Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love

Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
music & lyric by Cole Porter

When the little bluebird, who has never said a word,
Starts to sing, "Spring, spring,"
When the little bluebell, in the bottom of the dell,
Starts to sing, "Ding, ding,"
When the little blue clerk, in the middle of his work,
Starts a tune to the moon up above, it is nature, that's all,
Simply telling us to fall in love.
And that's why...

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
In Spain, the best upper sets do it, Lithuanians and Letts do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love...

The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it, not to mention the Finns,
Folks in Siam do it, think of Siamese twins...

Some Argentines, without means, do it, people say, in Boston, even beans do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
Romantic sponges they say do it, oysters down in Oyster Bay do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love...

The nightingales, in the dark, do it, larks k-razy for a lark, do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
Canaries, caged in the house do it, when they're out of season, grouse do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

The most sedate barnyard fowls do it, when a chanticleer cries,
High-browed old owls do it, they're supposed to be wise.
Penguins in flocks, on the rocks, do it, even little cuckoos in their clocks, do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Romantic sponges, they say, do it, oysters down in Oyster Bay, do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it, even lazy jellyfish do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Electric eels, I might add, do it, though it shocks 'em, I know.
Why ask if shad do it?
Waiter, bring me shad roe.

In shallow shoals, English soles do it, goldfish, in the privacy of bowls, do it,
Let's do it, let's fall in love...

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
music by George Gershwin (left)
lyric by Ira Gershwin (right)

Things have come to a pretty pass---our romance is growing flat,
For you like this and the other, while I go for this and that.
Goodness knows what the end will be; oh, I don't know where I'm at...
It looks as if we two will never be one.
Something must be done...

You say eether and I say eyether, you say neether and I say nyther;
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther---let's call the whole thing off!

You like potato and I like po-tah-to; you like tomato and I like to-mah-to;
Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to---let's call the whole thing off!

But oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must part,
And oh, if we ever part then that might break my heart.

So, if you like pajamas and I like pa-jah-mas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pa-jah-mas.
For we know we need each other, so we better call the calling off off.
Let's call the whole thing off!

You say laughter and I say lawfter, you say after and I say awfter;
Laughter, lawfter, after, awfter---let's call the whole thing off!
You like vanilla and I like vanella, you, sa'sparilla and I sa'sparella;
Vanilla, vanella, choc'late, strawb'ry---let's call the whole thing off!

But oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must part.
And oh, if we ever part, then that would break my heart.

So, if you go for oysters and I go for ersters,
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters.
For we know we need each other, so we better call the calling off off!
Let's call the whole thing off!

I say father and you say pater, I say mother and you say mater;
Father, mother, auntie, uncle---let's call the whole thing off!
I like banana and you like ba-nahn-ah, I say Havana and I get Ha-vahn-ah;
Banana, ba-nahn-ah, Havana, Ha-vahn-ah---never a happy medium!

Let Yourself Go

Let Yourself Go
music & lyric by Irving Berlin

As you listen to the band, don't you get a bubble?
As you listen to them play, don't you get a glow?
If you step out on the floor, you'll forget your trouble;
If you go into your dance, you'll forget your woe---
So:

Come get together, let the dance floor feel your leather,
Step as lightly as a feather---let yourself go.

Come hit the timber, loosen up and start to limber,
Can't you hear that hot marimba?---let yourself go.

Let yourself go, relax and let yourself go, relax.
You've got yourself tied up in a knot; the night is cold but the music's hot; so

Come cuddle closer, don't you dare to answer "No sir,"
Butcher, banker, clerk and grocer---let yourself go...

Let There Be Love

Let There Be Love
music by Lionel Rand
lyric by Ian Grant

Let there be you, let there be me,
Let there be oysters under the sea.
Let there be wind and occasional rain,
Chili con carne and sparkling champagne.

Let there be birds that sing in the trees,
Someone to bless me whenever I sneeze.
Let there be coo-coos, a lark and a dove, but most of all please,
Let there be love...

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
music by Jule Styne (left)
lyric by Sammy Cahn (right)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
It doesn't show signs of stopping and I've brought some corn for popping;
The lights are turned way down low, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

When we finally kiss goodnight, how I'll hate going out in the storm,
But if you really hold me tight, all the way home I'll be warm.

The fire is slowly dying, my dear, we're still goodbying,
But as long as you love me so, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Learnin' The Blues

Learnin' The Blues
music & lyric by Dolores Vicki Silvers

The tables are empty, the dance floor's deserted,
You play the same love song, it's the tenth time you've heard it.
That's the beginning, just one of the clues,
You've had your first lesson in learnin' the blues.

