Della Reese

I was a stranger in the city Out of town were the people I knew I had that feeling of self-pity What to do? What to do? What to do? The outlook was decidedly blue But as I walked through the foggy streets alone It turned out to be the luckiest day I've known...

A chair is still a chair even when there's no one sitting there But a chair is not a house and a house is not a home when there's no one there to hold you tight and no one there you can kiss good night A room is still a room even when there's nothing there b...

Life is such a great adventure Learn to live it as you go No one in the world can censure What we do here below Don't save your kisses, just pass them around You'll find my reason is logic'lly sound Who's going to know that you passed them around A hundred y...

Some fools don't know what's right from wrong But somehow those folks belong Me, I try for all I'm worth But I still remain a stranger on this earth Some people gloom, other folk cry Me, I have to struggle to keep alive Ever since the day of my birth I've bee...

Now after loving you What else is there to do Cause honey all the rest Are gonna just be second best I know I'll go through life Comparing him to you I'm no good to anyone After loving you Your love cannot be replaced By just another fella With a handsome fa...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ I'm so unhappy, what'll I do I long for sombody who, Will sympathize with me; Im growing so tired of living alone, I lie awake all night and cry Nobody loves me that's why. All by myself in the morning All by myself in the night I sit alone in a...

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 loose them Take my arms I never use them Your goodbyes , left me with eyes that cry How can I go on, dear,without you? You took the part that once was my heart...

Intro: Everything went wrong, And the whole day long I'd feel so blue. For the longest while I'd forget to smile, Then I met you. Now that my blue days have passed, Now that I've found you at last - {end intro} I'll be loving you always With a love that's tru...

If a custom-tailored vet asks me out for something wet When the vet begins to pet, I cry "Hooray" But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion Yes, I am,I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way I've been asked to have a meal by a big tycoon in ste...

And now the pain begins The teardrops start And now the rain begins Within my heart But that's the price I pay The price a fool must pay For I let true love slip away And now the blues walk in And sleepless nights No gypsy violins No starry flights Just bro...

I hear the sound of music, Your favorite kind of music. And that reminds me dear of you. I seel the summer roses, Your favorite shade of roses And that reminds me to of you, dear If I could hear no music, If there could be no roses No summer nights to make me...

In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, Now, Heaven knows, Anything goes. Good authors too who once knew better words, Now only use four letter words Writing prose, because anything goes. The world has gone mad today And good...

Be my love, for no one else can end this yearning This need that you and you alone create Just fill my arms the way you've filled my dreams The dreams that you inspire with ev'ry sweet desire Be my love, and with your kisses set me burning One kiss is all I ne...

It's not that easy bein' green Having to spend each day The color of the leaves When I think it could be so much nicer Bein' red or yellow or gold Or something much more exciting like that It's not that easy bein' green It seems you blend in With so many othe...

Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey? Come on home She moans the whole day long I’ll do the cookin’, honey I’ll pay the rent I know I done you wrong Yes indeedy Remember that rainy evening I put you out with nothin’ Nothin’ but a fine tooth comb Yes I did You see...

Blue skies smiling at me Nothing but blue skies do I see Blue birds singing a song Nothing but blue skies from now on. I never saw the sun shining so bright When you're in love things going so right. Watching all the days hurrying by When you're in love, my,...

Last night I had a dream that the world was changin' Changin' by leaps and bounds It started up in the bigger cities And it's spread to the smaller towns And the people began to smile at people They'd never even seen And when Jeremiah woke me up this morning...

Come on-a my house my house, I'm gonna give you candy Come on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give a you Apple a plum and apricot-a too eh Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house a come on Come on-a my house, my house I'm gonna give...

I'm gonna' love you, like nobody's loved you Come rain or come shine High like a mountain, deep like 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 be You'...

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

Hey, Daddy, I want a diamond ring, bracelets, everything Daddy, you oughta get the best for me Hey, Daddy, gee, don't I look swell in sables? Clothes with Paris labels? Daddy, you oughta get the best for me Here's 'n'amazing* revelation With a bit of stimulat...

