Free and easy

That's my style

Howdy-do me?

Watch me smile

But fare-the-well me

After a while

Cause I gotta roam

And any place I hang my hat is home

Sweetenin' water

Cherry wine

Thank you kindly

Suits me fine

Kansas City even Carolina

That's my honeycomb

'Cause any place I hang my hat is home

Birds roostin' in a tree

Pick up and go

And the goin' proves

That's how it oughta to be

I pick up too when the spirit moves me

Cross the river

'Round the bend

Howdy stranger?

So long friend!

There's a voice in the lonesome wind

Keeps a whispering roam

I'm going where a welcome mat is

No matter where that is

Cause any place I hang my hat is home

 

Written by J. Mercer and H. Arlen

Right as the rain

That falls from above

So real, so right as our love

It came like the spring

That breaks through the snow

I can't say what it may bring

I only know...

I only know...

It's right to believe

Whatever gave your eyes this glow

Whatever gave my heart this song

Can't be wrong

It's right as the rain

That falls from above

And fills the world

With a blue of our love

As rain must fall

And day must dawn

This love...

This love...

Must go on.

 

Written by E.Y. Harbung and H. Arlen

Down with love

With flowers and rice and shoes

Down with love

The root of all midnight blues

Down with things

That give you that well-known pain

Take that moon

Wrap it in cellophane

Down with love let's liquidate

All it's friends

Like moon,

June, roses

And rainbow's ends

Down with songs

That mourn about night and day

Down with love

Take it away, away

Take it away, take it away

Give it back to the birds

To bees and the Viennese

Down with eyes romantic and stupid

Down with sighs, down with cupid

Brother let's stuff that dove

Down with love

Down with love

Liquidate all it's friends

Like moon,

June, roses

And rainbow's ends

Down with song

That mourns about night and day

You are the one...

And I don't stand a chance

With a ghost like you

Ah, the promised kiss of Spring is here...

What does my heart go dancin' overhead...

On the ceiling near my bed...

We go now...

Because I talk to the trees,

But they don't listen to me

I tell them:

You say either

- I say i-ther

You say neither,

I say neither

- I say ni-ther

Either, i-ther

Neither, ni-ther

Let's call the whole thing off!

Take it away, take it away

Give it back to the birds

And the bees and the Viennese

Down with eyes romantic and stupid

Down with sighs, down with cupid

Brother let's stuff that dove

Down, down, down

I go on round and round

I go in a spin

Hey, in the spin, I'm in!

What is this thing...

What is this thing called love?

 

Written by E.Y. Harburg and H. Arlen

Who will buy

This wonderful morning?

Such a sky you never did see

Who will tie it all with a ribbon?

And put it in a box for me

So I can sit at my leisure

Whenever things go wrong

And I can keep it as a treasure

To last my whole life long.

Who will buy this wonderful feeling?

I'm so high I swear

I could fly, me oh my!

I don't want to lose it

So what amI to do

To keep the sky so blue?

There must be someone who will buy!

 

Written by L. Bart

When the sun comes out

And the rain stops beating

On my window pane

When the sun comes out

There'll be blue birds 'round my door

Singing like they did before

That old storm broke out

And my man walked off

Left me in the rain

Though he's gone I doubt

If he'll stay away for good

I'd stop living if he should

Love is funny,

It's not always peaches, cream and honey

Just when everything seemed

Bright and sunny

Suddenly the cyclone came

I'll never be the same

Till the sun comes out

And the rain stops beating on my window pane

If my heart holds out

Let it rain, let it pour

It may not be long before

There's a knocking at my door

Then you'll know the one I love walked in

When the sun comes out...

And the rain stops beating on my window pane

If my heart holds out

Let it rain, let it pour

It may not belong before

There's a knocking at my door

Then you'll know the one I love walked in

When the sun comes out...

 

Written by T. Koehler and H. Arlen

Gotta move, gotta get out

Gotta leave this place,

Gotta find some place

Some other place,

Some brand new place

Some place where each face that I see

Won't be staring back at me

Telling me what to be and how to be it

Some place where I can just be me

Gotta move, gotta get out

Gotta leave this town,

Gotta find some town

Some big new town,

Some bright new town

Some new town with new places,

New lights

And most of all some new faces

Gotta find a man, a new man

A man who won't worry 'bout where I go

A man who wont ask

How I learned what I know

A man who will know that you've

Gotta be free

A man who will know

When to just let me be

Gotta move, gotta get out

Gotta change my life,

Gotta find my life

I'll find me a place in

Some new town and baby

And when I find me that place,

Then maybe I gotta live this town,

Gotta leave this town,

gotta leave this place

Gotta find a new man...

