Billy Eckstine

Our little dream castle with every dream gone, Is lonely and silent, the shades are all drawn, And my heart is heavy as I gaze upon A cottage for sale The lawn we were proud of is flowing in hay, Our beautiful garden has withered away, Where you planted roses...

I've got to know where I stand I just for to know where I am with you So here's penny for your thoughts, a nickel for a kiss A dime if you tell me that you love me Penny for your thoughts, a nickel for a kiss A dime if you tell me that you love me Walkin' ho...

A room with a view, I've got a room with a view Of wonderful you, my next door dream 'Cause you're the one and only one my heart really adores And I'm so glad my window pane is just opposite yours It isn't the moon way up in heaven above It isn't the stars I'm...

I want a Sunday kind of love A love that will last past Saturday night And I've got to know it's more than love at first sight I want a Sunday kind of love I want a love that's on the square Can't seem to find somebody, someone to care And I'm on a lonely roa...

You're a weaver of dreams You and your strange fascination You're a weaver of dreams You and your come-hither smile Just to hear you speak Can leave me weak as a babe in arms Poor little babe in arms Helpless before your charms For you're a weaver of dreams...

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the moon April in Paris, this is a feeling No one can ever reprise I never knew the charm of spring Never met it face-to-face I never knew my heart could sing Never missed a warm embrace Till April i...

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 And 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 Well, I never...

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. Moo...

Aurora comes from Rio De Janeiro She dances in a little street cafe. And when you're down in Rio De Janeiro Here's what you'll hear each Latin lover say. [Chorus] You're a sweet heart in a million Oh oh oh ooh (be mine oh oh) aurora With your manner so Brazil...

Bewildered Bewildered, lost in a dream In the love I need why did we part Bewildered, has love, has love died dear Wishing your heart could feel Whta's in my heart Must I have sleepless night And endless days Oh love why did you keep my soul Without a spark I'...

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 onl...

My days are grown lonely You know I pray for you, dear, only Why haven't you seen it? I'm all for you, body and soul I spend my days in longing And wondering why it's me you're wronging I tell you I mean it I'm all for you, body and soul I can't beli...

I walk along the street of sorrow The boulevard of broken dreams Where gigolo and gigolette Can take a kiss without regret So they forget their broken dreams You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow When you behold your shattered schemes Gigolo and gigolette Wake u...

Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry of their fading light That shines upon our caravan Sleep upon my shoulder as we creep Across the sand so I may keep This mem'ry of our caravan This is so exciting, you are so inviting Resting in my arms...

Hear me, why you keep fooling Little coquette, making fun of the one who loves you Breaking hearts you are ruling Little coquette, true hearts tenderly dreaming of you. Someday you'll fall in love as I fell in love with you. Maybe the one you love will just be...

The days of wine and roses Laugh and run away like a child at play Through the meadow land toward a closing door A door marked nevermore that wasn't there before The lonely night discloses Just a passing breeze filled with memories Of a golden smile that intr...

If I should write a book for you That brought me fame and fortune too That book would be like my heart and me Dedicated to you. And, if I should paint a picture too That showed the loveliness of you My art would be, like my heart and me, Dedicated to you. To y...

Missed the Saturday dance Heard they crowded the floor Couldn't bear it without you Don't get around much anymore Thought I'd visit the club Got as far as the door They'd have asked me about you Don't get around much anymore Darling I guess my mind's more at...

Tear a star from out the sky and the sky feels blue Tear a petal from a rose and the rose weeps too Take your heart away from mine and mine will surely break My life is yours to take, so please keep that spark awake Would you take the wings from birds so that...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze And touches with her hand the summer trees, Perhaps you'll understand what memories I own. There's a dance pavilion in the rain, all shuttered down, A winding country lane all russet brown...

I make a date for gown, You can bet your life it rains. Tried to give a party But the guy upstairs complains. Guess I'll go through life Catching colds and missing trains. Everything happens to me. I never miss a thing I've had the measles and the mumps. And...

Everything I have is yours You're part of me Everything I have is yours My destiny I would gladly give the sun to you If the sun were only mine I would gladly give the earth to you And the stars that shine Everything that I posses I offer you Let my dream of...

Don't you think that we could get together Make another go of it and weather the storm I've got all the dreams invested in you When you wander through my mind I still can feel the warm Hangin' on to love is all that matters We can patch it up, though it's bee...

As I write this letter to you, Darlin' I can't hold the teardrops from my eyes For at sundown I will lay a-dyin' At the door of the Fool's Paradise Rode into this cattle town this morning Left my bearer to check the market price And I walked into the neare...

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. And so I come to you my love, My heart above my head. Though I see the danger there. If there's a chance for me, then I don't care Fools rush in where wise men never go. But wise men never fall in love, So how...

