Blue Moon - Billie Holiday

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- words by lorenz hart, music by richard rodgers

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon, you knew just what i was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone i really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper, "please adore me"
And when i looked, the moon had turned to gold

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Billie Holiday - DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME

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Do nothing till you hear from me
Pay no attention to what's said
Why one should tear the seam of anyone's dream
Is over my head

Do nothing till you hear from me
At least consider our romance
If you should take the word of others you've heard
I haven't a chance

True, I've been seen with someone new
But does that mean that I'm untrue?
While we're apart, the words in my heart
Reveal how I feel about you

Some kiss may cloud my memory
And other arms may hold a thrill
But please do nothing till you hear it from me
And you never will!

Billie Holiday - Trav'lin' Light

Billie Holiday - Trav'lin' Light
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I'm travellin' light
Because my man has gone
And from now on
I'm travellin' light
He said, "Goodbye"
And took my heart away
So from today
I'm travellin' light

No one to see
I'm free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
But until then
I'm travellin' light

Billie Holiday - The Man I Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJMTSaAl8g&feature=related

Someday he'll come along
The man I love
And he'll be big and strong
The man I love
And when he comes my way
I'll do my best
To make him stay

He'll look at me and smile
I'll understand
And in a little while
He'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both
Won't say a word

Maybe
I shall meet him Sunday
Maybe monday, maybe not
Still I'm sure
To meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday
Will be my good news day

He'll build a little home
Just meant for two
From which I'd never roam
Who would, would you?
And so all else above
I'm waiting
For the man I love

These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday

‎(feat. Dave Koz)

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumblin' words that told you what my heart meant
A fairground's painted swings
These foolish things remind me of you

You came, you saw, you conquered me
When you did that to me
I knew somehow this had to be

The winds of March that make my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings but who's to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things remind me of you

The scent of smouldering leaves the wail of steamers
Two lovers on the street who walk like dreamers
Oh how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

How strange, how sweet, to find you still
These things are dear to me
They seem to bring you so near to me

The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations
Silk stockings thrown aside dance invitations
Oh how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
Remind me of you
Remind me of you

Billie Holiday - Tenderly

Billie Holiday - Tenderly


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The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and I came wandering by
And lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York

Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York
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It's time to end my holiday and bid the country a hasty farewell. 
So on this gray and melancholy day, I'll move to a Manhattan hotel.
I'll dispose of my rose-colored chattels and prepare for my share of adventures and battles,
Here on the twenty-seventh floor looking down on the city I hate and adore!
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
Autumn in New York, it spells the thrill of first-nighting.
Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel; they're making me feel I'm home.
It's autumn in New York that brings the promise of new love. Autumn in New
York is often mingled with pain.
Dreamers with empty hands may sigh for exotic lands;
it's autumn in New York;
it's good to live again.

Billie Holiday - Everything Happens to me

Billie Holiday - Everything Happens to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve3uJxMiIDw

Black cats creep across my path
Until I'm almost mad
I must have 'roused the devil's wrath
'Cause all my luck is bad
I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains
I try to give a party and the guy upstairs complains
I guess I'll go thru life kust catchin colds and missin' trains

Everything happens to me
I never miss a thing
I've had the measels and the mumps
And every time I play an ace
My partner always trumps
Guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps

Everything happens to me
At first my heart tho't you could break this jinx for me
that love would turn the trick to end despair
But know I just can't fool this head that thinks for me
I've mortgaged all my castlesin the air
I've telegraphed and phoned
I send an 'Airmail Special' too
Your answer was 'Goodbye'
And there was even postage due
I fell in love just once
And then it had to be with you

Everything happens to me

Billie Holiday - The Man I Love

Billie Holiday - The Man I Love

Someday he'll come along

The man I love

And he'll be big and strong

The man I love

And when he comes my way

I'll do my best to make him stay

He'll look at me and smile

I'll understand

Then in a little while

He'll take my hand

And though it seems absurd

I know we both won't say a word

Maybe I shall meet him Sunday

Maybe Monday, maybe not

Still I'm sure to meet him one day

Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day

He'll build a little home

That's meant for two

From which I'll never roam

Who would, would you

And so all else above

I'm dreaming of the man I love

Billie Holiday - Come Rain Or Come Shine

Billie Holiday - Come Rain Or Come Shine

I'm gonna love you
Like nobody's loved you
Come rain or come shine
High as a mountain
And deep as a river
Come rain or come shine

I guess when you met me
It was just one of those things
But don' t ever bet me
Cause I'm gonna be true
If you let me

You're gonna love me
Like nobody's loved me
Come rain or come shine
Happy together, unhappy together
And won't it be fine

Days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in, or we're out of the money
But I'm with you always
I'm with you rain or shine

I'm gonna love you
Like nobody's loved you
Come rain or come shine
High as a mountain
Deep as a river
Come rain or come shine

I guess when you met me
It was just one of those things
But don't ever bet me
Cause I'm gonna be true
If you let me

You're gonna love me
Like nobody's loved me
Come rain or come shine
Happy together, unhappy together
And won't it be fine

Days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in, or we're out of the money
But I'll love you always
I'm with you rain or shine

Rain or shine

Billie Holiday - All of me

Billie Holiday - All of me

All of me

Why not take all of me?