I dim all of the lights and I sink in my chair. The smoke from my cigarette climbs through the air. The walls of my room fade away in the blue, And I'm deep in a dream of you. The smoke makes a stairway for you to descend; You come to my arms, may this bliss...

A kiss on the hand May be quite continental But diamonds are a girl's best friend A kiss may be grand But it won't pay the rental On your humble flat Or help you at the automat Men grow cold as girls grow old And we all lose our charms in the end But square-c...

Do I worry `cause you're stepping out? Do I worry `cause you've got me in doubt? Though your kisses aren't right, Do I give a bag of beans? Do I stay home every night and read myself a magazines? Am I frantic `cause we've lost the spark? Is there panic when i...

Someone told someone and someone told you But they wouldn't hurt you, not much Since everyone 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 o...

Don't you know I have fallen in love with you For the rest of my whole life through Don't you know I was yours from the very day That you happened to come my way Can't you see I'm under your spell By the look in my eyes Can't you tell, can't you tell...

Embrace me My sweet embraceable you Embrace me My irreplaceable you Just to look at you My heart grews tipsy in me You and you alone Bring out the gypsy in me I love all The many charms about you And above all I want my arms about you Don't be a naughty baby...

Poets often use many words To say a simple thing, It takes thought and time and rhyme To make a poem sing. With music and words I've been playing, For you I have written the song. To be sure that you known what I'm saying, I'll translate as I go along. Fly...

Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, Getting to hope you like me. Getting to know you, Putting it my way, But nicely, You are precisely, My cup of tea. Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like yo...

Goody goody! Goody goody! Goody goody! So you met someone who set you back on your heels? Goody goody! So you met someone and now you know how it feels – Goody goody! So you gave her your heart too, just as I gave mine to you And she broke it in little piece...

It seems like happiness is just a thing called Joe He's got a smile that makes the lilacs want to grow He's got a way that makes the angels heave a sigh When they know little Joe is passing by Sometimes my cabin's gloomy and my table’s bare But then he kisses...

Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been blue? Have you ever loved someone Just as I love you? Can't you see I'm sorry For each mistake I've made? Can't you see I've changed, dear? Please, believe me, I've paid Be a little forgiving; Take me back in you...

Maybe I should have saved Some ofthose leftover dreams Funny, but here's that rainy day Here's that rainy day they told me about And I just laughed at the thought That it might turn out this way I wonder where is that worn out wish The one I threw aside Af...

Why should I feel discouraged Why should the shadows come Why should my heart feel lonely And long for heaven and home? When Jesus is my portion My constant friend Is he His eye is on the sparrow I know he watches me His eye is on the sparrow I know he watches...

I could just sit around making music all day long As long as I'm making my music ain't gonna do nobody no harm And who knows maybe I'll come up with a song To make people want to stop all this fussing and fighting Long enough to sing along I believe in music...

Could have danced all night Could have danced all night And still have begged for more I could have spread my wings And done a thousand things I've never done before I'll never know what made it so exciting Why all at once my heart took flight I only know wh...

I cried for you; now it's your turn to cry over me Every road has a turning That's one thing you're learning I cried for you; what a fool I used to be Now I found two eyes a little bit bluer And I found me a heart just a little bit truer I cried for you; now i...

I know a little bit about a lot o' things, But I don't know enough about you. Just when I think you're mine, You try a different line, And baby, what can I do? I read the latest news, No buttons on my shoes, But baby, I'm confused about you. You get m...

I had the craziest dream last night, yes, I did I never dreamt it could be Yet there you were in love with me I found your lips close to mine so I kissed you And you didn't mind it at all When I'm awake such a break never happens How long can a gal go on dre...

[I need you so] Oh, I need you so To keep me happy If I can't have you I just refuse to go on [I need your arms] Honey, I need your arms Around me tightly God knows, I miss them nightly When you're not at home Whenever my day is done Oh, I miss you so I just...

