John Gary

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...

There's a dear old land of leprechauns And wondrous wishing wells And nowhere else on God's green Earth There be such lakes and dells No wonder that the angels love That shamrock covered shore It draws my heart home again And I love it more and more Have you...

Anywhere I wander, anywhere I roam Till I’m in the arms of my darling again My heart will find no home Anywhere I wander, anywhere I roam Her arms were warm as they welcomed me Her eyes were a fire bright And then I knew that my path must be Through the ever...

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter song But I miss you most of all my darling Whe...

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...

When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound of music so tender It brings back a night of tropical splendor It brings back a memory ever green I'm with you once more under the stars And down by the shore an orchestra's playing And even the palms seem...

Because they told me I can't behold ye till weddin' music starts playin' To ease my longin' there's nothin' wrong in my standin' out here and sayin' Come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day! Darlin', my darlin', 'tis all I can say Jus' come to me, bend to...

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the valley's hushed...

(Dear Heart, Wish you were here Wish you were here) Dear Heart, Wish you were here to warm this night. My Dear Heart, Seems like a year Since you've been out of my sight. A single room, a table for one; It's a lonesome town all right But soon I'll kiss you...

When the deep purple falls Over sleepy garden walls And the stars begin to flicker in the sky Through the mist of a memory You wander back to me Breathing my name with a sigh In the still of the night Once again I hold you tight Tho' you're gone your love liv...

Don't blame me for falling in love with you I'm under your spell but how can I help it! Don't' blame me! Can't you see when you do the things you do! If I can't conceal the thrill that I'm feeling, Don't blame me. I can't help it if that doggoned moon above...

First the tide rushes in Plants a kiss on the shore Then rolls out to sea And the sea is very still once more So I rush to your side Like the oncoming tide With one burning thought Will your arms open wide? At last we're face to face And as we kiss throug...

Far away places with strange sounding names Far away over the sea Those far away places with the strange sounding names are Calling Calling me Goin' to China or maybe Siam I wanna see for myself Those far away places I've been reading about in a Book that I...

Fill my heart with song, And let me sing forever more, You are all I long for, All I worship and adore. In other words, please be true, In other words, I love you. Fly me to the moon And let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter a...

If you love me half as much as I love you You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do You're nice to me when there's no one else around You only build me up to let me down If you missed me half as much as I missed you You wouldn't stay away half as much as y...

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's pretend that we're together, all alone. I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low, You can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go. Whisper to me, tell me do you love me true, Or is he...

If I’ve no will to go from home; Or have no urge the seas to roam; Or turn my back on a distant star and never burn to wander far; It’s not because of fear. It’s because my goal is clear There's a far land, I'm told, Where I'll find a field of gold, But...

I hear a bird, Londonderry bird, It well may be he's bringing me a cheering word. I hear a breeze, a River Shanon breeze, It well may be it's followed me across the seas. Then tell me please How are things in Glocca Morra? Is that little brook still leaping t...

And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry? How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? How many times a day do I think of you? How many roses are sprinkled with dew?...

Whenever skies look gray to me And trouble begins to brew, Whenever the Winter winds become too strong, I concentrate on you. When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!" to me And people declare "You're through!", Whenever the blues become my only song, I concentrate on y...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay, The glory that was Rome is of another day, I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan, I'm going home to my city by the bay. I left my heart in San Francisco, High on a hill. It calls to...

Goodbye, no use leading with our chins This is where our story ends Never lovers, ever friends Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day But before you walk away I sincerely want to say I wish you bluebirds in the spring To give your heart a song to sing And then...

I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces all day through In that small cafe, the park across the way The children's carousel, The chestnut trees, the wishing well I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day In ev...

I've got you under my skin. I've got you deep in the heart of me. So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me. I've got you under my skin. I'd tried so not to give in. I said to myself, this affair never will go so well. But why should I try to resist...

If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in summer Seeing you in summer, I never would go Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame Your face with a luster that puts gold to shame But if I'd ever leave you, it couldn't be in autumn How I'd lea...

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...

It was fascination, I know And it might have ended right there at the start Just a passing glance, just a brief romance And I might have gone on my way empty-hearted It was fascination, I know Seeing you alone with the moonlight above Then I touched you...

