Mark Murphy

Old Father Time checked, so there'd be no doubt, Called on the north wind to come on out, Then cupped his hands, so proudly to shout, "La-de-da, de-da-de-da, 'tis Autumn!". The trees say they're tired, they bore too much fruit, Charmed all the wayside, there'...

When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell, Songbirds sing; winter turns to spring. Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell. I know such enchantment can be, 'cos it happened one evening to me: That certain night, the night we met, T...

This couldn't happen again This is that once in a lifetime This is the thrill divine What's more, this never happened before Though I have prayed for a lifetime That such as you would suddenly be mine Mine to hold as I"m holding you now and yet never so near M...

The sea The sky And you and I Sea and sky and you and I With all blues All shades All hues Some blues Are sad But some blues are glad Dark and sad or bright and glad We're all blues All shades All hues We're all blues 

Today I may not have a thing at all Except for just a dream or two But I've got lots of plans for tomorrow And all my tomorrows belong to you Right now it may not seem like spring at all We're drifting and the laughs are few But I've got rainbows planned for...

When somebody loves you It's no good unless he loves you all the way Happy to be near you When you need someone to cheer you all the way [Chorus] Taller than the tallest tree is That's how it's got to feel Deeper than the deep blue sea is That's how deep it g...

Try to think that love's not around Still it's uncomfortably near My own heart ain't gainin' no ground Because my angel eyes ain't here Angel eyes that old devil sent They glow unbearably bright Need I say that my love's mis-spent Mis-spent with angel eyes to...

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. 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. I never care...

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's song But I miss you most of all my dar...

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

My mama done tol' me, When I was in knee pants, My mama done tol' me, Son! A woman'll sweet talk And give ya the big eye; But when the sweet talkin's done, A woman's a two face A worrisome thing Who'll leave ya t'sing The blues in the night Now the rain's a-f...

My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, 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 believe it It's...

No one here can love or understand me Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, winging low Bye, bye, blackbird Where somebody waits for me Sugar's sweet, so is she Bye, bye, blackbird No one here can love or unders...

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 Heaven, I'm in heaven And the cares that hung around me through the week Seem to vanish like a gambler's...

Day in, day out The same old hoodoo follows me about The same old pounding in my heart whenever I think of you And, darling, I think of you Day in and day out Day out, day in I needn't tell you how my days begin When I awake, I awaken with a tingle One possib...

Tell me that it's true, Tell me you agree, I was meant for you, You were meant for me. Dearly beloved, how clearly I see, Somewhere in Heaven you were fashioned for me, Angel eyes knew you, angel voices led me to you; Nothing could save me, fate gave me a s...

When I try to sing you say I'm off key Why can't you see how much this hurts me With your perfect beauty and your perfect pitch You're a perfect terror When I come around must you always put me down If you say my singing is off key my love You will hurt my fe...

Do nothin' till you hear from me Pay no attention to what's said Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream is over my head Do nothin' till you hear from me At least consider our romance If you should take the word of others you've heard Don't you know, I hav...

Ever since the lucky night I found you I've hung around you just like a fool Falling head and heels in love like a kid out of school. My poor heart is in an awful state now But it's too late now to call a halt So if I become a nuisance it's all your fault! D...

Ah! Look at all the lonely people Ah! Look at all the lonely people Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice in a church Where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? All the lonely p...

Why are the stars always winkin' and blinkin' above? What makes a fellow start thinkin' of fallin' in love? It's not the season, the reason is plain as the moon It's just Elmer's tune What makes a lady of eighty go out on the loose? Why does a gander meander i...

I used to have a perfect sweetheart Not a real one, just a dream A wonderful vision of us as a team Can you imagine how I feel now Love is real now, it's ideal You're just what I wanted And now it's nice to live Paradise to live I know why I've waited Know wh...

For all we know We may never meet again Before we go Make this moment live again We won't say goodbye Until the last minute I'll hold out my hand And my heart will be in it For all we know This might only be a dream We come and we go Like the ripples, like th...

The torch I carry is handsome It's worth its heartache in ransom And when the twilight steals I know how the Lady in the Harbor feels When I want rain, I get sunny weather I'm just as blue as the sky Since love is gone, can't pull myself together Guess I'll h...

