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Music and Lyrics I Love 

150 Titles--Alphabetical by Title 

Selections of Lyrics Included 

150 songs (etc) which I have a special connection with, and will always remember 

The different kinds of music in this collection (and quantities of each) 

(Note: Most songs are from the American Cultural Landscape) 

(34) Songs from Musicals 

(15) Big Band Ballads, Swing, etc from 1940’s and 1950’s 

(15) Classical Music 

(14) Contemporary Songs/Ballads 

(14) Band Music/Jazz/Ballads from 1920’s and 1930’s 

(9) Popular “Sheet Music Era” Songs 

(8) Old Time Country Music 

(7) English/Irish/Scottish Folk Songs 

(6) American Folk Songs 

(4) Chinese Folk Songs 

(4) Christian Hymns/Carols 

(4) Barbershop Quartet Songs 

(3) Story Songs 

(3) Waltzes 

(2) African American Spirituals 

(2) Marching Songs 

(2) Polka Music 

(1) Klesmer Music 

(1) Jug Band Music 

(1) Calypso Music 

(1) Children’s Song 

Contact Information 

Stefan Pasti 

P.O. Box 163 Leesburg, Virginia 20178 

stefanpasti@ipcri.net

Introduction 

Music and Lyrics I Love 

I’m not really sure how I happen to have a special interest in music… probably it is something that 

started when I was still very young…. One likely “seed-cause”: I remember learning how to whistle to 

an album titled “Mitch’s Marches—Mitch Miller and His Orchestra”. (There have been many songs since 

then that I remembered by whistling them to myself until I knew the basic melody.) Also, during the 

years when I was 8-10 years old, I saw the plays “The Music Man” and “The Sound of Music”, and saw 

the movie “Mary Poppins”. (There are 19 songs from those 3 musicals in this collection). And I can still 

remember the yellow colored 78 record we had of Danny Kaye singing “Thumbelina” and “Wonderful, 

Wonderful Copenhagen” (from the movie/musical “Hans Christian Andersen”)…. 

In my adult years, I have had some special experiences with both musical instruments, and collections of 

music. 

1) In the late 1980’s, I was living in North Carolina, and I was inspired—by local music events (like Harvest Festivals 

featuring Square Dances in the “Apple Barn”), and lots of people around who happened to play an instrument—to 

to have a go at the fiddle. I didn’t get that far, but I came into contact with a lot of fiddle tunes in the process. 

2) I was an Activity Director for elders with special needs for seven years (in the 1990’s); and I did much exploring 

into music which they would know, to use in sing-alongs, and other music related activities. One of my 

explorations led to a music collector in Amissville, Virginia, who had most of the 78’s ever made from 1900-1940. 

He was interested in helping me make custom tapes, and would even play 4 or 5 versions of a song, so I could 

decide what I would like him to record onto custom cassette tapes. 

3) A few years ago I explored learning how to play the hammered dulcimer. In my search for interesting tunes to 

play, I learned about many of the sources on the Internet for collections of different genres, and many of the ways 

on the Internet to listen to a sample of a song (YouTube, samples at amazon.com, sources for midi files, etc.). 

I like many different kinds of music. Most of the songs in this list are from the American Cultural 

Landscape (the music that has been most accessible to me over the years); but there are also some very 

special songs from other countries. I have made some effort to identify the musical genre of the song, 

etc.; and I have provided selections of lyrics (from the songs with lyrics). Many of these songs, I believe, 

are examples of a “special match” between the tone of the music and the tone of the lyrics. (Maybe 

some readers who have not previously been “keyed into” appreciating that special quality of a song, will 

start to notice it, through careful attention to music and lyrics in this collection.) In addition, when there 

was a specific version of the song, etc. which I preferred, I identified the performer(s) in parentheses. 

I think of this compilation (and the selected lyrics) as a general tribute to the writers, composers, 

performers, etc.—to all the people involved in the creation, production, and distribution of this music; 

and as a expression of gratitude for the inspiration I personally discover when I listen to these particular 

songs. With more time, there is much more which could be added to this collection: more information 

about names of songwriter’s, dates of publication, background information about the songs, memories 

which these songs inspire, etc. 

I hope readers make many discoveries—or re-discover many special memories—by looking through this 

list. Readers of this compilation are encouraged to send any comments, questions, suggestions, etc. 

which are inspired by this list to me, Stefan Pasti (stefanpasti@ipcri.net ).

Here is the list of 150 songs (etc) which I have a special connection with, and will always remember. 

“A Song for You” (The Carpenters) 

(Contemporary Song) 

(“I love you in a place where there’s no space or time….”) 

“A Spoonful of Sugar” 

(from Musical “Mary Poppins”) 

(“In ev`ry job that must be done, there is an element of fun. 

You find the fun and snap!—the job`s a game 

And ev`ry task you undertake becomes a piece of cake; 

A lark! A spree! It`s very clear to see 

That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…..”) 

“Adagio in G minor” (for Strings and Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a Figured Bass by Tomaso 

Albinoni) (by Remo Giazotto, 1958) 

(Classical Baroque) 

“An Autumnal Feeling of Desolation” 

(Chinese Traditional Music) 

“Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” (Willie Nelson) 

(Contemporary Soft Rock/Blues Ballad) 

(“I knew someday that you would fly away; 

Love’s the greatest healer to be found 

So leave me if you need to; I will still remember 

Angel flying too close to the ground”) 

“Angels from the Realms of Glory” 

(Christian Hymn) 

(“Saints before the altar bending 

Watching long in hope and fear 

Suddenly the Lord, descending 

In His temple shall appear”)

“Appalachian Spring” (Composer: Aaron Copland) 

(Classical Music) 

“Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch” (John Cunningham) 

[Traditional Scottish Air (slow instrumental) played on the fiddle] 

“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (Elvis Presley) 

(Contemporary Ballad) 

(“Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? 

Are you sorry we drifted apart? 

Does your memory stray, to a bright summer’s day, 

when we kissed, and you called me sweetheart 

Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare? 

Do you gaze at your doorstep, and picture me there?”) 