The cigarettes you light one after another, won't help you forget her
And the way that you love her.
You're only burnin' a torch you can't lose,
But you're on the right track for learnin' the blues.

When you're at home alone the blues will taunt you constantly.
When you're out in a crowd the blues will haunt your memory.

The nights when you don't sleep, the whole night you're crying.
You just can't forget her, soon you'll even stop trying.
You'll walk the floor and wear out your shoes,
When you feel your heart break, you're learnin' the blues.

Lazybones

Lazybones
music by Hoagy Carmichael (left)
lyric by Johnny Mercer (right)

Long as there is chicken gravy on your rice, ev'rything is nice.
Long as there's a watermelon on the vine, ev'rything's fine.
You got no time to work, you got no time to play,
Busy doin' nothin' at all the live-long day.
You won't ever change no matter what I say, you're just made that way.

Lazybones, sleepin' in the sun, how you'spec to get your days work done?
Never get your day's work done, sleepin' in the noon-day sun.
Lazybones, sleepin' in the shade, how you 'spec to get your corn meal made?
Never get your corn meal made sleepin' in the evenin' shade.

When 'taters need sprayin', I bet you keep prayin' the bugs fall off the vine
And when you go fishin' I bet you keep wishin' the fish won't grab at your line.

Lazybones, loafin' thru the day, how you 'spec to make a dime that way?
Never make a dime that way
(Well looky here,) he never heared a word I say!

Lazy River

Lazy River
music by Sidney Arodin (left)
lyric by Sidney Arodin & Hoagy Carmichael (right)

Up a lazy river by the old mill stream,
That lazy hazy river where we both can dream.
Linger in the shade of an old oak tree,
Throw away your troubles, dream a dream of me.

Up a lazy river where the robin's song wakes up in the mornin' as we roll along.
Blue skies up above, everyone's in love,
Up a lazy river, how happy we will be,
Up a lazy river with me.

Lazy Afternoon

Lazy Afternoon
music by Jerome Moross (left)
lyric by John Latouche (right)

It's a lazy afternoon and the beetle bugs are zooming,
And the julip trees are blooming,
And there's not another human in view, but us two.

It's a lazy afternoon and the farmer leaves his reaping,
And the meadow cows are sleeping,
And the speckled trout stop leaping up stream, as we dream.

A far pink cloud hangs over the hill, unfolding like a rose.
If you hold my hand and sit real still you can hear the grass as it grows.

It's a hazy afternoon and I know a place that's quiet, except for daisies running riot,
And there's no one passing by it to see,
Come and spend this lazy afternoon with me.

Laura

Laura
music by David Raksin (left)
lyric by Johnny Mercer (right)

Laura is the face in the misty night, footsteps that you hear down the hall.
The laugh that floats on a summer night, that you can never quite recall.
And you see Laura on the train that is passing thru,
Those eyes how familiar they seem.
She gave your very first kiss to you
That was Laura but she's only a dream...

Laughing On The Outside

Laughing On The Outside
music by Bernie Wayne (left)
lyric by Ben Raleigh

The crowd sees me out dancing, carefree and romancing,
Happy with my someone new;
I'm laughing on the outside, crying on the inside 'cause I'm still in love with you.

They see me night and daytime, having such a gay time,
They don't know what I go through,
I'm laughing on the outside, crying on the inside, 'cause I'm still in love with you.

No one knows it's just a pose, pretending I'm glad we're apart,
And when I cry, my eyes are dry, the tears are in my heart.

My darling, can't we make up?
Ever since our breakup, make believe is all I do,
I'm laughing on the outside, crying on the inside, 'cause I'm still in love with you.

Last Night When We Were Young

Last Night When We Were Young
music by Harold Arlen (left)
lyric by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (right)

Last night when we were young, love was a star, a song unsung.
Life was so new, so real so bright, ages ago last night.
Today the world is old, you flew away and time grew cold,
Where is that star that shone so bright, ages ago last night?

To think that spring had depended on merely this, a look, a kiss.
To think that something so splendid could slip away in one little daybreak,
So now let's reminisce and recollect the sighs and the kisses,
The arms that clung when we were young last night.

Knock Me A Kiss

Knock Me A Kiss
music by Mike Jackson
lyric by Andy Razaf (left)

I like cake, no mistake, but Baby, if you insist,
I'll cut out the cake, just for your sake, Baby, knock me a kiss.

