Billie Holiday Compact Jazz[Billie Holiday]

1.A Fine Romance

Dorothy fields ／ jerome kern

A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you won't nestle
A fine romance, you won't wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I haven't got a chance
This is a fine romance

A fine romance, my good fellow
You take romance, i'll take jello
You're calmer than the seals
In the arctic ocean
At least they flap their fins
To express emotion
A fine romance with no quarrels
With no insults and all morals
I've never mussed the crease
In your blue serge pants
I never get the chance
This is a fine romance


2.Cheek To Cheek

Irving berlin

Heaven, i'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that i can hardly speak
And i seem to find the happiness i seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven, i'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

＊：
Oh i love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh i love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But i don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek

＊＊：
Dance with me, i want my arms about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through
To heaven, i'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that i can hardly speak
And i seem to find the happiness i seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

(repeat ＊)

(repeat ＊＊)


3.Gone With The Wind


4.I Don't Want To Cry Anymore


5.I Get A Kick Out Of You

Cole porter

My story is much too sad to be told,
But practically ev'rything leaves me totally cold.
The only exception i know is the case
Where i'm out on a quiet spree
Fighting vainly the old ennui
And i suddenly turn and see
Your fabulous face.

I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why should it be true
That i get a kick out of you？

Some get a kick from cocaine.
I'm sure that if i took even one sniff
That would bore me terrific'ly too,
Yet i get a kick out of you.

I get a kick ev'rytime i see
You're standing there before me.
I get a kick though it's clear to me
You obviously don't adore me.

I get no kick in a plane.
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do,
Yet i get a kick out of you.


6.I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

Harold arlen ／ ted koehler

I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to moan inside
I gotta right to sit and cry
Down around the river
A certain man in this little town

Keeps draggin' my poor heart around
All i see for me is misery

I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to moan inside
I gotta right to sit and cry
Down around the river
A certain man in this little town

Soon that deep blue sea
Will be callin' me
It must be love say what you choose
I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to sing the blues

I gotta right to moan and cry
I gotta sit and sigh

Down around the river
Soon that deep blue sea
Will be callin' me

It must be love say what you choose
I gotta right to sing the blues

There's nothing left for me
I'm full of misery
I gotta right to sing the blues


7.I Hadn't Anyone Till You

Ray noble

I hadn't anyone till you
I was a lonely one till you
I used to lie awake and wonder if there could be,
A someone in the wide world just made for me
Now i see i had to save my love for you
I never gave my love till you
And thru my lonely heart demanding it
Cupid took a hand in it
I hadn't anyone till you.


8.Ill Wind

Harold arlen ／ ted koehler

Blow, ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good
No good

Go, ill wind, go away
Skies are oh so gray
Around my neighborhood
And that's no good

＊
You're only misleading
The sunshine i'm needing
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up
With troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere
When love's to blame

So, ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good
No good

(repeat from ＊)

Ill wind


9.Nice Work If You Can Get It

George and ira gershwin

The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that is'nt necessarily sunny
Likewise the man who works for fame
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is for girl and boys meant
Fall in love you won't regret it
That''s the best work of all if you can get it

Holding hands at midnight
'neath the starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Scrolling with the one girl
Sighing after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try

Just imagen someone waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for more
Loving one who loves you
And taking that vow
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if
Won't you tell me how？


10.Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone


11.Sophisticated Lady

Duke ellington ／ mitchell parish ／ irving mills

They say into your early life romance came
And this heart of yours burned a flame
A flame that flickered one day and died away
Then, with disilution deep in your eyes
You learned that fools in love soon grow wise
The years have changed you, somehow
I see you now
Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant
Diamonds shining, dancing,
dining with some man in a restaurant
Is that all you really want？
No, sophisticated lady,
I know, you miss the love you lost long ago
And when nobody is nigh you cry