“Beautiful Ohio” 

(Love Song/Ballad—American Folk Song) 

(“Drifting with the current down a moonlit stream 

While above the Heavens in their glory gleam”) 

“Beer Barrel Polka” (Andrews Sisters) 

(Polka) 

(“There’s a garden, what a garden 

Only happy faces bloom there”) 

“The Blue Tail Fly” (Burl Ives) 

(Minstrel Song; Folk Song/Ballad) 

(“The pony run, he jump, he pitch 

He threw my master in a ditch 

He died, and the jury wondered why 

The verdict was the blue tail fly”) 

“The Bonnie Blue Gal” (Mitch’s Marches—Mitch Miller and His Orchestra) 

(Marching Song—Civil War Era) 

(“She’s got a lot of heaven, a-shinin’ in her eyes 

Brighter than the stars above, and bluer than the skies”)

“Buffalo Gals/Old Joe Clark (medley)” (Tony Elman; “Shakin’ Down the Acorns” Vol. 2) 

(Old Time Country Music; Hammered Dulcimer) 

“Camelot” 

(from Musical “Camelot”) 

(“The rain may never fall till after sundown; 

by eight, the morning fog must disappear 

In short, there’s simply not 

a more congenial spot 

for happily-ever-aftering 

than here in Cam-e-lot”) 

“Camptown Races/Little Maggie (medley)” (Tony Elman; “Shakin’ Down the Acorns” Vol. 2) 

(Old Time Folk/Bluegrass) 

“Careless Love” (Sunshine Skiffle Band) 

(Jug Band Music—featuring a saw, spoons, and a kazoo) 

“Carolina in the Morning” 

(Sing-Along Song—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina in the mornin’, 

No one could be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the mornin’ 

Where the morning glories, 

twine around the door; 

whispering pretty stories 

I long to hear once more”) 

“Carrying The Torch” (Slim Pickens) 

(Patriotic Story Song; Upbeat Country Music) 

(“And boy, she’s carrying the torch for you, 

Her love light shines for all the world to see 

When you decide you care, you’re gonna find her waitin’ there….”) 

“Chattanooga Choo Choo” (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra) 

(Big Band/Swing from the 1940’s) 

(“You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four; 

read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore 

Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer; 

than to have your ham an' eggs in Carolina”)

“Climb Every Mountain” 

(from Musical “The Sound of Music”) 

(“A dream that will need, all the love you can give; 

every day of your life, for as long as you live”) 

“Colonel Bogey March” (Mitch’s Marches—Mitch Miller and His Orchestra) (the tune whistled by the 

soldiers as they entered the prison camp in the movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai”) 

(Marching Song) 

“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” (from “The Nutcracker Suite”; Composer: Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky) 


“Down by the Old Mill Stream” 

(Barbershop Quartet Song—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

[“Down by the old mill stream; 

where I first met you 

With your eyes of blue; 

dressed in gingham too 

It was there I knew; 

that you loved me true 

You were sixteen, my village queen-by 

the old mill stream 

(the old mill stream)”] 

“Edelweiss” 


(“Edelweiss, Edelweiss, 

every morning you greet me 

Small and white, clean and bright; 

you look happy to meet me 

Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow, 

bloom and grow forever 

Edelweiss, Edelweiss 

Bless my homeland forever”) 

“The 1812 Overture” (Composer: Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky) (Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia 

Orchestra) 

(Classical Music)

“Feed the Birds” 


[“All around the cathedral, the saints and apostles, 

look down as she sells her wares 

(And) although you can't see it, you know they are smiling; 

each time someone shows that he cares”] 

“Florida Suite (I. Daybreak, III. Sunset, IV. At Night)” (composer: Frederick Delius) 


“Flying Indian” (A. Robic and the Exertions) 

(Old Time Country Fiddling) 

“Foggy Dew” (The Chieftains with Sinead O’Conner) 

(Traditional Irish Ballad) 

(“While the world did gaze with deep amaze; 

at those fearless men, but few 

Who bore the fight that freedom's light 

might shine through the foggy dew”) 

“For Once in My Life” (Tony Bennett) 

(Contemporary Song, with string arrangement) 

(“For once I can say, ‘this is mine, you can’t take it’; 

as long as I know I have love I can make it”) 

“Froggie Went A’Courtin’” (Doc Watson) 

(Traditional Folk Song—English/Scottish Origin) 

[“Miss Mousie said, ‘I don’t know about that’ (uh-huh)….”] 

“Georgia on My Mind” (Ray Charles) 


(“Other arms reach out to me, 

other eyes smile tenderly; 

still in peaceful dreams I see, 

the road leads back to you”)

“Get Along Little Dogies” (Burl Ives) 

(American Cowboy Folk Song) 

(“As I was walkin’ one morning for pleasure; 

I spied a cowpuncher a-riding along 

His hat was throw'd back, and his spurs were jingling… 

And as he approached, he was singing this song— 

Whoo-pi-ti-yi-yay….“) 

“Get Together” (Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods) 

(Contemporary Light Rock Ballad) 

(“If you hear the song I sing, 

you must understand 

(Listen) You hold the key to love and fear, 

all in your trembling hand 

Just one key unlocks them both; 

it's there at your command 

C'mon people now, 

smile on ye brother, 

ev'rybody get together, 

try and love one another right now”) 

“Ghost Riders in the Sky” (Johnny Cash) 

(Contemporary Country/Cowboy Ballad) 

(“As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name 

If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range 

Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride 

Trying to catch the Devil's herd, across these endless skies 

Yippie yi Ohhhhh 

Yippie yi Yaaaaay 

Ghost Riders in the sky”) 

“Girls of Ali Mountain” (Beijing Bamboo Instrument Band) 

(Traditional Chinese Folksong featuring an instrument called Erhu) 

“Goodbye to Love” (The Carpenters) 


(“So I’ve made my mind up, 

I must live my life alone

And though it’s not the easy way, 

I guess I’ve always known— 

I’d say goodbye to love….”) 

“Goodnight, My Someone” 

(Love Song; from Musical “The Music Man”) 

(“True love can be whispered from heart to heart 

when lovers are parted, they say 

But I must depend on a wish and a star 

just as long as my heart doesn’t know who you are”) 

“The Heather on the Hill” 

(from Musical “Brigadoon”) 

(“The mist of May is in the gloamin', 

and all the clouds are holdin' still 

So take my hand and let's go roamin' 

through the heather on the hill”) 

“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” 


(“Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her, 

many a thing she ought to understand 

But how do you make her stay, 

and listen to all you say 

How do you keep a wave upon the sand?”) 