Heart and soul, I fell in love with you Heart and soul, the way a fool would do, madly Because you held me tight And stole a kiss in the night Heart and soul, I begged to be adored Lost control, and tumbled overboard, gladly That magic night we kissed There i...

Bye bye baby Time to hit the road to dreamland You're my baby Dig you in the land of nod Hold tight baby We'll be swinging up in dreamland All night baby Where the little cherubs trot Look at that knocked out moon Been a-blowing his top in the blue Never...

Ev'ry honey bee fills with jealousy When they see you out with me. I don't blame them, goodness knows, Honeysuckle Rose. When you're passin' by flowers droop and sigh, And I know the reason why. You're much sweeter, goodness knows, Honeysuckle Rose. Don't bu...

I'm a glum one...it's explainable I’ve met someone...unattainable Life's a bore...the world is my oysterno more All the papers...where I led the news With my capers...now will spread the news... Superman turnes out to be a flash-in-the-pan ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ I...

I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too ea...

My story is much too sad to be told But practically ev'rything leaves me totally cold The only exception I know is the case When I'm out on a quiet spree Fighting vainly the old ennui And I suddenly turn and see Your fabulous face I get no kick from champagne...

Though folks with good intentions Tell me to save my tears Well I'm so mad about him I can't live without him Never treats me sweet and gentle The way he should I've got it bad And that ain't good My poor heart is so sentimental Not made of wood I've got it...

Days can be sunny, with never a sigh Don't need what money can buy Birds in the trees sing their day full of song Why shouldn't we sing along? I'm chipper all the day, happy with my lot How do I get that way? Look at what I've got I got rhythm, I got music I...

My love must be a kind of blind love I can't see anyone but you Sha bop sha bop Are the stars out tonight I don't know if it's cloudy or bright I only have eyes for you dear The moon may be high But I can't see a thing in the sky I only have eyes for you I...

I know he'll never be forgotten He was a king uncrowned I know I'll always remember The warmth of his sound Lingers so long I'm sure he's still around For those who heard they repeat him yet So those who hear won't forget The sound of each phrase Echoes the t...

The sleepless nights, the daily fights The quick toboggan, when you reach the heights I miss the kisses, and I miss the bites I wish I were in love again The broken dates, the endless waits The lovely loving, and the hateful hates The conversation, with the f...

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 keep my feelings there. I have stocked my heart With icy, frigid air. And I mean to care...

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've tried so not to give in I've said to myself this affair never will go so well But why should I try to resist,...

Ask me how do I feel, Ask me now that we're cosy and clinging, Well, all I can say is If I were a bell I'd be ringing! From the moment we kissed tonight, That's the way I just got to behave, But if I were a lamp I'd light, Or if I were a banner I'd wave! Ask...

If you could see me now, you'd know how blue I've been One look is all you'd 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...

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...

Want you to know I go for your squeezin' Want you to know it really is pleasin' Want you to know I ain't for no teasin' Treat me sweet and gentle when you say goodnight Just squeeze me but please don't tease me I get sentimental when you hold me tight Just...

I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come They got a crazy way of loving there And I'm gonna get me some. I'll be standing on the corner On the corner of Twelfth Street and Vine I'm gonna be standing o...

Long ago a young man sits and plays his waiting game But things are not the same it seems as in such tender dreams Slowly passing sailing ships and Sunday afternoon Like people on the moon I see are things not meant to be Where do those golden rainbows end? W...

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, our love is here to stay Together we're going a long, long way...

Waking skies At Sunrise, Ev'ry sunset too, Seems to be Bringing me Memories of you. Here and there, Ev'rywhere, Scenes that we once knew, And they all Just recall Memories of you. How I wish I could forget Those happy yesteryears That have left a rosary of t...

Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false or true Whether you remain or wander, I'm growing fonder of you Even though your friends forsake you, Even though you don't succeed Wouldn't I be glad to take you, Give you the break you need More than...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel wit...

[Chorus] 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 both give the very same...

When the evenin' sun goes down You will find me hangin' 'round Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life But it's my life Many people just like me Dreamin' of old used-to-be's Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life Ah, but it's my life Listen to the blues...

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me. She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere. So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair. I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinkin...

When they met, the way they smiled I saw that I was through Oh, you crazy moon What did you do And when they kissed, they tried to say That it was just in fun Oh, you crazy moon Look what you've done Once you promised me, you know That it would never end You...