From this moment on You for me, dear Only two for tea, dear From this moment on From this happy day No more blue songs Only hoop-dee-doo songs From this moment on For you've got the love I need so much Got the skin I love to touch Got the arms to hold me tig...

Goodbye I hate to see you go But have a good time So long, I’ll miss you, dear, I know But have a good time Have your fling, be gay with your new love I’m setting you free Dance and sing, pretend that it’s true love Don’t worry ’bout me I know That tears wi...

Monday is shining You know 'em Tuesday's rain Well, the days go by me Like a southbound train Yes, it's funny thinking You will never call my name Here comes long lonely Here comes the blues Well, the world's the same old comedy You know my time is cold Nothi...

O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth. Long lay the world in sin and error pining. Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorio...

Maybe I should have saved those left over dreams Funny, but here's that rainy day Here's that rainy day they told me about And I laughed at the thought that it might turn out this way Where is that worn out wish that I threw aside After it brought my lover ne...

Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's heaven How high the moon There is no moon above When love is far away too Till it comes true That you love me as I love you Somewhere there's music How near, how far Somewhere there's heaven It's wh...

Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's heaven How high the moon There is no moon above When love is far away too Till it comes true That you love me as I love you Somewhere there's music How near, how far Somewhere there's heaven It's wh...

If I told a lie, if I made you cry When I said goodbye, I'm sorry From the bottom of my heart, dear I apologize If I caused you pain, I know I'm to blame Must have been insane, believe me From the bottom of my heart, dear I apologize I realize I've been unfa...

I got lost in her arms and I had to stay It was dark in her arms and I lost my way From the dark came a voice And it seemed to say There you go There you go How I felt as I fell I just can't recall But her arms held me fast and it broke the fall And I said...

And when I hear you call So softly to me I don't hear a call at all, I hear a Rhapsody And when your sparkling eyes Are smiling at me Then soft through the starlit skies, I hear a rhapsody My days are so blue When you're away My heart longs for you So won't...

I left my hat in Haiti In some forgotten flat in Haiti I couldn't tell you how I got there I only know it was so hot there She took my hat politely And wound her arms around me tightly But I remember nothing clearly Except the flame when she came near me Her...

I love you I love you Is all that I can say I love you I love you The same old words I'm saying In the same old way I love you I love you Three words that are divine And now, my dear, I'm waiting to hear Those words that make you mine ~~~♫♫♫~~~ The same old...

I wanna be loved with inspiration I wanna be loved starting tonight Instead of merely holding conversation Hold me tight I wanna be kissed until I tingle I wanna be kissed starting tonight Embrace me till our heartbeats intermingle Wrong or right I feel like...

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 grey 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 wit...

I'm a fool to want you I'm a fool to want you To want a love that can't be true A love that's there for others too I'm a fool to hold you Such a fool to hold you To seek a kiss not mine alone To share a kiss the Devil has known Time and time again I said I'd...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love. Heaven is in your eyes Bright as the stars we're under Oh! Is it any wonder I'm in the mood for love? Why stop to think of whether Th...

If they made me a king I'd be but a slave to you If I had everything I'd still be a slave to you If I ruled the night, stars and moon so bright Still I'd turn for light to you If the world to me bowed yet humbly I'd flee to you If my friends were a crowd I'd...

If you could see me now You'd know how blue I've been One look is all you need to see the mood I'm in Perhaps then you'd realize I'm still in love with you If you could see me now You'd find me being brave And trying awfully hard to make my tears behave But t...

In my solitude you haunt me With reveries of days gone by In my solitude you taunt me With memories that never die I sit in my chair I’m filled with despair There's no one could be so sad With gloom everywhere I sit and I stare I know that I'll soon go mad I...

Years go by, still I recall How we met one day When you passed my way In the rain Most of all I can forget How you thrilled me then With each kiss we shared In the rain Ever though, it thundered so Our hearts were full of joy Heaven held fulfilled the dreams...

In the still of the night As I gaze from my window At the Moon in its flight My thoughts all stray to you In the still of the night While the world is in slumber Oh, the times without number Darling, when I say to you Do you love me as I love you Are you my...

Jealousy, night and day you torture me I sometimes wonder if this spell that I'm under Can be only a melody, for I know no one but me Has won your heart, but when the music starts My peace departs from the moment They play that lovely strain And we surrender...

Hello baby, I had to call you on the phone Hello baby, I had to call you on the phone 'Cause I feel so lonesome And daddy wants his baby home It's a down-right rotten, Low down dirty shame It's a down right rotten Low down dirty shame The way that you're trea...