“How Great Thou Art” 

(Christian Hymn) 

(“When through the woods, and forest glades I wander; 

I hear the birds, sing sweetly in the trees 

When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur, 

and hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze”) 

“Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” (Composer: Franz Listz) (Performed by Maksim Mrvica) 

(Classical Piano)

“I Can’t Get Started” (Bunny Berrigan) 

(Swing Era Ballad featuring a well known trumpet segment—from late1930’s) 

(“I’ve been consulted by Franklin D., 

Greta Garbo has had me to tea; 

still, I’m broken hearted 

‘cause I can’t get started with you”) 

“I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” (Ray Charles) 

(Country Ballad—from 1950’s) 

(“Those happy hours, that we once knew; 

though long ago, still make me blue 

They say that time, heals a broken heart; 

but time has stood still, since we’ve been apart”) 

“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (Tony Bennett) 


(“I left my heart in San Francisco 

High on a hill, it calls to me 

To be where little cable cars 

climb halfway to the stars! 

The morning fog may chill the air 

I don't care! 

My love waits there in San Francisco 

above the blue and windy sea 

When I come home to you, San Francisco, 

Your golden sun will shine for me!”) 

“I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate” (The Whoopie Makers) 

(instrumental which includes ukulele; from late 1920’s) 

“I Wonder As I Wander” (Composer: John Jacob Niles) 

(Christmas Carol) 

“I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (Welling/McGhee Trio)(hillbilly ballad) 

(Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song; Waltz) 

(“I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air. 

They fly so high, nearly reach the sky; 

then like my dreams, they fade and die 

Fortune's always hiding; I've looked everywhere 

I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air”)

“I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (Fats Waller) 

(Light Jazz—mid 1930’s) 

(“I'm gonna smile and say ‘I hope you're feeling better’, 

and close ‘with love’ the way you do 

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, 

and make believe it came from you)” 

“I’m Lookin’ Over a Four Leaf Clover” 

(Sing-Along Song—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“I'm looking over a four-leaf clover 

That I overlooked before 

One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain, 

Third is the roses that grow in the lane 

No need explaining, the one remaining 

Is somebody I adore 

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover 

That I overlooked before”) 

“I’ll Be Seeing You” (Jo Stafford) 

(Ballad—from 1940’s) 

(“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 trees; 

The wishin' well 

I'll be seeing you, in every lovely summer's day; 

in every thing that's light and gay 

I'll always think of you that way….”) 

“If I Loved You” 

(Love Song; from Musical “Carousel”) 

(“If I loved you, 

time and again I would try to say-all 

I'd want you to know 

If I loved you, 

words wouldn't come in an easy way-round 

in circles I'd go! 

Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy; 

I'd let my golden chances pass me by!”)

“If I Only Had a Brain (Scarecrow) 

(from Musical “The Wizard of Oz”) 

(“Scarecrow: “Oh, I’m a failure, because I don’t have a brain.” 

Dorothy: “Well—what would you do with a brain if you had one.” 

Scarecrow: “Do? Why— 

I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, 

consultin' with the rain 

And my head I'd be scratchin', while my thoughts were busy hatchin', 

if I only had a brain”) 

“If I Only Had a Heart” (Tin Man) 


(“Dorothy: (finishing oiling his rusty metal joints) There—you’re perfect now! 

Tin Man: Perfect? Bang on my chest if you think I’m perfect… Go ahead! Bang on it!.... Empty. 

The tinsman forgot to give me a heart”.) 

(“When a man's an empty kettle he should be on his mettle, 

and yet I'm torn apart 

Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind-a-human, 

if I only had a heart”) 

“If I Only Had The Nerve” (Cowardly Lion) 


(“Yeah, it's sad, believe me, Missy, 

when you're born to be a sissy, 

without the vim and verve 

But I could show my prowess, be a lion not a mou-ess, 

if I only had the nerve”) 

“If I Were a Rich Man” 

(from Musical “Fiddler on the Roof”) 

(“The most important men in town would come to call on me! 

They would ask me to advise them, like a Solomon the Wise. 

‘If you please, Reb Tevye...’,’Pardon me, Reb Tevye...’ 

Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes! 

(Ya-da-de-da-da! Ya-da-da-da! Ya-da-da-da!) 

And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong-when 

you're rich, they think you really know!

If I were rich, I'd have the time that I’d like, 

to sit in the synagogue and pray… 

and maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall 

And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men--several hours every day! 

And that would be the sweetest thing of all”) 

“In a Shanty in Old Shantytown” (Singing Sam, the Barbasol Man) 

(Ballad—Great Depression Era) 

(“It's only a shanty in old Shanty Town; 

the roof is so slanty it touches the ground 

But my tumbled down shack, by an old railroad track, 

like a millionaire's mansion—is calling me back 

I'd give up a palace if I were a king; 

it's more than a palace, it's my everything 

There's a queen waiting there with a silvery crown 

in a shanty in old Shanty Town”) 

“In the Hall of the Mountain King” (piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grief for the sixth 

scene of Act II in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt”) (Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46) 

(Classical Piano) 

“In the Pines” (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys) 

(Old Time Country/Hillbilly Bluegrass) 

(“The longest train I ever saw 

went down that Georgia line 

The engine passed at six o'clock 

and the cab passed by at nine 

Refrain: 

In the pines, in the pines 

where the sun never shines 

And we shiver when the cold wind blows. 

Whoo-hoo-hoo, whoo-hoo-hoo, 

whoo-whoo-whoo hoo-hoo!”) 

“In the Remote Area” 

(Traditional Chinese Folksong)

“Iowa Stubborn” 

(from Musical “The Music Man”) 

(“We can be cold as our falling thermometer in December, 

if you ask about our weather in July. 

And we're so by God stubborn, we can stand touchin' noses, 

for a week at a time and never see eye-to-eye. 

But we'll give you our shirt 

and a back to go with it 

if your crops should happen to die.”) 

“Jamaica Farewell” (Harry Belafonte) 

(Calypso Ballad) 

(“Sounds of laughter everywhere 

and the dancing girls swing to and fro 

I must declare my heart is there 

though I've been from Maine to Mexico 

But I'm sad to say I'm on my way 

won't be back for many a day 

My heart is down, my head is turning around 

I've had to leave a little girl in Kingston Town”) 

“Jolly Holiday” 


(“Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary 

Mary makes your 'eart so light 

When the day is gray and ordinary 

Mary makes the sun shine bright! 

Oh 'appiness is bloomin' all around 'er 

The daffoldils are smilin' at the doves 

When Mary 'olds your 'and you feel so grand 

Your 'eart starts beatin' like a big brass band 

Oh, it's a jolly holiday with Mary 

No wonder that it's Mary that we love!”) 