Gotta move!

 

Written by P. Matz

For those who fancy coloring books

As certain people do

Here's a new one for you

A most unusual coloring book

The kind you never see

Crayons ready, very well

Begin to color me

These are the eyes that watched him

As he walked away

Color them gray

This is the heart that thought

He would always be true

Color it blue

These are the arms that held him

And touched him then lost him somehow

Color them empty now

These are the beads I wore

Until she came between

Color them green

This is the room I sleep in

Walk in and weep in

Hiding that nobody sees

Color it lonely, please

This is the man

The one I depended upon

Color him gone...

 

Written by F. Ebb and J. Kander

I don't care much

Go or stay

I don't care very much

Either way

Hearts grow hard

On a windy street

Lips grow cold

With the rent to meet

So if you kiss me

If we touch

Warning's fair,

I don't care very much

I don't care much

Go or stay

I don't care

Very much

Either way

Words sound false

When your coat's too thin

Feet don't waltz

When the roof caves in

So if you kiss me

If we touch

Warning's fair

I don't care

Very much...

 

Written by F. Ebb and J. Kander

Sky was blue and high above

The moon was new and so was love

This eager heart of mine was singing

Lover, where can you be

It came at last love had its day

The day is past, you've gone away

This eager heart of mine is singing

Lover, come to me

I remember every little thing we used to to

I'm lonely

Every road I walked alone,

I walked along with you

No wonder I am lonely

The sky was blue, the night is cold

The moon is new, but love is old

And while I'm waiting here

This heart of mine is singing

Lover... come to me

When I remember every little thing we used to do

Oh...I'm lonely

Every road I walked alone

I walked along with you

No wonder I am lonely

The sky was blue, the night is cold

The moon is new, but love is old

And while I'm standing here

This heart of mine is singing

Lover, lover, get here to me.

Now!

 

Written by Sigmund Romberg and O.Hammerstein II

I wanted the music to play on forever

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

I wanted the clown to be constantly clever

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

I bought me blue ribbons to tie up my hair,

But I couldn't find anybody to care;

The merry-go-round is beginning to slow now

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

The music has stopped and the children must go now

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

Oh, mother dear,

I know you're very proud,

Your little girl and kingdom is so far above the crowd;

No, daddy dear,

You never could have known

That I would be successful, yet so very much alone...

I wanted to live in a carnival city,

With laughter and love everywhere;

I wanted my friends to be thrilling and witty,

I wanted somebody to care;

I found my blue ribbons all shiny and new

But now I discover them no longer blue...

The merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me,

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

There's nothing to win

And there's no one to want me

Have I stayed too long at the fair?

 

Written by B. Barnes

Like a straw in the wind

I go whirling around

Like a bird who's just learned to fly

Feet are not on the ground

Drift from pillar to post

So helplessly

What I wanted the most

Winds up a ghostly memory

My man is gone

And when your man is gone

Your world just falls apart

Hmm... nothing you try to do

Helps you to comfort your heart

Don't yo' heart get all the bricks

Where your hopes come unpinned

Trouble steps in and make

You feel like a straw in the wind

Like a straw in the wind

Free and easy

That's my style

I go whirling around

Howdy-do me?

Watch me smile

Like a bird who's just learned to fly

Fare-the-well me after a while

Feet are not on the ground

So I gotta roam

Drift from pillar to post

Sweetenin' water

Cherry wine

So helplessly

Thank you kindly suits me fine

What I wanted the most

Winds up a ghostly memory

My man is gone

And when your man is gone

Your world just falls apart

So any place

I hang my hat is home

Birds roostin' in a tree

Pick up and go

And the goin' proves

That's how it oughta be I pick up too

When the spirit moves me

Cross the river, run the bend

Howdy stranger?

So long friend

There is a voice in the lonesome wind

I hear a-whisperin' roam

I'm goin' where a welcome mat is,

No matter where that is...

Cause any place I hang my hat is home!

 

Written by H. Arlen