I touch your lips and all at once the sparks go flying Those devil lips that know so well the art of lying And though I see the danger, still the flame grows higher I know I must surrender to your kiss of fire Just like a torch, you set the soul within me bur...

Laura is the face in the misty lights. Footsteps that you hear down the hall. The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall. And you see Laura on a train that is passing through. Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very f...

My darling all around us people clamour They're striving for the thing they'll never own The only thing that hasn't lost its glamour Is love, and love alone What does it matter if we're rich or we're poor Fortune and fame they never endure For love is the thi...

It's the part of the dream that leaves me when the sunlight hits my eyes It's the part of the dream that rolls me over and over as I sleep It's the part of the dream that leaves me wanting for the darkness It's the part of the dream I can't remember it at all...

Love is just around the corner, Any cozy little corner, Love is just around the corner, When I'm around you. I'm a sentimental mourner, And I couldn't be forlorner, When you keep me on that corner, Just waiting for you. Venus de Milo was noted for her charms...

As soon as I have saved a little nest egg I hope to ask you, dear, will you be mine? The lovers you have had say, you're the best egg They repeat, you're completely divine I've heard of Pompadour and Cleopatra But you are better than the two combined How can...

Hey have you ever tried, Really reaching out for the other side? I may be climbing on rainbows But, baby here goes. Dreams they're for those who sleep, Life is for us to keep, And if you're wond'ring What this song is leading to I want to make it with you I...

Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud, I can't understand I get misty, just holding your hand. Walk my way, And a thousand violins begin to play, Or it might be the sound of your „hello”, That music I hear....

My destiny is to be in love with you Makes no difference what you say or do I must stay in love with you That's my destiny It's the thing you can't control I belong to you both heart and soul With a love beyond control They say nothing is sure Even the sea ru...

The night is like a lovely tune, beware my foolish heart How white the ever constant moon, take care, my foolish heart There's a line between love and fascination That's hard to see on an evening such as this For they give the very same sensation When you are...

I reach for you like I'd reach for a star Worshiping you from afar, living with my silent love I'm like a flame dying out in the rain Only the ashes remain, smoldering like my silent love How I long to tell all the things I have planned Still it's wrong to te...

No orchids for my lady No sparkle in the wine For other lips have told my lady To pass beside this love of mine So there's no rapture in our meeting No kisses when we part The orchids I gave my lovely lady Were clutched on someone else's heart 

No one but you could take my heart before you came No one but you could make my heart burst into flame Now I hear myself confessing All the dreams I've been suppressing All at once my lips are blessing your name Your hands are cool, your eyes are warm Your sm...

[Chorus] Oh, how happy You have made me Oh, how happy You have made me I have kissed your lips a thousand times And more times than I can count I have called you mine You have stood by me in my darkest hour, and [Chorus] In our years together, we have had s...

Once, and only once The one and only comes along Once you took my hand I felt your touch and I was strong No wonder other simple love Was not too clear to me Though you were dear to me I walked away Who knew that once I knew your arms Your arms would bind me...

It'squarter to three, There's no one in the place except you and me So Set'em up Joe, I’ve got a little story I want you to 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 got the routine, S...

Ooh,yeah From rags to riches, here I stand Shaped and molded by your loving hand With faith and trust unshaken You led me all the way Through years of joy and tears I'm standing here to say You're that one love in my lifetime And if I search this whole wide w...

(Billy) We seem like passing strangers now How can you hurry by (Sarah) There where never two who loved Half as much as you and I We seem like passing strangers now Funny how things can change (Billy) We where so inseparable Now you're acting very strange (...

People, People who need people Are the luckiest people in the world We're children Needing other children And yet letting a grown-up pride Hide all the need inside Acting more like children than children Lovers Are very special people They're the luckiest p...

If you hear a song in blue Like a flower crying for the dew That was my heart serenading you My prelude to a kiss If you hear a song that grows From my tender sentimental woes That was my heart trying to compose A prelude to a kiss Though it's just a simple...

Alone from night to night you'll find me Too weak to break the chains that bind me I need no shackles to remind me I'm just a prisoner of love For one command I stand and wait now From one who's master of my fate now I can't escape for it's too late now I'm j...

Roses, I send you roses, with all the love their tender blossoming discloses. Just like my heart, they'll open wide, you'll see my heart inside. Please dear, embrace the roses, And I will come to you and when the long day closes, My love for you will burst...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Skylark, Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be? Is there a meadow in the mist Where someone's waiting to be kissed? Skylark, Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the sh...

They ask me how I knew My true love was true I of course reply 'Something here inside Cannot be denied' They said 'Someday you'll find All who love are blind When your heart's on fire You must realise Smoke gets in your eyes' So I chaffed them And I gayly la...