Can't you see?

I'm no good without you

Take my lips

I want to lose them

Take my arms

I'll never use them

Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry

How can I go on, dear, without you?

You took the part that once was my heart

So, why not take all of me?

All of me

Why not take all of me?

Can't you see?

I'm no good without you

Take my lips

I want to lose them

Take my arms

I'll never use them

Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry

How can I go on, dear, without you?

You took the best

So, why not take the rest?

Baby, take all of me.

Billie Holiday - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

DO NOTHIN' TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME 
Billie HolidayDuke Ellington / Bob Russell

Some-one told some-one and some-one told you
But they wouldn't hurt you, not much,
Since ev'ryone spread the story
With his own little personal touch.

Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Pay no attention to what's said
Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream is over my head.
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
At least consider our romance
If you should take the word of others you've heard
I haven't a chance
True I've been seen with someone new
But does that mean that I'm untrue?
When we're apart the words in my heart reveal how I feel about you.
Some kiss may cloud my memory
And other arms may hold a thrill
But please do nothin' till you hear it from me
And you never will.

Billie Holiday - The Blues Are Brewin

Billie Holiday - The Blues Are Brewin


When the moon's kinda dreamy
Starry eyed and dreamy
And nights are luscious and long
If you're kinda lonely
Then nothin' but the blues are brewin'
The blues are brewin'

When the wind through the window
Blows across your pillow
And tells you sleepin' is wrong
If love goes a thirsting
Till you feel like bursting
Then nothing but the blues are brewin'
The blues are brewin'

Suppose you want somebody
But you ain't got nobody
You only get a gleam in your eyes
Till somebody's found you
And put their lovin' arms around you
You got the feelin' you want to die

But when the Lord up above you
Send's someone to love you
The blues are something you loose
You're so busy doing
The things that you're doing
That love ain't got no time
For brewin' the blues 

Billie Holiday - The Very Thought of You

Billie Holiday - The Very Thought of You

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The very thought of you and I forget to do

The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do

I'm living in a kind of daydream

I'm happy as a king

And foolish though it may seem

To me that's everything

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you

You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in stars above

It's just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you

You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower

Your eyes in stars above

It's just the thought of you

The very thought of you, my love

Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By

Billie Holiday - As Time Goes By

You must remember this

A kiss is still a kiss

A sigh is just a sigh

The fundamental things apply

As time goes by

And when two lovers woo

They still say I love you

On that you can rely

No matter what the future brings

As time goes by

Moonlight and lovesongs

Never out of date

Hearts filled with passion

Jealousy and hate

Woman needs man

And man must have his mate

That no one can deny

It's still the same old story

A fight for love and glory

A case of do or die

Though I will always welcome lovers

As time goes by

Moonlight and lovesongs

Never out of date

Hearts filled with passion

Jealousy and hate

Woman needs man

And man must have his mate

That no one can deny

It's still the same old story

A fight for love and glory

A case of do or die

Though I will always welcome lovers

As time goes by

Billie Holiday - You Don't Know What Love Is

You Don't Know What Love Is

"You don't know what love is

'Til you've learned the meaning of the blues

Until you've loved a love you've had to lose

You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt

Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost

Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost

You don't know what love is

Do you know how lost I've been

At the thought of reminiscing

And how lips that taste of tears

Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

(Music)

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

What Love Is

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Até que tenha aprendido o significado do blues

Até que você ame um amor que tinha que perder

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Você não sabe o quanto os lábios doem

Até que você beije e então tenha que pagar o preço

Até que você tenha apostado o seu coração e descoberto que perdeu

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Você sabe o quanto o coração teme?

As lembranças

E como lábios que provam lágrimas

Perdem o desejo por beijar novamente

Você não sabe o quanto o coração arde

Pelo amor que não pode viver, mas também nunca morre

Até que você tenha passado cada madrugada em claro

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Você não sabe o quanto o coração arde

Pelo amor que não pode viver, mas também nunca morre

Até que você tenha passado cada madrugada em claro

Você não sabe o que é o amor

Billie Holiday - Don't Explain

Don't Explain

Billie Holiday

Hush now, don't explain
Just say you'll remain
I'm glad your back, don't explain

Quiet, don't explain
What is there to gain
Skip that lipstick
Don't explain

You know that I love you
And what endures
All my thoughts of you
For I'm so completely yours

Cry to hear folks chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, don't matter
When you're with me, sweet

Hush now, don't explain
You're my joy and pain
My life's yours love
Don't explain

Billie Holiday - One for my Baby

Johnny mercer / harold arlen

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

Billie Holiday - Tenderly

Billie Holiday - Tenderly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eSfb908m_d4


The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and I came wandering by
And lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

Billie Holiday - Please Tell Me Now

Billie Holiday - Please Tell Me Now


Please tell me now
How much you care
Before we say good night, my dear

You'll never say
That you'll be mine
Why keep me waiting?
Please tell me now

Day and night I'm wondering
Do you really care?
Must I go on wondering
About this love affair?

My heart will cry
And that's no lie
Don't keep me waiting
Please tell me now