“Just a Night for Meditation” (Nat Shilkret Orchestra) 

(Jazz Orchestra Dance Song from late 1920’s)

“Kang Ding Qing Ge” (“Love Song of Kangding”) (Kangding, Sichuan Province, China) 

(Traditional Chinese Folk Song) 

“Kolomeike” (The Machaya Klesmer Band) 

(Klesmer Music/Ukranian Dance) 

“La Campanella (“the little bell”) (Third of six “Grand Paganini Etudes”, S. 141)” (Composer: Franz Liszt) 

(Performed by Valentina Lisitsa) 


“La Vie En Rose” (Tony Martin) 

(Ballad—from 1950’s) (“La Vie En Rose”/”Life Seen Through ‘Rose-colored glasses’”) 

(“Hold me close and hold me fast 

the magic spell you cast 

this is ‘la vie en rose’ 

When you kiss me heaven sighs 

and tho I close my eyes 

I see ‘la vie en rose’ 

When you press me to your heart 

I'm in a world apart 

a world where roses bloom 

And when you speak, angels sing from above 

Everyday words seem to turn into love songs 

Give your heart and soul to me 

And life will always be ‘la vie en rose’”) 

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” 

(Sing-Along Song—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song; Love Song) 

(“Let me call you sweetheart 

I’m in love with you 

Let me hear you whisper 

That you love me too 

Keep the love light glowing 

in your eyes so blue 

Let me call you sweetheart 

I’m in love with you”)

“Lida Rose” (Buffalo Bills) 

(Barbershop Quartet Song, from Musical “The Music Man”) 

(“Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose 

To get the sun back in the sky 

Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose 

About a thousand kisses shy 

Ding dong ding, I can hear the chapel bells chime 

Ding dong ding: At the least suggestion I'll pop the question 

Lida Rose, I'm home again, Rose 

Without a sweetheart to my name 

Lida Rose, now everyone knows 

That I am hoping you're the same 

So here is my love song, not fancy or fine 

Lida Rose, oh won't you be mine”) 

“The Little Drummer Boy” (Ray Conniff Singers) 

(Traditional Christmas Music; very slow, instrumental version) 

“The Lonely Goatherd” 

(Play-within-a-Play Story Song, from Musical “The Sound of Music”) 

(“High on a hill was a lonely goatherd 

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo 

Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd 

Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo 

Folks in a town that was quite remote heard 

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo 

Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard 

Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo 

O ho lay dee odl lee o, o ho lay dee odl ay 

O ho lay dee odl lee o, lay dee odl lee o lay”) 

“Melody of Love” (Billy Vaughn Orchestra) 

(Big Band Instrumental—from 1950’s) 

“Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” 

(African-American Spiritual Song) 

(“Jordan river is deep and wide, Hallelujah 

Milk and honey on the other side, Hallelujah”)

“The Muffin Man/Campbell’s Farewell to Red Gap (medley)” (Tony Elman; “Shakin’ Down the Acorns” 

Vol. 2) 

(Traditional Music from England/Scotland; Hammered Dulcimer) 

“The Music Goes Round and Round” (May Questal) 

(Jazz Dance Music from 1930’s) 

(“I push the first valve down 

The music goes down and around 

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho 

And it comes out here 

I push the middle valve down 

The music goes down around 

below, below, below, 

deedle-dee-ho-ho-ho 

Listen to the jazz come out 

I push the other valve down 

The music goes 'round and ‘round 

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho 

And it comes out here”) 

“My Favorite Things” 


(“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens 

Brown paper packages tied up with strings 

These are a few of my favorite things 

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels 

Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles 

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings 

These are a few of my favorite things”) 

“My Melancholy Baby” 

(Ballad—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“Come to me my melancholy baby, 

Cuddle up and don't be blue… 

All your fears are foolish fancy, baby 

You know dear that I'm in love with you!

Every cloud must have a silver lining 

Wait until the sun shines through 

Smile my honey dear, while I kiss away each tear 

Or else I shall be melancholy too”) 

“Nature Boy (Nat King Cole) 

(Ballad—1950’s) 

(“There was a boy 

A very strange enchanted boy 

They say he wandered very far, very far 

Over land and sea 

A little shy and sad of eye 

But very wise was he 

And then one day 

A magic day he passed my way 

And while we spoke of many things 

Fools and kings 

This he said to me 

‘The greatest thing you'll ever learn 

Is just to love and be loved in return’ 

‘The greatest thing you'll ever learn 

Is just to love and be loved in return’") 

“Nevertheless” (Mills Brothers) 


(“Somehow I know at a glance 

the terrible chances that I'm taking 

fine at the start 

then left with a heart 

that is breaking (ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo) 

Maybe I'll live a life of regret, 

and maybe I'll give so much more than I get 

but nevertheless I'm in love with you”) 

“New World Symphony, First Movement” (Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World"; 

Op. 95, B. 178; First Movement) (Composer: Antonin Dvorak) (Performed by Dublin 

Philharmonic) 


“Old Cape Cod” (Patti Page) 

(Ballad—1950’s) 

(“If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air 

Quaint little villages here and there 

You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod 

If you like the taste of a lobster stew 

Served by a window with an ocean view 

You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod 

Winding roads that seem to beckon you 

Miles of green beneath a sky of blue 

Church bells chimin' on a Sunday morn 

Remind you of the town where you were born”) 

“On the Banks of the Wabash” 

(Ballad—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash, 

From the fields there comes the breath of newmown hay 

Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming, 

On the banks of the Wabash, far away”) 

“On the Street Where You Live” 

(from Musical “My Fair Lady”) 

(“I have often walked down this street before; 

but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before 

All at once am I, several stories high; 

knowing I'm on the street where you live 

Are there lilac trees in the heart of town? 

Can you hear a lark in any other part of town? 

Does enchantment pour Out of ev'ry door? 

No, it's just on the street where you live! 

And oh! The towering feeling 

Just to know somehow you are near 

The overpowering feeling 

That any second you may suddenly appear!”)

“Once Upon a Dream” 

(from Disney animated movie “Sleeping Beauty”) 

(story adapted from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale; 

music adapted from Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” ballet) 

(“I know you 

I walked with you once upon a dream 

I know you 

The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam 

Yes, I know it's true 

that visions are seldom all they seem 

But if I know you, I know what you'll do 

You'll love me at once 

the way you did once upon a dream”) 

“Opus One” (Mills Brothers) 

(Big Band/Swing—from 1940’s) 

(“I’m racking my brains to think of a name 

To give to this tune so Perry can croon 

And maybe old Bing will give it a fling 

And that’ll start everyone hummin’ the thing 

The melody’s dumb, repeat and repeat 

But if you can swing, it’s got a good beat 

And that’s the main thing to make it complete 

‘Cause everyone’s a-swinging today 

So we called it Opus One 

It’s not for Sammy Kaye, hey, hey, hey 

It’s Opus One, it’s got to swing that sway, baby! 