I’ll bring you the drink from the pure crystal fountain And ply you with roses and woo you with rhyme I’ll bring you the glow from the light on the mountains And joy in the morning time Joy, joy, joy in the Morning Joy in the morning as long as you live And t...

Love is a many splendored thing It's the April rose that only grows in the early Spring Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living The golden crown that makes a man a king Once on a high and windy hill, In the morning mist Two lovers kissed and the w...

There's a spot in my heart, Which no colleen may own. There's a depth in my soul, Never sounded or known; There's a place in my mem'ry, My life, that you fill, No other can take it, No one ever will. [Chorus] Sure, I love the dear silver That shines in your...

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, how many names such as this For they both have the very same sensation When you...

Once upon a time A girl with moonlight in her eyes Put her hand in mine, And said she loved me so. But that was once upon a time Very long ago. Once upon a hill We sat beneath a willow tree Counting all the stars And waiting for the dawn. But that was once up...

Blow tropic wind, sing a song through the tree Tree sigh to me, soon my love I will see Poinciana, your branches speak to me of love Pale moon is casting shadows from above Poinciana, somehow I feel the jungle heat Within me, there grows a rhythmic, savage be...

I peeked in to say goodnight, And then I heard my child in prayer. "And for me some scarlet ribbons, Scarlet ribbons for my hair." All the stores were closed and shuttered, All the streets were dark and bare. In our town, no scarlet ribbons, Not one ribbon...

There's a little brown road windin' over the hill To a little white cot by the sea There's a little green gate At whose trellis I wait While two eyes of blue Come smilin' through at me There's a gray lock or two in the brown of your hair There's some silver...

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

Softly I will leave you Softly, for my heart would break If you should wake and see me go So I'll leave you Softly, long before you miss me Long before your arms can beg me stay For one more hour or one more day After all the years I can't bare The tears to...

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger, You may see a stranger across a crowded room, And somehow you know, you know even then, That somehow you'll see her again and again. Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing, You may hear her laughing acr...

I used to walk with you Along the avenue Our hearts were carefree and gay How could I know I'd lose you Somewhere along the way? The friends we used to know Would always smile "Hello" No love like our love they'd say Then love slipped through our fingers Some...

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of...

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 was waltzin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see Introduced him to my loved one and while they were waltzin' My friend stole my sweetheart from me I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz Now I know just how much...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos. Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will fi...

The moon is high Then I don’t need the moon Its silver spell finds me in more less in you Simply because : 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 bring...

The shadow of your smile When you have gone Will color all my dreams And light the dawn Look into my eyes my love and see All the lovely things you are to me Our wistful little star It was far, too high A teardrop kissed your lips And so did I Now when I re...

When ever we kiss, I worry and wonder. Your lips may be near, but where is your heart? It's always like this, I worry and wonder. You're close to me here, but where is your heart? It's a sad thing to realize that you've a heart that never melts. When we kis...

The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds That rise from the lake t...

There goes my heart, there goes the one I love There goes the girl I wasn't worthy of There goes my happiness, it couldn't be There goes somebody else in place of me Goodbye romance, it couldn't last somehow I had my chance but it's all over now I never thoug...

This is all I ask, this is all I need Beautiful girl walk a little slower when you walk by me Lingering sunset stay a little longer with the lonely sea Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me Take me to that strange enchanted land, grownup...

O, my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch A long lonely time Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love, I need your love God speed your love to me Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea To the open arms...

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may a...

Who can I turn to When nobody needs me? My heart wants to know So I must go Where destiny leads me With no star to guide me And no one beside me I'll go on my way And after the day The darkness will hide me And maybe tomorrow I'll find what I'm after I'll th...

Sleigh bells ring are you listening In the lane snow is glistening A beautiful sight we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the bluebird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song as we go alone Walking in a winter wonderland In...

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song That field of corn would never see a plow That field of corn would be deserted now A man is born but he's no good no ho...

You stepped out of a dream You are too wonderful to be what you seem! Could there be eyes like yours, Could there be lips like yours Could there be smiles like yours, Honest and truly? You stepped out of a cloud I want to take you away, away from the crowd A...

You'd be so nice to come home to You'd be so nice by the fire While the breeze on high, sang a lullaby You'd be all my heart could desire Under stars chilled by the winter Under an August moon shining above You'd be so nice, you'd be paradise To come home to...

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...