The Quintessential-Volume 3

Billie Holiday The Quintessential-Volume 3 Lyrics
1.Who Loves You?

Davis / cootes

Who loves you
Ask yourself the question
Who loves you, sweetheart
And tel me who thinks of you
A million times a day
And who's blue and lonely, honey
When you're away

Say, who needs you
Needs you every minute
Who fell for you from the start
Oh who just longs for your caresses
You don't have to take three guesses
Who loves you, sweetheart


2.Pennies From Heaven

Arthur johnston / johnny burke

Oh every time it rains
It rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven
You'll find your fortune
Fallin' all over town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
It you want the things you love
You must have showers
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven
For you and me

The world was bright when you loved me
Sweet was the touch of your lips
The world went dark when you left me
And then there came a total eclipse
Nobody knows how cruel fate can be
How close together love and hate can be
Goodbye, just clean the slate for me
That's life i guess


3.That's Life I Guess

Lewis / peter derose

Sometimes i wonder
What's in store for me
Your love could open
Heaven's door to me
But you don't care a straw for me
That's life i guess

My days and nights
Are starting off with you
My sugar kisses taste like salt to you
But why should i find fault with you
That's life i guess.

The world was bright when you loved me
Sweet was the touch of your lips
The world went dark when you left me
And then there came a total eclipse
Nobody knows how cruel fate can be
How close together love and hate can be
Goodbye, just clean the slate for me
That's life i guess


4.I Can't Give You Anything But Love(Baby)

Dorothy fields / jimmy mchugh

I can't give you anything but love, baby
That's the only thing i've plenty of, baby
Dream a while scheme a while
We're sure to find
Happiness and i guess
All those things you've always pined for
Gee, i'd like to see you looking swell, baby
Diamond bracelets woolworth doesn't sell, baby
Till that lucky day
You know darned well, baby
I can't give you anything but love


5.One Never Knows, Does One?

Mack gordon / harry revel

One never knows, does one?
When love will come along
Then so suddenly life turns out to be a song

One never knows, does one?
The moment or the place
Then right before your eyes
Someone occupies your embrace

Someday look and you'll find
Two hearts were blest
Someday fate may be kind
Pray for the future
Hope for the best
One never knows, does one?

That's just the way it goes
All at once you hear
'hold me. caress me'
And then love may come
But when, one never knows


6.I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

Irving berlin

The snow is snowing
The wind is blowing
But i can weather the storm
Why do i care how much it may storm
I've got my love to keep me warm

I can't remember
A worse december
Just watch those icicles from
Why do i care if icicles form
I've got my love to keep me warm

Off with my overcoat
Off with gloves
I need no overcoat
I'm burning with love

My heart's on fire
The flame grows higher
So i will weather the storm
Why do i care how much it may storm
I've got my love to keep me warm


7.If My Heart Could Only Talk

Walter samuels / leonard whitcup / teddy powell

If my heart could only talk
Heaven would be mine
If my heart could only talk
Life would be divine
You would hear my song of love so tender
It would thrill you until you willingly surrender

If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'neath the starlight i would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could onlitalk

If my heart could only talk
Dreams would all come true
'neath the starlight i would walk
Hand in hand with you
I would have to seek your lips
Thrill you to your fingertips
If my heart could only talk


8.Please Keep Me In Your Dreams

Tot seymour / vee lawnhurst

Please keep me in your dreams
In your sweet dreams let me hold you
When through your window
The breeze comes swingin'
It's just bringin' this love song that i'm singin'
Please keep me in your dreams
My kiss it seems must have told you
My heart you'll borrow until tomorrow
So please keep me in your dreams


9.He Ain't Got Rhythm

Irving berlin

'cause he ain't got rhythm
Every night he sits in the house alone
He ain't got rhythm
Every night he s@ts there are wears a frown
He attracted some attention
When he found the fourth dimension
But he ain't got rhythm
So no one's with him
The loneliest man in town

Oh! lonely man is he
Bending over his books
His wife and family
Keep giving him dirty looks
'cause he ain't got rhythm
When they call him up
It's to call him down
With that daring aviator
He encircled the equator
But he ain't got rhythm
So no one's with him
Loneliest man in town


10.This Year's Kisses

Irving berlin

This year's crop of kisses
Don't seem as sweet to me
This year's crop just misses
What kisses used to be
This year's new romance
Doesn't seem to have a chance
Even helped by mr. moon above
This year's crop of kisses is not for me
For i'm still wearin' last year's love


11.Why Was I Born?