If Mr. Les Brown can make it renown 

And Ray Anthony’ll rock it for me 

There’s never a doubt, you’ll knock yourself out 

Whenever you can hear Opus One”) 

(instrumental) 

“Orange Blossom Special” 

(Old Time Country Fiddling) 

(possibly the most requested fiddle tune of all time; requires some fast fiddlin’) 

(“Look a-yonder comin', comin' down that railroad track 

Hey, look a-yonder comin', comin' down that railroad track 

It's the Orange Blossom Special, it’s a’ bringin' my baby back”)

“Over the Rainbow” 


(“Somewhere over the rainbow 

Skies are blue, 

And the dreams that you dare to dream 

Really do come true”) 

“Piano Lesson (If You Don’t Mind My Sayin’ So)” 


(“I know all about your standards, and if you don’t mind my sayin’ so 

There’s not a man alive who could hope to measure up 

to that blend’ a Paul Bunyan, Saint Pat, and Noah Webster 

You’ve concocted for yourself 

outta your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbornness, and your library full of books”) 

“Paris Waltz” (Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith and the Dixieliners) 

(Old Time Fiddle Tune) 

“Peg O’ My Heart” 

(Irish Ballad) 

(“Peg of my heart I love you 

Don't let us part I love you 

I always knew 

it would be you 

Since I heard your lilting laughter 

It's your Irish heart I'm after”) 

“The Perfect Nanny” (Jane and Michael Banks) 


(“You must be kind, you must be witty 

Very sweet and fairly pretty 

Take us on outings, give us treats 

Sing songs, bring sweets”) 

“Peter and the Wolf” (Composer: Sergei Prokofiev) [“It is a children’s story (with both music and text 

by Prokofiev), spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra.” (Wikipedia)] 


“Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57” (“Appassionata”) (Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven) 

(Performed by Valentina Lisitsa) 


“Prelude in G Minor (Op. 23, No. 5)” (Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff) (Performed by Valentina Lisitsa) 


“Prisoner of Love” (The Lester Young and Teddy Wilson Quartet) 

(Slow jazz instrumental—from classic 1956 album “Pres and Teddy”) 

“Puttin’ on the Ritz” 

(from Musical “Puttin’ on the Ritz”; Irving Berlin) 

(“Dressed up like a million dollar trooper 

Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper 

Super-duper 

Come, let's mix where Rockefellers 

Walk with sticks or "umberellas" 

In their mitts 

Puttin' on the Ritz”) 

“Rhapsody in Blue” (George Gershwin) 

(Classical/Jazz Piano—from 1920’s) 

“Ridgetop” (Jesse Colin Young) 


(“Well, I live on a ridgetop 

And, Lord knows, I like it just fine 

Where it's windy and foggy 

And quiet most all the time… 

…Yes, the hill that I live on is steep 

And the road's full of ruts 

And the people who live in the flatlands 

Think we folks are nuts 

But the ruts in my road and the curves 

Keep the tourists at bay 

And it's lonesome and peaceful 

And you know I like it that way”)

“Rockabye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” (Al Jolson) 

(Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“Rock a bye, your baby, 

with a Dixie melody 

When you croon, croon a little tune, 

from the heart of Dixie 

Just hang my cradle, mammy mine, 

right on that Mason-Dixon line 

Then swing it from Virginia, to Tennessee, 

with all the soul that's in ya!”) 

“Row, Row, Row Your Boat” 

(Children’s Song; often sung as a “round’—different voices starting at different times, 

and continuing….) 

(“Row, row, row your boat 

gently down the stream 

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily 

Life is but a dream”) 

“Russian Sailor’s Dance” (dance from ballet “The Red Poppy”) (Composer: Reinhold Gliere) 


“San Antonio Rose” (Tito Guizar) 


(“It was there I found, beside the Alamo 

Enchantment strange as the blue up above 

A moonlit pass-- that only she would know 

Romantico, San Antonio 

Moon in all your splendor 

Know only my heart 

Call back my Rose, Rose of San Antone 

Lips so sweet and tender 

Like petals falling apart 

Speak once again of my love”)

Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel) 

(Adaption of Traditional English Ballad) 

The Traditional English Ballad 

“The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform 

for him a series of impossible tasks, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her 

back…. (Many) suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis 

that it is a song about the Plague.” (Wikipedia)” 

(“Are you going to Scarborough Fair? 

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; 

Remember me to one who lives there, 

For once she was a true love of mine’) 

Simon and Garfunkel version (with anti-war lyrics) 

(from album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme”; released October 10, 1966) 

[“Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions) 

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) 

And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten) 

Then she'll be a true love of mine”] 

“Scarlet Ribbons” (Walter Brennan) 

(Story Song; Ballad—from 1950’s)) 

(“I peeked in to say good-night 

And then I heard my child in prayer 

‘And for me, some scarlet ribbons 

Scarlet ribbons for my hair’ 

All our town was closed and shuttered 

All the streets were dark and bare 

In our town, no scarlet ribbons 

Scarlet ribbons for her hair 

Through the night my heart was aching 

(but) just before the dawn was breaking 

I peeked in and on her bed 

In gay profusion lying there 

Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons 

Scarlet ribbons for her hair 

If I live to be a hundred 

I will never know from where 

Came those lovely scarlet ribbons 

Scarlet ribbons for her hair

“Side by Side” 

(Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

(“Oh! We ain't got a barrel of money; 

Maybe we're ragged and funny 

But we travel along, singing a song, 

Side by side 

Don't know what's comin' tomorrow; 

Maybe it's trouble and sorrow, 

But we'll travel along, sharin' our load, 

Side by side 

Through all kinds of weather, 

What if the sky should fall? 