I like pie, I hope to die, just to get a load of this.
When you get high, doggone the pie, Baby, c'mon and knock me a kiss.

When you pressed your lips to mine, that was when I understood.
They taste like candy, brandy and wine, peaches, bananas and ev'rything good.

I love jam and no flim flam, scratch that off my list.
This ain't no jam, the jam can scram, Baby, c'mon and knock me a kiss!

When you pressed your sweet lips to mine, that was when I understood.
They taste like candy, brandy and wine, peacxhes, bananas and ev'rything good.
I like cars and big cigars, but Baby, they won't be missed,
If ev'ryday I hear you say, "Baby! C'mon and knock me a kiss!"

Keep Smiling At Trouble

Keep Smiling At Trouble
music by Lewis E. Gensler
lyric by B.G. DeSylva & Al Jolson (right)

When you've learned that life is what you make it,
Then you've learned the secret of it all.
Find your share of happiness and take it, make life a song as you go along...

Keep smiling at trouble, for trouble's a bubble, and bubbles will soon fly away.
With never a sadness, and always gladness, we would weary of life in a day.

C'mon let's all be like the violets that doze 'neath the chill winter's snow.

Keep smiling at trouble, for trouble is a bubble, and bubbles will soon fly away...

Just You, Just Me

Just You, Just Me
music by Jesse Greer
lyric by Raymond Klages

Just you, just me, let's find a cozy spot to cuddle and coo.
Just us, just we, I've missed an awful lot, my trouble is you.
Oh gee, what are your charms for, what are my arms for?
Use your imagination!

Just you, just me, I'll tie a lover's knot 'round wonderful you...

Just Squeeze Me

Just Squeeze Me
music by Duke Ellington (left)
lyric by Lee Gaines (right in photo)

Want you to know I go for your squeezin'.
Want you to know it really is pleasin'.
Want you to know I ain't for no teasin'.

Treat me sweet and gentle when you say goodnight,
Just squeeze me, but please don't tease me.
I get sentimental when you hold me tight,
Just squeeze me, but please don't tease me.

Missing you since you went away, singing the blues away each day,
Counting the nights and waiting for you.
I'm in the mood to let you know, I never knew I loved you so,
Please say you love me too.

When I get this feelin', I'm in ecstasy, so squeeze me,
But please don't tease me.

Just Say I Love Him

Just Say I Love Him
music by Rodolfo Falvo-Jack Val-Jimmy Dale
lyric by Enzo Fusco-Martin Kalmanoff-Sam Ward

Just say that I need him as roses need the rain,
And tell him that without him, my dreams are all in vain.
Just say I love him, I loved him from the start
And tell him that I'm yearning to say what's in my heart.

If you should chance to meet him, anytime, anyplace, anywhere,
Say I was a fool to leave him; tell him how much a fool can care.

And if he tells you he's lonely now and then, won't you tell him that I love him
And want him back again.

Just One Of Those Things

Just One Of Those Things
music & lyric by Cole Porter

As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend: "Fare thee well!"
As Columbus announced when he knew he was bounced: "It was swell, Isabelle, swell!"
As Abelard said to Heloise: "Don't forget to drop a line to me, please."
As Juliet cried in her Romeo's ear: "Romeo, why not face the fact, my dear?"

It was just one of those things; just one of those crazy flings,
One of those bells that now and then rings; just one of those things.

It was just one of those nights; just one of those fabulous flights.
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings, just one of those things...

If we thought a bit 'bout the end of it when we started painting the town;
We'd have been aware that our love affair was too hot not to cool down...

So goodbye, dear, and amen, here's hoping we'll meet now and then.
It was great fun, but it was just one of those things...

Just One More Chance

Just One More Chance
music by Sam Coslow (left)
lyric by Arthur Johnston (right)

Just one more chance, to prove it's you alone I care for,
Each night I say a little prayer for just one more chance.
Just one more night, to taste the kisses that enchant me,
I'd want no others if you'd grant me, just one more chance.

I've learned the meaning of repentance, now you're the jury at my trial.
I know that I should serve my sentence, still I'm hoping all the while,
You'll give me...

Just one more word, I said that I was glad to start out,
But now I'm back to cry my heart out for just one more chance.

We spend our lives in goping for happiness.
I found it once and tossed it aside.
I paid for it with hours of loneliness; I've nothing to hide.
I'd bury my pride for just one more chance.