Blossom Dearie

Ask me how do I feel,
now that we're cozy and clinging
Well, sir, all I can say is
if I were a bell, I'd be ringing
From the moment we met tonight
that's the way I just gotta behave
Boy, if I were a lamp I'd light
and if I were a banner, I'd wave
Ask me how do I feel,
little me with my quiet upbringing
Well, sir, all I can say is
if I were a gate, I'd be swinging
And if I were a season, I'd surely be spring
And if I were a bell, I'd go
ding-dong-ding-dong-ding

My height, just average, my weight just average,
And my IQ is, like you'd estimate, just average
But evidently, he does not agree
Consequently, if I seem at scene

It amazes me
It simply amazes me
What he sees in me
dazzles me,
dazes me
That I've learned to clip my wings
and soften my ways
these are ordinary things,
unworthy of praise

Yet he praises me
just knowing I try for him
when so many would
if they could
die for him
i'm the one who's worldly wise
and nothing much fazes me
but to see me in his eyes
it just amazes me

I'll take Manhattan,

the Bronx, and Staten Island too

It's lovely going through

the zoo



It's very fancy

on old Delancey Street, you know

The subway charms us so

when balmy breezes blow

to and fro



And tell me what street

compares with Mott Street in July

Sweet pushcarts gently

gliding by



The great big city's a wondrous toy

Made for a girl and boy

We'll turn Manhattan

into an isle of joy



Tell me what street

compares with Mott Street in July

Sweet pushcarts gently

gliding by



The great big city's a wondrous toy

Made for a girl and boy

We'll turn Manhattan

into an isle of joy



I'll take Manhattan

I'll take Manhattan

Once upon a summertime, if you recall

We stopped beside a little flower stall

A bunch of bright forget-me-nots

Was all I'd ever let you buy me



Once upon a summertime just like today

We laughed the happy afternoon away

And stole a kiss at every street cafe



You were sweeter than the blossoms on the tree

I was as proud as any girl could be

As if the mayor had offered me the key

to Paris



Now another winter time has come and gone

The pigeons feeding in the square have flown

But I remember when the vespers chimed

You loved me once upon a summertime



Now another winter time has come and gone

The pigeons feeding in the square have flown

But I remember when the vespers chimed

You loved me once upon a summertime

It's very clear, our love is here to stay
Not for a year, but ever and a day
The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know
may just be passing fancies and in time may go,
But oh, my dear, love is here to stay
Together we're going a long long way
In time the rockies may crumble, Gibralta may tumble,
they're only made of clay, but
our love is here to stay

I'm discontented

with homes that are rented

So I have invented my own



Darling this place is

a lover's oasis

Where life's weary chase is unknown



Far from the cry of the city

Where flowers pretty

Caress the streams



Cozy to hide in,

to live side by side in

Don't let it abide in my dreams



Picture me upon your knee

with tea for two, and two for tea

Me for you, and you for me

Alone



Nobody near us

to see us or hear us

No friends or relations

on weekend vacations



We won't have it known

That we own

a telephone



Day will break

And you'll awake

And I will bake

a sugar cake

For you to take

For all the boys to see



We will raise a family

A boy for you and a girl for me

Can't you see

How happy we would be

When I was young I lived in a world of dreams

Of moods and myths and illusionary schemes

Though now I'm much more grown up

I fear that I must own up

To the fact that I'm in doubt of

What the modern cynics shout of



They say it's spring

This feeling light as a feather

They say this thing,

This magic we share together

came with the weather too



They say it's May

that's made me daft as a daisy

It's May, they say

that gave the whole world this crazy,

heavenly, hazy hue



I'm a lark

On the wing

I'm the spark of a firefly's fling



Yet to me

This must be

Something more than a seasonal thing



Could it be spring

Those bells that I can hear ringing

It may be spring

But when the robins stop singing

You're what I'm clinging to

Though they say it's spring

It's you



If poets sing

that when a hard sympathetic

It's merely spring

Then poets plights are pathetic

Though I'm poetic too



They say it's spring

For lovers, there's where the lure is

That evil thing

For which September the cure is

This, they are sure is true



Though I know

that it's so

That my fancy may turn in the spring



With the right

one in sight

One can find a perpetual thing



Did I need spring

To bring the ring that you bought me

Though it was spring

That wondrous day that you caught me



Darling I thought we knew

That it wasn't spring,

'Twas you

I wish you bluebirds in the spring
To give your heart a song to sing,
And then a kiss, but more than this,
I wish you love.
And in July, a lemonade
To cool you in some leafy glade;
I wish you health, and more than wealth,
I wish you love.

My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never be,
So with my best, my very best,
I set you free.

I wish you shelter from the storm,
A cozy fire to keep you warm;
But most of all, when showflakes fall,
I wish you love.