Just as long as we're together, 

It doesn't matter at all 

When they've all had their quarrels and parted, 

We'll be just the same as we started, 

Just traveling along, singin' a song, 

Side by side”) 

“Sioux Indians” (Burl Ives) (Roger Welsch version accessible from Smithsonian Folkways website) 

(Western American Folk Song) (often sung acapella) 

(“I'll sing you a song, though it may be a sad one, 

of trials and troubles and where first begun 

I left my dear fam'ly, my friends and my home, 

to cross the wide mountains and deserts to roam… 

…We traveled three weeks till we come to the Platte, 

a-pitching our tents at the head of the flat 

We spread down our blankets on the green shady ground, 

while the mules and the horses were grazing around 

While taking refreshment, we heard a loud yell 

The whoops of Sioux Indians come up from the dell 

We sprang to our rifles with a flash in each eye; 

and says our brave leader, ‘We'll fight till we die’)

“Sister Suffragette” 


(“From Kensington to Billingsgate 

One hears the restless cries! 

From ev'ry corner of the land: 

"Womankind, arise!" 

Political equality and equal rights with men! 

Take heart! For Missus Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again! 

No more the meek and mild subservients we! 

We're fighting for our rights, militantly! 

Never you fear! 

So, cast off the shackles of yesterday! 

Walk shoulder to shoulder into the fray! 

Our daughters' daughters will adore us 

And they'll sign in grateful chorus 

‘Well done! Well done! 

Well done Sister Suffragette!’”) 

“Sixteen Going on Seventeen” 


[(Rolf) 

“You are 16 going on 17 

Baby its time to think 

Better beware 

Be canny and careful 

Baby you're on the brink” 

(Leisl) 

“I am 16 going on 17 

I know that I'm naive 

Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet 

And willingly I believe”] 

“Seventy Six Trombones” 


(“Seventy-six trombones led the big parade, 

with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand 

They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos, 

the cream of every famous band 

Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun, 

with a hundred and ten cornets right behind….”)

“Some Enchanted Evening” 

(from Musical “South Pacific”) 

(“Some enchanted evening 

Someone may be laughin', 

You may hear her laughin' across a crowded room 

And night after night, 

As strange as it seems 

The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams 

Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? 

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try”) 

“The Sound of Music” 


(“The hills are alive with the sound of music 

With songs they have sung for a thousand years 

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music 

My heart wants to sing every song it hears 

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds 

that rise from the lake to the trees 

My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies 

from a church on a breeze 

To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over 

stones on its way 

To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray 

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely 

I know I will hear what I've heard before 

My heart will be blessed with the sound of music 

And I'll sing once more”) 

“Stardust 

(Ballad—from 1920’s; one of the most recorded songs of the 20 th Century) 

(“Sometimes I wonder why I spend 

my lonely nights dreaming of a song 

The melody haunts my reverie 

and I am once again with you 

When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration 

But that was long ago and now my consolation 

is in the stardust of a song”)

“Sunrise, Sunset” 

(from Musical “Fiddler on the Roof”) 

[(Tevye) 

“Is this the little girl I carried? 

Is this the little boy at play?” 

(Golde) 

“I don't remember growing older 

When did they?” 

(Tevye) 

“When did she get to be a beauty? 

When did he grow to be so tall?” 

(Golde) 

“Wasn't it yesterday 

when they were small?” 

(Men) 

“Sunrise, sunset 

Sunrise, sunset 

Swiftly flow the days 

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers 

Blossoming even as we gaze” 

(Women) 

“Sunrise, sunset 

Sunrise, sunset 

Swiftly fly the years 

One season following another 

Laden with happiness and tears” 

“Swan Lake (Ballet Suite, Op. 20)” (Composer: Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky) 


“Sweet Adeline” 

(Barbershop Quartet) 

[refrain-“Sweet Adeline, (Sweet Adeline,) 

My Adeline, (My Adeline,) 

At night, dear heart, (At night, dear heart,) 

For you I pine (For you I pine) 

In all my dreams, (In all my dreams,) 

Your fair face beams. (Your fair face beams.) 

You're the flower of my heart, 

Sweet Adeline (Sweet A-de-line!)”]

“Sweet Georgia Brown” (Firehouse Five plus Two) 

(Dixieland Jazz—from 1920’s) 

“Tennessee Waltz” (Patti Page) 

(Country Music Waltz) 

(“I was dancin' with my darlin' 

To the Tennessee Waltz 

When an old friend I happened to see 

I introduced her to my loved one 

And while they were dancin' 

My friend stole my sweetheart from me 

I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz 

Now I know just how much I have lost 

Yes, I lost my little darlin' 

The night they were playing 

The beautiful Tennessee Waltz”) 

“Thank God I’m a Country Boy” (John Denver) 

(Contemporary Country Music) 

(“Well, life on the farm is kinda laid back 

Ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack 

It's early to rise, early in the sack 

Thank God I'm a country boy 

Wel, a simple kinda life never did me no harm 

A raisin' me a family and workin' on a farm 

My days are all filled with an easy country charm 

Thank God I'm a country boy”) 

“Thanks for the Memory” (Bob Hope and Shirley Ross) 

(Bob Hope’s signature song; ballad with many verse variations—from late 1930’s) 

(Bob Hope) 

(Shirley Ross) 

[“We who could laugh over big things 

were parted by only a slight thing. 

I wonder if we did the right thing 

Oh, well, that's life, I guess 

(I love your dress. 

Do you? 

It’s pretty.)

Thanks for the memory 

of faults that you forgave, of rainbows on a wave, 

And stockings in the basin when a fellow needs a shave, 

Thank you so much. 


of tinkling temple bells, Alma mater yells, 

and Cuban rum and towels from the very best hotels 

Oh how lovely it was 


of cushions on the floor, hash with Dinty Moore, 

That pair of gay pajamas that you bought and never wore 

(Say… by the way, whatever became of those pajamas? 

Huh? 

Huh?)] 

“That Lucky Old Sun” (Ray Charles) 


(“Good Lord up above, don’t you know that I’m pinin’? 

Tears all in my eyes 

Send down that cloud with the silver linin' 

Lift me to paradise! 

Show me that river, take me across, 

wash all my troubles away 

And like that lucky old sun, gimme nothin' to do, 

but roll around heaven all day”) 

“That Old Gang of Mine” (Cross and Healey) 

(Barbershop Quartet Song; Story Song) 

(From the song) 

(“I’ve got a longing way down in my heart 

for that old gang that has drifted apart 

They were the best friends that I ever had 

I never thought that I’d want them so bad 

Gee, but I’d give the world to see 

that old gang of mine….”)

(From the recitation) 

(“Last night near the lamppost, I finally stood 

On that same old corner, in the old neighborhood 

As I gazed at the houses, unchanged by the years 

In my throat came a lump, and my eyes filled with tears…. 

