helen of Troy, darling

Life seemed so gray I wanted to end it,
Till that wonderful day you started to mend it.
And if you'll only stay, then I'll spend it looking at you...

Look For The Silver Lining

Look For The Silver Lining

music by Jerome Kern (above)
lyric by B.G. (Buddy) DeSylva (upper right: l-r: B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson))

Please don't be offended if I preach to you a while,
Tears are out of place in eyes that were meant to smile.
There's a way to make your very biggest troubles small,
Here's the happy secret of it all...

Look for the silver lining when e'er a cloud appears in the blue.
Remember somewhere the sun is shining and so the right thing to do
Is make it shine for you.

A heart, full of joy and gladness will always banish sadness and strife
So always look for the silver lining and try to find the sunny side of life.

As I wash my dishes, I'll be following your plan,
Till I see the brightness in ev'ry pot and pan.
I am sure your point of view will ease the daily grind,
So I'll keep repeating in my mind...

Look for the silver lining when e'er a cloud appears in the blue.
Remember somewhere the sun is shining and so the right thing to do
Is make it shine for you.
A heart full of joy and gladness will always banish sorrow and strife
So always look for the silver lining and try to find the sunny side of life.

Long Ago And Far Away

Long Ago And Far Away

music by Jerome Kern (left)
lyric by Ira Gershwin (top)

Dreary days are over.
Life's a four-leaf clover.
Sessions of depressions are through---
Ev'ry hope I longed for long ago, comes true.

Long ago and far away, I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me.
Long the skies were overcast, but now the clouds have passed:
You're here at last!

Chills run up and down my spine, Aladdin's lamp is mine,
The dream I dreamed was not denied me.
Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for long ago, was you.

Lonely Town

Lonely Town

music by Leonard Bernstein
lyric by Betty Comden & Adolph Green

(l-r: Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Leonard Bernstein)

A town's a lonely town when you pass through,

And there is no one waiting there for you,

Then it's a lonely town.

You wander up and down, the crowds rush by,

A million faces pass before your eye,

Still it's a lonely town.

Unless there's love, a love that's shining like a harbor light.

You're lost in the night;

Unless there's love, the world's an empty place,

And every town's a lonely town.

London By Night

London By Night

music & lyric by Carroll Coates

London by night is a wonderful sight, there is magic abroad in the air.
I'm often told that the streets turn to gold,
When the moon shines on Circus and Square.

Deep in the dark that envelopes the park, there's romance in each cigarette glow.
Down by the Thames lights that sparkle like gems seem to wink at each girl and her beau.

Up comes the moon when the city's asleep, he's not alone for it seems,
Somewhere up there stands an angel to keep her watch while each Londoner dreams.

My love and I saw the sun leave the sky, then we kissed in the fast-fading light.
Most people say they love London by day,
But lovers love London by night.