I don’t want you
But I`d hate to lose you
You’ve got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

I forgive you
But I can’t forget you
You’ve got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

I ought to cross you off my list
But when you come a-knocking at my door
Fate seems to give my heart a twist
And I come running back for more

I should hate you
But I guess I love you
You’ve got me in between
The devil and the deep blue sea

Say you're fond of fancy things

Diamond clips and emerald rings

And you want your man to come through

Give him the ooh-la-la



When your car is asked to stop

By a handsome traffic cop

'less you want a ticket or two

Give him the ooh-la-la



If Napoleon at Waterloo-la-la

had an army of debutantes

to give the British the well-known ooh-la-la

He'd have changed the history of France



When your favorite Romeo

Grabs his hat and starts to go

Don't reveal the fact that you're blue

Don't break down and start to boo hoo

There's just one thing for you, la la,

to, la la, do, la la

Like Tallula just give him the ooh-la-la



If Napoleon at Waterloo-la-la

had an army of debutantes

to give the British the well-known ooh-la-la

He'd have changed the history of France





When your favorite Romeo

Grabs his hat and starts to go

Don't reveal the fact that you're blue

Don't break down and start to boo hoo

There's just one thing for you, la la,

to, la la, do, la la

Like Tallula just give him the ooh-la-la



The ooh-la-la, The ooh-la-la

You'd better be like Tellula

Don't be a fool-a

Give him the ooh-la-la

Say you're fond of fancy things

Diamond clips and emerald rings

And you want your man to come through

Give him the ooh-la-la



When your car is asked to stop

By a handsome traffic cop

'less you want a ticket or two

Give him the ooh-la-la



If Napoleon at Waterloo-la-la

had an army of debutantes

to give the British the well-known ooh-la-la

He'd have changed the history of France



When your favorite Romeo

Grabs his hat and starts to go

Don't reveal the fact that you're blue

Don't break down and start to boo hoo

There's just one thing for you, la la,

to, la la, do, la la

Like Tallula just give him the ooh-la-la



If Napoleon at Waterloo-la-la

had an army of debutantes

to give the British the well-known ooh-la-la

He'd have changed the history of France





When your favorite Romeo

Grabs his hat and starts to go

Don't reveal the fact that you're blue

Don't break down and start to boo hoo

There's just one thing for you, la la,

to, la la, do, la la

Like Tallula just give him the ooh-la-la



The ooh-la-la, The ooh-la-la

You'd better be like Tellula

Don't be a fool-a

Give him the ooh-la-la

Pretending that we'll meet
Each time I turn a corner
I walk a little faster

Pretending life is sweet
'Cause love is around the corner
I walk a little faster

Can't begin to see my future shine as yet
No sign as yet, you're mine as yet
Rushing toward a face I can't divine as yet
Keep bumping into walls and taking lots of falls

But even though I meet
At each and every corner
With nothing but disaster

I set my chin a little higher, hope a little longer
Build a little stronger castle in the air
And thinking you'll be there
I walk a little faster

Can't begin to see my future shine as yet
No sign as yet, you're mine as yet
Rushing toward a face I can't divine as yet
Keep bumping into walls and taking lots of falls

But even though I meet
At each and every corner
With nothing but disaster

I set my chin a little higher, hope a little longer
Build a little stronger castle in the air
And thinking you'll be there
I walk a little faster

Let me love you

Let me say that I do

If you lend me your ear

I'll make it clear that I do



Let me whisper it

Let me sigh it

Let me sing it, my dear

or I will cry it



Let me love you

Let me show that I do

Let me do a million impossible things

so you'll know that I do



I'll buy you the dawn

if you let me love you today

And tomorrow I'll buy you

the first of May



Let me whisper it

Let me sigh it

Let me sing it, my dear

or I will cry it



Let me love you

Let me show that I do

Let me do a million impossible things

so you'll know that I do



I'll buy you the dawn

if you let me love you today

And tomorrow I'll send you

Tomorrow I'll send you

Yes, tomorrow I'll send you

merrily on your way



Let me love you

The Riviera
On every street a gay casino
Where continentals sip their vino
And leave their fortunes to chance

The Riviera
Where matrons draped in Paris fashions
Prolong the twilight of their passions
In mad pursuit of romance

Every gay mademoiselle
Is disarming some Maharajah
With the daring of her [Incomprehensible]
Life is so completely zany and free
By the Mediterranean sea

Ah, the Riviera
Where every golden coat of sun tan
Has cost the gold of more than one man
Who wasn't warned in advance

He may take to his heart
All the wonders of France
Then as a token for the dough that he's sunk
He gets a little label slapped on his trunk
The Riviera

The Riviera
On every street a gay casino
Where continentals sip their vino
And leave their fortunes to chance

The Riviera
Where matrons draped in Paris fashions
Prolong the twilight of their passions
In mad pursuit of romance

Every gay mademoiselle
Is disarming some Maharajah
With the daring of her [Incomprehensible]
Life is so completely zany and free
By the Mediterranean sea

Ah, The Riviera
Where every golden coat of sun tan
Has cost the gold of more than one man
Who wasn't warned in advance

He may take to his heart
All the wonders of France
Then as a token for the dough that he's sunk
He gets a little label slapped on his trunk
The Riviera

I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head

There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know

You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed

You fascinate me so



I feel like Christopher Columbus when I'm near enough to contemplate

The sweet geography descending from your eyebrow to your toe

The possibilities are more than I can possibly enumerate

That's why you fascinate me so



So sermonize and preach to me

Make your sanctimonious little speech to me

But oh my darling you forgive my inability to concentrate

I think I'm dealing with a powderkeg that's just about to blow

Will the end result deflate me, or will you annihilate me

You fascinate me so



(piano solo)



So sermonize and preach to me

Make your sanctimonious little speech to me

But oh my darling you forgive my inability to concentrate

I think I'm dealing with a powderkeg that's just about to blow

Will the end result deflate me, or will you annihilate me

You aggravate me

You irritate me

You fascinate me so