…But the war is over, and last night as I stood 

On that same old corner, in the old neighborhood 

I couldn’t help brushing a tear from my eye 

For I knew not a face in the crowd that went by 

Gone forever! are the pals that I love….”) 

“That Sunday, That Summer” 


(“If I had to choose just one day 

To last my whole life through 

It would surely be that Sunday 

The day that I met you 

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills 

Summer was a-coming in but fast 

Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills 

Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper 

‘Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her’ 

If I had to choose one moment 

To live within my heart 

It would be that tender moment 

Recalling how we started 

Darling, it would be when you smiled at me 

That way, that Sunday, that summer”) 

“That’s the Glory of Love” (Jimmy Durante) 


(“You've got to give a little, take a little, 

and let your poor heart break a little 

That's the story of, that's the glory of love 

You've got to laugh a little, cry a little, 

until the clouds roll by a little 

That's the story of, that's the glory of love

As long as there's the two of us, 

we've got the world and all it's charms 

And when the world is through with us, 

we've got each other's arms 

You've got to win a little, lose a little, 

yes, and always have the blues a little 

That's the story of, that's the glory of love. 

That's the story of, that's the glory of love”) 

“There’s No Business Like Show Business” 

(from Musical “Annie Get Your Gun”; Irving Berlin) 

(“Even with the turkey that you know will fold; 

you may be stranded out in the cold; 

still you wouldn’t change it for a sack of gold; 

Let’s go on with the show!”) 

“Till There Was You” 

(Love Song; from Musical “The Music Man”) 

(“There were bells on the hill 

But I never heard them ringing 

No, I never heard them at all 

Till there was you 

There were birds in the sky 

But I never saw them winging 

No, I never saw them at all 

Till there was you 

And there was music, 

And there were wonderful roses, 

They tell me, 

In sweet fragrant meadows of dawn, and dew 

There was love all around 

But I never heard it singing 

No, I never heard it at all 

Till there was you!”)

“Today I Started Lovin’ You Again” (Merle Haggard) 

(Contemporary Song; Country Ballad) 

(“Today I started loving you again 

I'm right back where I've really always been 

I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend 

And then today I started loving you again 

What a fool I was to think I could get by 

With only these few million tears I've cried 

I guess I should have known the worst was yet to come 

And the crying time for me had just begun”) 

“Trouble in Amen Corner” (Tex Ritter) 

(Recitation/Folk Story) 

(“It was a stylish congregation, you could see they'd been around 

And they had the biggest pipe organ of any church in town 

But over in the Amen Corner of that church sat Brother Ayer 

And he insisted every Sunday on singing in the choir 

His voice was cracked and broken; age had touched his vocal chords 

And nearly every Sunday he'd get behind and miss the words 

Well, the choir got so flustered the church was told in fine 

That Brother Ayer must stop his singing, or the choir was going to resign 

So the pastor appointed a committee, I think it was three or four 

And they got in their big fine cars and drove up to Ayer's door 

They found the choir's great trouble sittin' there in an old arm chair 

the summer's golden sunbeams lay upon his snow white hair….”) 

“The Ugly Duckling” (Danny Kaye) 

(from Musical “Hans Christian Andersen”) 

(“That poor little ugly duckling 

Went wandering far and near 

But at every place they said to his face 

Now get out, get out, get out of here 

And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack 

And a very unhappy tear

All through the wintertime he hid himself away 

Ashamed to show his face, afraid of what others might say 

All through the winter in his lonely clump of weeds 

Till a flock of swans spied him there and very soon agreed 

You’re a very fine swan indeed! 

A swan? Me a swan? Ah, go on! 

But they said yes, you’re a swan 

Go and take a look at yourself in the lake and you’ll see 

And he looked, and he saw, and he said 

I am a swan! Wheeeeeeee! 

I’m not such an ugly duckling…. “) 

“Until the Real Thing Comes Along” (Dixie Lee Crosby) 


(refrain) (“With all the words, dear, at my command 

I just can't make you understand 

I'll always love you, darling, come what may 

My heart is yours, what more can I say? 

I'd sigh for you, cry for you 

I'd pull the stars down from the skies for you 

If that isn't love, it'll have to do 

Until the real thing comes along”) 

“Variations Sur ‘Le Carnaval de Venise’” (Wynton Marsalis) [“The Carnival of Venice, is a folk 

tune popularly associated with the words ‘My hat, it has three corners.’" (Wikipedia)] 

(Polka in the background; and virtuoso trumpet improvisation in the foreground) 

“Virginia Reel” (with caller) 

(English Country Dance; Old Time Country Music; often used in square dances) 

(“Everybody forward and back 

Forward and back, one more time 

Right to your partner, round you go 

Left hand now, don’t be slow 

Forward, both hands around 

Do-si-do your partner 

Head couple, down the center 

Head back home 

Ready now—cast off 

Ladies right, gents left 

Head couple form an arch 

Join hands passing through”)

“Wabash Cannonball” (Carter Family) 

(Old Time Country Music) 

(Verse: 

“Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore 

She climbs th’ Clary mountain, o'r hills and by the shore 

Although she's tall and handsome, and she's known quite well by all 

She's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball” 

Refrain: 

“Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar 

As she glides along the woodland, o'r hills and by the shore 

She climbs th’Clary mountain, hear the merry hobos squall 

She glides along the woodland, the Wabash Cannonball”) 

“Waltz Across Texas” (Ernest Tubb) 

(Country Waltz) 

(Verse: 

“When we dance together, my world's in disguise; it's a fairyland tale that come true 

And when you look at me with those stars in your eyes 

I could waltz across Texas with you” 

Refrain: 

“Waltz across Texas with you in my arms, waltz across Texas with you 

Like a storybook ending I'm lost in your charms 

And I could waltz across Texas with you” 

Verse: 

“My heartaches and troubles are just up and gone, the moment that you come in view 

And with your hand in mine dear, I could dance on and on 

And I could waltz across Texas with you”) 

“Waltz of the Flowers (from “The Nutcracker Suite” Op. 71)” (Composer: Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky) 


“The Wells Fargo Wagon” 


(“Oho, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street 

Oh please let it be for me 

Oho, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street 

I wish, I wish I knew what it could be

I got a box of maple sugar on my birthday 

In March I got a gray mackinaw 

And once I got some grapefruit from Tampa 

Montgomery Ward sent me a bathtub and a crosscut saw 

Oho, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' now 

Is it a prepaid surprise or C.O.D.? 

