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We Take On The Town
03:00
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It doesn’t matter
If life is getting us down
The World’s on a platter
When we take on the town
Don’t need my best pressed
Don’t need no ermine or gown
Still the best dressed
When we take on the town
No one here can top us
Dancing down the street
Oh, even with our 6 left feet
If there’s no brass ring
No reason for us to frown
Still out hearts sing
When we take on the town
Goodbye to humble pie
You make me walk on air
OH you make me feel like Fred Astaire
You take your millions
Don’t need no fame or renown
We got zillions
When we take on the town
When we take on the town!
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Corner Pocket
04:14
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It's Only A Paper Moon
04:26
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It is 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
Hangin' 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
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I Want To Be A Sideman
03:47
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I want to be a sideman
Just an ordinary sideman
A go along for the ride man
Responsibility free
I want to fill behind the vocal
Double on flute and Jam on the blues
I want to go and join the local
Buy a dark suit and start payin’ dues
I want to maintain my book in neatly numbered order
I want to listen to Lester Young on my recorder
I want to play while the people dance
I want to press my own coat and pants
I want to ask for an advance
I want to be a sideman
I want to be a sideman
Just a highly qualified man
A real professional pride man
Old indispensable me
Now I can cut whatever comes up
Fake and transpose and I won’t make a fuss
I want to set the vibes and drums up
Sightread the shows and Sleep on the bus
I want to spend all my time with music and musicians
I want to go out and grab a smoke on intermissions
I want to sleep in the afternoons
And let the leader call all the tunes
I want to be young
I want to have fun
I want to be a sideman
I want to work for a superstar
I want to hang in the hotel bar
I want to be young
I want to have fun
I want to be a sideman
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Laughing At Life
03:49
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Don't mind the rain drops
Wait till the rain stops
You’ll find the sun, laughing at life
No road is lonely,
If you will only
Lose all your blues. laughing at life
Just live for tomorrow, and be happy today
Laugh all your sorrows away
Start now and cheer up
The skies will clear up
Lose all your blues, laughing at life
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Splanky
04:38
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Do you know what it means
To miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I’m not wrong
And this feeling's gettin' stronger
The longer I stay away
Miss them moss covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mocking birds used to sing
And I'd like to see
That lazy Mississippi
Hurryin' into spring
The moonlight on the bayou
A creole tune that fills the air
I dream about magnolias in bloom
And I'm wishin' I was there
Do you know what it means
To miss New Orleans
When that's where you left your heart
And there's one thing more
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans
The Mardi Gras and the memories
Of creole tunes that filled the air
I dream of oleanders in June
And soon I'm wishing that I was there
Do you know what it means
To miss New Orleans
When that's where you left your heart
And there's one thing more
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans
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That Old Black Magic
03:53
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That old black magic has me in its spell
That old black magic that you weave so well
Those icy fingers up and down my spine
The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine
I get the same, I get the same
I get the same old tingle that I feel inside
And then that elevator starts its ride
And down and down I go
Round and round I go
Like a leaf that's caught in a tide
I should stay away but what can I do
I hear your name, and I'm aflame
A flame with such a burning desire
That only your kiss can put out the fire
For you’re the lover that I've waited for
And your the mate that fate had me created for
And every time your lips meet mine
Baby down and down I go
Round and round I go
In a spin
Loving the spin that I'm in
Under that old black magic called love
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I Can't Get Started
06:33
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I've flown around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
The North Pole I have charted,
but I can't get started with you
Around the golf course I'm under par
And all the movies want me to star
I've got a house, a show case
But I can’t get no place with you
You're so supreme
Lyrics I write of you Scheme,
Just for a sight of you I Dream
Both day and night of you
But what good does it do?
In 2008 I sold short
Now in England they want to take me to court
But you've got me downhearted
Cause I can't get started with you
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Centerpiece
03:06
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The more I'm with you pretty baby
The more I feel my love increase
I'm building all my dreams around you
Our happiness will never cease
But nothing's any good without you
Cause baby you're my centerpiece
I buy a house and garden somewhere
Along a country road a piece
A little cottage on the outskirts
Where we can really find release
But nothing's any good without you
Cause baby you're my centerpiece
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Cheek To Cheek
03:17
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Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
But I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to climb a mountain
And reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But it wouldn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh won't you come dance with me
I want my arms about you
Those charms about you
Will carry me through...
To heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek
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Swinging jazz, Witty tunes, Infectious rhythms, and Poignant songs; donnie joe's American Swing brings them all together for the best of the 30s, 40s, 50s, & 60s. Music with a beat that will surely put a smile on your face, get your toes tapping, and make you feel like dancing. ... more
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