They say into your early life romance came And in this heart of yours burned a flame A flame that flickered one day and died away Then, with disillusion deep in your eyes You learned that fools in love soon grow wise The years have changed you, somehow I see y...

I hate's to see dat ev'nin' sun go down Hate's to see dat ev'nin' sun go down Cause ma baby, she done lef' dis town If I feel tomorrow lak ah feel today Feel tomorrow lak ah feel today I'll pack up my trunk, and make ma git away Saint Louis woman wid her diam...

The song a robin sings, Through years of endless springs, The murmur of a brook at evening tides. That ripples through a nook where two lovers hide. That great symphonic theme, That's stella by starlight, And not a dream, My heart and I agree, She's everythi...

I have lived my life My life, my, my life In a sad world (In a sad world) But I'm gonna tell you Gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you I've found the right girl She's so gentle and kind Gentle and kind Gentle and kind Gentle and kind And she treats me like a kin...

Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my gal and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all the time Life is bare, Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't get my poor self together I'm weary all the time, the time So weary al...

Here I go again, I hear those trumpets blow again. All aglow again, Takin' a chance on love. Here I slide again About to take that ride again. Starry-eyed again, Takin' a chance on love. I thought that cards were a frame-up, I never would try. But now I...

You came, I was alone I should have known you were temptation You smiled, luring me on My heart was gone, you were temptation It would be thrilling If you were willing If it can never be Pity me for you are temptation and I am yours Here is my heart, take it...

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...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ 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, The same old tingle that I feel inside And then that elevator sta...

I can only give you love that lasts forever, And a promise to be near each time you call. And the only heart I own For you and you alone That's all, That's all... I can only give you country walks in springtime And a hand to hold when leaves begin to f...

I was a fool who never knew The ways of love I was a fool who never knew The ways of love Now I tell everyone I meet Then never was a love Without a moment of The bitter with the sweet And when I tell them all The that we knew then When all the world lay at...

Oh, I went down to Tennessee Yes, I went down to Tennessee What did I see in Tennessee? I saw a place where dancers meet I swear I saw the dancingest feet You never heard a wilder beat They were doing the Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll They were doing the Tennessee...

A heart that's true, there are such things A dream for two, there are such things Someone to whisper "Darling you're my guiding star" Not caring what you own but just what you are A peaceful sky, there are such things A rainbow high, where heaven sings So hav...

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night Tonight there will be no morning star Tonight, tonight, I'll see my love tonight And for us, stars will stop where they are Today, the minutes seem like hours The hours grow so slowly And still the sky is light, oh mo...

Come to me without more speculation Have no fear, give me your hand, my dear Trust in me in all you do Have the faith I have in you Love will see us through If only you trust in me Come to me when things go wrong Cling to me and I'll be strong We can get alo...

Here I stand and alas Of a warrior's class Apprentice turned sorcerer I I've seen many wars end Made the battle my friend None am I afraid to defy I've done as I please Yet I fall to my knees Weak and bleeding sure that I'm through And as I lay there to die...

When the sun comes out And that rain stops beatin' on my windowpane When the sun comes out There'll be bluebirds 'round my door Singin' like they did before That old storm broke out And my girl walked off and left me in the rain Though she's gone I doubt If s...

Wonder why I'm not myself off late I'm feeling strangely great, I wonder why I suppose some changes could explain Why I walk in the rain, just let him try I guess there is a simple explanation Unless I come up with a new sensation It could be that she's caug...

I can't forget the night I met you, That's all I'm thinking of; And now you call it madness, But I call it love. You made a promise to be faithful By all the stars above; And now you call it madness, I still call it love. My heart is beating,It keeps on repeat...

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 h...

I used to dream of gold and glory Just like a lot of people do But since you taught me love's old story I only dream of you You're All I Need my wonderful one You're All I Need my starlight and sun A friend to walk beside me A loving hand to guide me A tender...

You! You're driving me crazy! What did I do? What did I do? My tears for you make everything hazy, Clouding the skies of blue. How true were the friends Who were near me to cheer me? Believe me, they knew! But you were the kind who would hurt me Desert me...

You've got me crying again You've got me sighing again What is this love all about? I'm in, I'm out Your kisses right from the start Came from your lips, not your heart You make me happy and then Somebody new looks good to you You've got me crying again Just c...

Younger than springtime, are you Softer than starlight, are you, Warmer than winds of June Are the gentle lips you gave me. Gayer than laughter, are you, Sweeter than music, are you, Angel and lover, heaven and earth, Are you to me. And when your youth And jo...

Dear when you smiled at me, I heard a melody It haunted me from the start Something inside of me started a symphony Zing! went the strings of my heart 'Twas like a breath of spring, I heard a robin sing About a nest set apart All nature seemed to be in perfec...