It could be curtains 

Or dishes 

Or a double boiler 

Or it could be 

Yes it could be, yes you're right, it surely could be 

Somethin' special 

Somethin' very, very special now 

Just for me”) 

“Westphalia Waltz” (Tony Elman) 

(hammered dulcimer version; adapted from Eastern European folk song) 

“When Its Springtime in the Rockies” (Carson Robison and Frank Luther) 

(Country Ballad—Popular “Sheet Music Era” Song) 

Verse: 

(“The twilight shadows deepen into night, dear 

The city lights are gleaming on the snow 

I sit alone beside the cheery fire, dear 

I'm dreaming dreams from aw’fl long ago 

I fancy it is springtime in the mountains 

The flowers with their colors are ablaze 

And ev’ry day I hear you softly saying 

‘I'll wait until the springtime comes again’” 

Refrain: 

“When it's springtime in the Rockies 

I'll be coming back to you 

Little sweetheart of the mountains 

With your bonnie eyes of blue; 

Once again I'll say I love you 

While the birds sing all the day 

When it's springtime in the Rockies 

In the Rockies far away...”)

“When Sunny Gets Blue” (Kenny Rankin) 


(“When Sunny gets blue, her eyes get gray and cloudy 

Then the rain begins to fall 

Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, love is gone so what can matter? 

No sweet lovin' man comes to call 

When Sunny gets blue, she breathes a sigh of sadness 

Like the wind that stirs the trees 

Wind that sets the leaves to swayin' 

Like some violins are playin' 

Weird and haunting melodies 

People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile 

That's how she got her name 

Since that sad affair she's lost her smile, 

Changed her style 

Somehow she's not the same 

But memories will fade and pretty dreams will rise up 

Where her other dreams fell through 

Hurry, new love, hurry here 

kiss away each lonely tear 

hold her near when Sunny gets blue 

Hurry, new love, hurry here 

kiss away each lonely tear 

hold her near when Sunny gets blue”) 

“When the Saints Go Marchin’ In” 

(former gospel hymn transformed into a Dixieland Jazz Classic—from 1930’s) 

(“Oh, when the saints go marching in 

Oh, when the saints go marching in 

Oh, Lord, I want to be in that number 

When the saints go marching in”) 

“When They Ring Those Golden Bells for You and Me” 

(African-American Spiritual) 

(Verse: 

“There's a land beyond the river 

That they call the sweet forever 

And we only reach that shore by faith's decree

One by one we'll gain the portals 

There to dwell with the immortals 

When they ring the golden bells for you and me” 

Refrain 

“O don't you hear the bells a-ringing 

Don't you hear the angels singing 

It’s a glory hallelujah Jubilee 

In that far off sweet forever 

Just beyond the shining river 

When they ring the golden bells for you and me”) 

“When You Wish Upon a Star” (Linda Ronstandt) 

(Ballad—from 1940’s; from Disney animated movie “Pinnochio”) 

(“If your heart is in your dream 

No request is too extreme 

When you wish upon a star 

Like dreamers do 

Fate is kind 

She brings to those who love 

The sweet fulfillment of 

Their secret longing 

Like a bolt out of the blue 

Fate steps in and pulls you through 

When you wish upon a star 

Your dream comes true”) 

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Kenny Rankin) 

(Contemporary Song; Slow Jazz arrangement with accompanying strings) 

(“I don't know why nobody told you 

How to unfold your love 

I don't know why someone controlled you 

They bought and sold you 

I look at the world 

And I see it's still turning 

While my guitar gently weeps 

With every mistake 

We must surely be learning 

While my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why 

You were diverted 

You were perverted too 

And I don't know why 

You were inverted 

No one alerted you 

I look at you all 

See the love there that's sleeping 

While my guitar gently weeps”) 

“Wildwood Flower” (Carter Family) 

(Old Time Country Music; Ballad) 

(“Oh, he taught me to love him and promised a love 

And to cherish me over all others above 

How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell 

He left me no warning, no words of farewell”) 

“The Wreck of the Old 97” (Vernon Dalhart) 

(Old Time Country Music; Ballad) 

(“They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia, 

Saying, ‘Pete, you're way behind time 

This is not 38, but it's Old 97, 

You must put her into Spencer on time’ 

He looked 'round and said to his black greasy fireman, 

‘Just shovel in a little more coal, 

Then when we cross that White Oak Mountain 

You can watch Old 97 roll’ 

It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, 

And a line on a three-mile grade, 

It was on that grade that he lost his average, 

And you see what a jump that he made 

He was going down grade making 90 miles an hour, 

When his whistle broke into a scream, 

He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle, 

And a-scalded to death with steam”)

“Ya Got Trouble” 


(“Trouble with a Capital ‘T’, and that rhymes with ‘P’, and that stands for ‘POOL’”) 

(“…And all week long your River City 

Youth'll be frittern away, 

I say your young men'll be frittern! 

Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too! 

Get the ball in the pocket, 

Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled 

Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded. 

Never mind pumpin' any water 

'Til your parents are caught with the Cistern empty 

On a Saturday night and that's trouble, 

Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble. 

I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers, 

Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool 

Hall window after school, look, folks! 

Right here in River City. 

Trouble with a capital "T" 

And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!.... 

....People: 

Trouble, oh we got trouble, 

Right here in River City! 

With a capital "T" 

That rhymes with "P" 

And that stands for Pool, 

That stands for pool. 

We've surely got trouble! 

Right here in River City, 

Right here! 

Gotta figger out a way 

To keep the young ones moral after school! 

Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble... 

Harold: 

Mothers of River City! 

Heed the warning before it's too late! 

Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption! 

The moment your son leaves the house, 

Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? 

Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? 

A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? 

Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt. 

Billy's Whiz Bang? 

Are certain words creeping into his conversation? 

Words like 'swell?"

And 'so's your old man?" 

Well, if so my friends, 

Ya got trouble….”) 

“You’ll Never Know” (Dick Haymes with The Song Spinners) 

(Big Band Ballad, with special jazz-like syllable phrasing as background vocals—from 1950’s) 

(“You'll never know just how much I miss you 

You'll never know just how much I care 

And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you 

You ought to know, for haven't I told you so 

A million or more times? 

You went away and my heart went with you 

I speak your name in my every prayer 

If there is some other way to prove that I love you 

I swear I don't know how 

You'll never know if you don't know now 

(You went away and my heart went with you 

I speak your name in my every prayer) 

If there is some other way to prove that I love you 

I swear I don't know how 

You'll never know if you don't know now 

You'll never know if you don't know now”)

Music and Lyrics I Love - writingsofstefanpasti.net

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