I wish I knew someone like you could love me I wish I knew you place no one above me Did I mistake this for a real romance? I wish I knew, but only you can answer. If you don't care, why let me hop[e and pray so Don't lead me on, if I'm a fool just say so, Sh...

I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be rain And darkness too I'll not complain With you I'll see it through That's what I'll do Poverty May come to me, it's true But what care I For I'll get by As long as I have you. ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Poverty May come t...

I'll never be the same Stars have lost their meaning for me I'll never be the same Nothing's what it once use to be And when the songbirds that sing Tell me it's spring I can't believe their song Once love was king But kings can be wrong I'll never be the sam...

I'm always chasing rainbows Watching clouds drifting by My schemes, they're just like all my dreams Ending, ending in the sky. Some people look and find the sunshine Oh, yes, they do I always look and find the rain Most people make a winning sometimes...

I never cared much for moonlit skies, I never winked back at fireflies, But now that the stars are in your eyes I'm beginning to see the light. I never went in for afterglow, Or candlelight on the mistletoe, But now when you turn the lamp down low I'm...

I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray the Lord up above Please send me down somebody to love But nobody wants me I'm blue somehow Won't someone hear my plea and take a chance with me Because I'm nobody's baby now Nobody's baby And I've got...

I'm thru with love, I'll never fall again. Said adieu to love, Don't ever call again. For I must have you or no one. And so I'm thru with love. I've locked my heart. I'll keep my feelings there. I have stocked my heart With icy, frigid air. And I mean to ca...

You are a picture no artist could paint But you're a mixture of devil and saint I just sigh and dream and try to figure you out! Love is in season, the moon's up above Tho' it be treason to question your love Ev'rytime I look at you My heart's in doubt I've g...

Blow, Ill wind blow away Please, let me rest today You’re blowing me no good No good Go Ill wind go away The skies are awfully gray Around my neighborhood Oh, you know, that ain't no good You’re only misleading The sunshine I’m realy needing And it's a shame...

In the still of the night As I gaze out of my window At the moon in it's flight My thoughts all stray, stray to you In the still of the night While the world lies in slumber Oh the times without number When I say to you Do you love me Just like I love you Ar...

When I was seventeen It was a very good year It was a very good year For small town boys And soft summer nights We'd hide from the lights On the village green When I was seventeen When I was twenty-one It was a very good year It was a very good year For city...

You sigh the song begins You speak and I hear violins, it's magic The stars, desert the skies And rush to nestle in your eyes, it's magic Without a golden wand or mystic charms Fantastic things begin when I am in your arms When we walk hand in hand The world...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ It's so nice to have a man around the house Oh so nice to have a man around the house Someone sweet whose glad he found you Who will put his arms around you And his kisses just astound you, it's so nice Oh, a house is just a house without a m...

When the little blue bird who has never said a word Starts to sing, "Spring, spring" When the little blue bell in the bottom of the dell Starts to ring, "Ting, ting" When the little blue clock in the middle of his work Sings a song to the moon up above It is...

Sit there and count your fingers What can you do? Oh girl you're through Sit there and count your little fingers Unlucky little girl blue Sit there and count the raindrops Falling on you It's time you knew All you can count on are the raindrops That fall on l...

Love for sale, Appetizing young love for sale. Love that`s fresh and still unspoiled, Love that`s only slightly soiled, Love for sale. Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply? Who`s prepared to pay the price, For a trip to paradise? Love for...

Love me tender, Love me sweet, Never let me go. You have made my life complete, And I love you so. Love me tender, Love me true, All my dreams fulfilled. For my darlin' I love you, And I always will. Love me tender, Love me long, Take me to your heart. For i...

I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad I long to try something I never had Never had no kissin' Oh, what I've been missin' Lover man, oh, where can you be? The night is cold and I'm so alone I'd give my soul just to call you my own Got a moon above me But no...

There will be another song for me And I will sing it There will be another dream for me Somebody is gonna bring it I will drink the wine while it is warm And never let you catch me just looking at the sun But after all the loves of my life After all the loves...

