Over The Rainbow

Harold Arlen Over The Rainbow Lyrics
1.You Got Me In Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea


2.Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive

Gather 'round me, everybody
Gather 'round me, while i preach some
Feel a sermon coming on here
The topic will be sin
And that's what i'm agin'
If you wanna hear my story
Then settle back and just sit tight
While i start reviewing
The attitude of doing right

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween

You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, noah in the ark,
What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said, we better

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween


3.As Long As I Live

Maybe i can't live to love you as long as i want to.
Life isn't long enough baby, but i can love you as long as i
live.

Maybe i can't give you diamonds and things like i want to,
But i can promise you, baby, i'm gonna want to as long as i
live.

I never cared, but now i'm scared, i won't live long enough.
That's why i wear my rubbers when it rains and eat an apple
every day then see
The doctor anyway.

What if i can't live to love you as long as i want to.
Long as i promise you, baby, i'm gonna love you as long i live.


I'll even wear long underwear, when winter breezes blow
I'm gonna take good care of me because, a sneeze or two might
mean the flu,
And that would never never do

What if i can't live to love you as long as i want to.
Long as i promise you, baby, i'm gonna love you as long i live.
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4.Blues In The Night(My Mama Done Tol' Me)

My mama done tol' me, when i was in knee-pants
My mama done tol' me, ' son a woman'll sweet talk'
And
Give ya the big eye, but when the sweet talkin's done
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll
Leave ya to sing the blues in the night

Now the rain's a-fallin', hear the train's a-callin,
'whooee!'
(my mama done tol' me) hear dat lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross
the trestle, 'whooee!'
(my
Mama done tol' me) a-whooee-ah-whooee ol' clickety-clack's
a-echoin' back th' blues in the night
The
Evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin' and the moon'll hide
its light when you get the blues in
The night
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing the saddest kind o' song,
he knows things are wrong,
And he's right

From natchez to mobile, from memphis to st. joe, wherever the
four winds blow
I been
In some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one
thing i know
A woman's a two-face, a
Worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night

My mama was right, there's blues in


5.Bud's Won't Bud


6.Down With Love


7.Get Happy

Pack up your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing hallelujah, c'mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day

The sun is shinin', c'mon get happy
The lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout hallelujah, c'mon get happy
We're goin' to the promised land

We're headin' 'cross the river
Gonna wash our sins in the tide
It's all so peaceful
On the other side

Forget your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing hallelujah, c'mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day

The sun is shinin', c'mon get happy
The lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout hallelujah, c'mon get happy
We're goin' to the promised land

We're headin' 'cross the river
Wash our sins away in the tide
It's all so peaceful
On the other side


We're headin' 'cross the river
Wash our sins away in the tide
It's all so peaceful
On the other side

Forget your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase your cares away!!
Sing hallelujah, c'mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day


8.Hittin' The Bottle


9.I've Got The World On A String

I've got the world on a string
I'm sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life - i'm in love

I've got a song that i sing
I can make the rain go
Any time i move my finger
Lucky me, can't you see - i'm in love

Life's a wonderful thing
As long as i hold the string
I'd be a silly so-and-so
If i should ever let her go


10.Ill Wind(You're Blowing Me No Good)

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 misleadin' the sunshine i'm needin'
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)


You're only misleadin' the sunshine i'm needin'
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)

Blow, ill wind, blow.


11.It's Only A Paper Moon

Music:harold arlen.
Lyrics:e.y. (yip) harburg

I never feel a thing is real
When i'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm
You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it

Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a barnum and bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me


12.I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to feel low-down

I gotta right to hang around

Down around the river

A certain gal in this old town

Keeps draggin' my poor (old) heart around

All i see, for me is - misery

I gotta right to sing the blues

I gotta right to moan and sigh

I gotta right to sit and cry

Down around the river

I know the deep blue sea

Will soon be callin' me

It must be love - say what you choose

I gotta right to sing the blues


13.Kickin' The Gong Around

it was down in chinatown,
All the cokies laid around,
Some were high and some were mighty low;
There were millions on the floor
When a knock came on the door,
And there stood old smoky joe.

He was sweatin', cold and pale,
He was lookin' for his frail,
He was broke and all his junk ran out;
Nobody made a sound,
As he stood and looked around,
And then you hear old smoky shout:

Saying, 'tell me where is minnie?
My poor minnie!
Has she been here,
Kicking the gong around?'

'if you don't know minnie,
She's tall and skinny,
She gets her pleasure
Kicking the gong around!'


'just tell her smoky joe
Was here and had to go.'
And as he departed,
The curtains parted,
And there stood minnie
Kicking the gong around!


14.Let's Fall In Love

We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
I have a feeling, it's a feeling i'm concealing - i don't know
why
It's just a mental, incidental, sentimental - alibi
But i adore you, so strong for you
Why go on stalling, i am falling, love is calling - why be shy
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love
Our hearts are made of it, let's take a chance
Why be afraid of it
Let's close our eyes
And make our own paradise
Little we know of it, still we can try
To make a go of it
We might have been meant for each other
To be or not to be, let our hearts discover
Let's fall in love
Why shouldn't we fall in love
Now is the time for it, while we are young
Let's fall in love


15.Let's Put Our Heads Together


16.Now I Know


17.One For My Baby(And One More For The Road)

It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place
Except you and me
So set 'em' up joe, i got a little story
I think you should know
We're drinking my friend, to the end
Of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
I know the routine, put another nickel
In the machine
I feel kind of bad, can't you make the music
Easy and sad
I could tell you a lot, but it's not
In a gentleman's code
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
You'd never know it, but buddy i'm a kind of poet
And i've got a lot of things i'd like to say
And if i'm gloomy, please listen to me
Till it's talked away
Well that's how it goes, and joe i know your gettin'
Anxious to close
Thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn't mind
My bending your ear
But this torch that i found, it's gotta be drowned
Or it's gonna explode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road


18.Over The Rainbow

somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a place that i heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day i'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't i?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why
Oh why can't i?


19.Public Melody No. 1


20.Raisin' The Rent


21.Stormy Weather(Keeps Rainin' All The Time)

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all of the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All i do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything i had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around,
Heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around
And i'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down
Blinding every hope i had
This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad

Love, love, love, love
This misery will be the end of me

(bridge)

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All i do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything i had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and i ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time


22.That Old Black Magic

That old black magic has me in its spell
That old black magic that you weave so well
Icy fingers up
And down my spine
The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine

The same old tingle that i feel
Inside
When that elevator starts its ride
Down and down i go, round and round i go
Like a leaf that's
Caught in the tide

I should stay away but what can i do
I hear your name, and i'm aflame
Aflame with
Such a burning desire
That only your kiss can put out the fire

You are the lover that i've waited for

The mate that fate had me created for
And every time your lips meet mine

Baby down and down i go,
All around i go
In a spin, loving the spin that i'm in
Under that old black magic called love


23.Two Blind Loves


24.When The Sun Comes Out

When the sun comes out
And that rain stops beatin' on my window pane
When the sun comes out
There'll be bluebirds 'round my door, singin' like they did
before

That ol' storm broke out
And my man/gal walked off and left me in the rain
Though he's/she's gone i doubt
If he'll/she'll stay away for good,i'd stop livin' if he/she
should

Love is funny, it's not always peaches, cream and honey
Just when everything looked bright and sunny
Suddenly the cyclone came, i'll never be the same

Til that sun comes out
And the rain stops beatin' on my window pane
If my heart holds out
Let it rain and let it pour, it may not be long before
There's a knockin' at my door
Then you'll know the one i love walked in
When the sun comes out