Oscar hammerstein ii / jerome kern

Why was i born
Why am i livin'
What do i get
What am i givin'
Why do i want for things
I dare not hope for
What can i hope for
I wish i knew
Why do i try
To draw you near me
Why do i cry
You never hear me
I'm a poor fool
But what can i do
Oh baby why was i born
To love you


12.I Must Have That Man

Dorothy fields / jimmy mchugh

Don't want my manny
I don't need a friend
My heart is broken
It won't ever mend
I ain't much carin'
Just where i will end
I must have that man

I'm like an oven
That's cryin' for heat
He treats me awful
Each time that we meet
It's just unlawful
How that boy can cheat
But i must have that man

He's hot as hades
A lady's not safe in his arms
When she's kissed
But i'm afraid that he's cooled off
And maybe i'm ruled off his list
I'll never be missed

I need that person much worse'n just bad
I'm falf alive and it's drivin' me mad
He's only human if he's to be had
I must have that man
Don't want my manny
I don't need a friend
My heart is broken
It won't ever mend
I ain't much carin'
Just where i will end
I must have that man

I'm like an oven
That's cryin' for heat
He treats me awful
Each time that we meet
It's just unlawful
How that boy can cheat
But i must have that man

He's hot as hades
A lady's not safe in his arms
When she's kissed
But i'm afraid that he's cooled off
And maybe i'm ruled off his list
I'll never be missed

I need that person much worse'n just bad
I'm half alive and it's drivin' me mad
He's only human if he's to be had
I must have that man


13.The Mood That I'm In

Abner silver / al sherman

Never dared to have your arms around me
Not that i considered it a sin
But tonight i want your arms around me
It's the mood that i'm in
Can it be the music that they're playin'
Or the magic of the violin
That intrigues my heart to obeyin'
It's the mood that i'm in
Maybe it's the cocktail that i'm sippin'
Tonight i'm so romantically inclined
So speak to me of love
In words so tender
Let the rhapsody of life begin
I could give my heart in sweet surrender
It's the mood i'm in


14.You Showed Me The Way

Ella fitzgerald / teddy mcrae / chick webb / green

You showed me the way
When i was someone in distress
A heart in search of happiness
You showed me the way

My sky was so gray
I never knew i'd feel a thrill
I couldn't dream a dream until
You showed me the way

The moment you found me
The shadows around me
Just disappeard from view
The world became rosy
Each corner so cozy
Darling, all because of you
You showed me the way
And if i've learned that love can be a paradise
For you and me
Here's all i can say
You showed me the way


15.Sentimental & Melancholy

Johnny mercer / richard whiting

Sentimental and melancholy
Whenever i think about you
It's only a mood,
A brief interlude
That's better described as just feeling blue

I suppose that it's just my folly
To keep it alive as i do
But it's a kind of sugar coated misery
And foolish as it seems
I thought i'd like to be
Sentimental and melancholy
Whenever i think about you


16.This Is My Last Affair

H. johnson

Can't you see
What love and romance have done to me
I'm not the same as i used to be
This is my last affair

Tragedy just seems to be the end of me
My happiness is misery
This is my last affair

Right from the start
You took my love
Tore my heart apart
Now there's nothing new to look forward to
My dreams won't come true

So i'll make a vow, make a vow
No more to love's line will i bow
I cross my heart and feel it now
This is my last affair