Honey I love you I think the world of you But I'm afraid you don't care about me Cause you never show it You just don't let me know it Everyone says I'm a fool to be Pining the whole day through Why, why do you act like you do ? Mmm, you're so mean to me, Why...

You ain't never been blue; no, no, no, You ain't never been blue, Till you've had that mood indigo. That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues". I always get that mood indigo, Since my baby said goodbye....

While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy But when I do, I don't follow through Cause my heart belongs to Daddy If I invite a some boy some night To dine on my finnan haddie It's just a pose, 'cause my baby knows That my heart belongs t...

It’s quarter to three There’s no one in the place except you and me So set'em up, Joe I’ve got a little story you ough to know We’re drinking, my friend To the end of a brief episode Just make it one for my baby And one more for the road. I see you've got the...

Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town Be sure that your umbrella is upside down Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers If you wa...

Years we've been together, seems we can't get along, No matter what I do it just don't appeal to you It makes no difference whether I am right or I'm wrong If we can't be sweethearts, then this much you can do Now, just before our parting there is one thing I...

Cigarette holder which wigs me Over her shoulder she digs me Out cattin' that satin doll Baby, shall we go out skippin'? Careful, amigo, you're flippin' Speaks Latin that satin doll She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be I'll give it a whirl but...

Say it isn't so Say it isn't so. Everyone is saying you don't love me, Say it isn't so. Everywhere I go, Everyone I know Whispers that you're growing tired of me, Say it isn't so. People say that you Found somebody new, And it won't be long before you leave...

I heard me a sermonette, have you heard it yet With that soulful message that you won't soon forget It tells about real true love, the kind people lost sight of Through their sinful livin', and their scornin' Heaven above It tells you to love one another beca...

Come and sing a simple song of freedom Sing it like you've never sung before Let it fill the air Tell the people everywhere We, the people here, don't want a war Hey there, Mister Black Man can you hear me? I won't dig your diamonds or hunt your game I just w...

I know that someday you'll want me to want you When I'm in love with somebody else You expect me to be true, and keep on loving you Tho' I'm feeling blue - you think that I know how to forget about you Until someday you'll want me to want you When I'm strong...

There's a somebody I'm longing to see I hope that he turns out to be Someone who'll watch over me I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood But I know I could always be good To one who'll watch over me Although he may not be the man Some girls think of as han...

I can't believe that you're not here with me To have a laugh or share a tear with me It's all so wrong it can't be right It must have been something I dreamed last night To never see your funny face again To never thrill to your embrace again Oh, it's so wron...

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...

Don’t know why There’s no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain’t together Keeps raining 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 all...

Picture you upon my knee Just tea for two And two for tea Just 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, dear That we own a telephone, dear Day will break and I'l...

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...

I saw you last night and got that old feeling When you came in sight, I got that old feeling The moment that you danced by, I felt a thrill And when you caught my eye, my heart stood still Once again I seem to feel that old yearning And I knew the spark of lo...

If I could make a wish I think I'd pass Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound Nothing to eat, no books to read Making love with you Has left me peaceful warm and tired What more could I ask There's nothing left to be desi...

I only want what's the best thing for you, And the best thing for you would be me. I told myself after thinking it through, That the best thing for you would be me. Everyday To myself I say, Find the way, What will it be ? I only want what's the best thing...

Oh, they say some people long ago Were searching for a different tune One that they could croon As only they can They only had the rhythm So they started swaying to and fro They didn't know just what to use That is how the blues really began They heard the bre...

So I walk a little too fast and I drive much much too fast And I'm reckless it's true, but what else can you do Atthe end of a love affair? And I talk a little too much, and I laugh a little too much And my voice is too loud, when I'm out in a crowd So that...

It's not the pale moon that excites me That thrills and delights me, oh no It's just the nearness of you It isn't your sweet conversation That brings this sensation, oh no It's just the nearness of you When you're in my arms And I feel you so close t...

The party's over, it's time to call it a day They've burst your pretty balloon And taken the moon away It's time to wind up the masquerade So make your mind up The piper must be paid The party's over, the candles flicker and dim You danced and dreamed through...

The touch of your lips Upon my brows Your lips, they're cool and sweet Such tenderness Lies in their soft caress My heart forgets to beat The touch of your hands Upon my head The love in your eyes A-shine, And now at last The moment divine The touch of your l...

There may be many other nights like this, And I'll be standing here with someone new, There may be other songs to sing, Another fall, another spring, But there will never be another you. There may be other lips that I may kiss, But they won't thrill me like...

I'd like to get away, Junior Somewhere alone with you It could be oh, so gay, Junior You need a laugh Or two A certain place I know, Frankie Where funny people can have fun That's where the two will go, Darling Before you can count up One, two, three. For t...

Thou swell, thou witty Thou sweet, thou grand Wouldst kiss me, pretty? Wouldst hold my hand? Both thine eyes are cute too What they do to me! Hear me holler: I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee! I'd feel so rich In a hut for two Two rooms and kitchen I'm...

It's three o'clock in the morning We've danced the whole night through And daylight soon will be dawning Just one more waltz with you That melody so entrancing Seems to be made for us two I could just keep on dancing forever dear with you There goes the three...

Time after time, You'll hear me say that I'm So lucky to be loving you So lucky to be The one you run to see In the evening, when the day is through I only know what I know, The passing years will show You've kept my love so young, so new And time after...

Here we are, out of cigarettes Holding hands and yawning, see how late it gets Two sleepy people by dawn's early light Too much in love to say goodnight Here we are, in the cozy chair Pickin' on a wishbone, from the frigidaire Two sleepy people with nothing t...

I'd work for you, I'd slave for you I'd be a beggar or a knave for you If that isn't love, it will have to do Until the real thing comes along I'd gladly move the earth for you To prove my love, dear, and it's worth for you If that isn't love, it will have to...

When you walk down the road Heavy burden, heavy load I will rise and I will walk with you When you walk through the night And you feel like you want to just give up, give up, give up on the fight I will come and I will walk with you Walk with you Until the s...

I want to see your face in every kind of light In fields of dawn and forests of the night And when you stand before the candles on a cake Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make What are you doing the rest of your life? North and South and East...

What'll I do When you are far away And I am blue? What'll I do? What'll I do When I am wondering who Is kissing you? What'll I do? What'll I do with just a photograph To tell my troubles to? When I'm alone with only dreams of you That won't come true What'l...

Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets And little man, little Lola wants you Make up your mind to have (Make up you mind to have) No regrets (no regrets) Recline yourself Resign yourself, you're through I always get, what I aim for And your heart and soul Is what I c...

When I fall in love it will be forever Or I'll never fall in love In a restless world like this is Love is ended before it's begun And too many moonlight kisses Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun When I give my heart it will be completely Or I'll never g...

When you're alone Who cares for starlit skies? When you're alone The magic moonlight dies At break of dawn There is no sunrise When your lover has gone... What lonely hours The evening shadows bring. What lonely hours With memories lingering. Like faded flowe...

You had plenty money, Nineteen-Fifty-Two You let other people make a fool of you Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too You're sittin' here wonderin' what it's all about if you don't get some, I'm gonna put y...

With pen in hand You sign your name Today at five I'll be on that train And you'll be free And I'll be alone So alone If you think We can't find the love we once knew If you think I can't make everything up to you Then I'll be gone And you'll be on your o...

Hey, Bill Bailey Don't look now but Somebody's calling you Who, why, your Lady friend, that's who If I were you, If I were you I'd get my little old self home Won't you come home, Bill Bailey Won't you come home She moans the whole day long I'll do the cooki...

[He] I hear singing and there's no one there I smell blossoms and the trees are bare All day long I seem to walk on air I wonder why, I wonder why I keep tossing in my sleep at night And what's more I've lost my appetite Stars that used to twinkle in the skie...

You're nobody til somebody loves you You're nobody til somebody cares You may be king, you may possess The world and its gold But gold won't bring you happiness when you're growing old The world still is the same, You never change it As sure as the stars s...