It seems like a dream, yet I know that it happened A man, a maid, a kiss, and then... goodbye Romance was the theme And we were the players I never think of this without a sigh Lover. One lovely day Love came planning to stay Green Dolphin street supplied the...

Please teacher, teach me something, Nice teacher, teach me something. I'm as awkward as a camel, that's not the worst, My two feet haven't met yet, But I'll be teacher's pet yet, 'Cause I'm gonna learn to dance or burst. Nothing's impossible I have found, For...

When I hear that Serenade in blue I'm somewhere in another world, alone with you Sharing all the joys we used to know Many moons ago Once again your face comes back to me Just like the theme of some forgotten melody In the album of my memory Serenade in blue...

Speak low, when you speak love Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon Speak low, when you speak love Our moment is swift, Like ships adrift we're swept apart too soon Speak low, darling, speak low Love is a spark lost in the dark too soon, too soon. I...

Well, I'm a steamroller, baby I'm bound to roll all over you Yes, I'm a steamroller now, baby I'm bound to roll all over you I'm gonna inject your soul with some sweet rock 'n roll And shoot you full of rhythm and blues Well, I'm a cement mixer A churning urn...

Stolen moments Stolen moments If I told you I love you, pretty baby, Would it make up for what they say? If I hold you and shield you, darlin', Will you linger awhile today? If I hold you and hug you, My kissin' Stolen moments Stolen moments If I told you I l...

Midnight, you heavy laden, it's midnight Come on and trade in your old dreams for new Your new dreams for old I know where they're bought I know where they're sold Midnight, you've got to get there at midnight And you'll be met there by others like you Brother...

Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornings You're going to rise up singing Then you'll spread your wings And you'll take to...

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. Now I'm taking...

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 starts its ride, And,...

Love is wrong. It sings a hopeless song. It longs for bitter disappointment and tears and tears. It calls to all that used to be, And it yearns for someone who was tender but untrue. Love is blind. It's helplessly inclined, To bind itself to discontentment an...

She gets too hungry for dinner at eight She likes the theater and never comes late She never bothers with people she'd hate That's why the lady is a tramp Doesn't like crap games with barons or earls Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls Won't dish th...

If there's a gleam in her eye Each time she straightens your tie, You know the lady's in love with you! If she can dress for a date Without that waiting you hate, It means the lady's in love with you! And when your friends ask you over to join their table, Bu...

Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine I'm afraid the masquerade is over And so is love, and so is love Your words don't mean what they used to mean They were once inspired, now they're just routine...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Round, Like a circle in a spiral, Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel, Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival balloon, Like a carousel that's turning Running rings around the moon Like a clock who...

You look at me and wonder, you look at me and doubt, Darling your eyes are asking, "Will the flame burn out?" Well, no one is sure of sun shine, no one is sure of dawn, But I am sure my love will live on and on. I'll be tired of you when stars are tired of gle...

Oh! Will you never let me be? Oh! Will you never set me free? The ties that bound us Are still around us There's no escape that I can see And still those little things remain That bring me happiness or pain A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces An airlin...

Though my visions are not greatly varied They are consistent I claim For an each we are happily married And your delight is mine The moon upon us gazes While I seek for phrases due With which to sing your praises ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Time on my hands, You in my arms...

Here in a moment of darkness Remember the sun has shone Laugh, and the world will laugh with you Cry, and you'll cry alone No tears No fears Remember there's always tomorrow So what if we have to part We'll be together again Your kiss Your smile Are memor...

What if there was no light Nothing wrong, nothing right What if there was no time And no reason, or rhyme What if you should decide That you don't want me there by your side That you don't want me there in your life What if I got it wrong And no poem...

Why was I born Why am I livin' What do I get What am I givin' Why do I want for things I dare not hope for What can I hope for I wish I knew Why do I try To draw you near me Why do I cry You never hear me I'm a poor fool But what can I do Oh baby why was I bor...

Those fingers in my hair, That sly come-hither stare, That strips my conscience bare, It's witchcraft. And I've got no defense for it, The heat is too intense for it, What good would common sense for it do? Cause it's witchcraft, wicked witchcraft, And altho...

There's not a morning that I open up my eyes And find I didn't dream of you Without a warning, no it's never a surprise As soon as I awake, thoughts of you arise With ev'ry breath I take At any time or place I close my eyes and see your face And I'm embracing...

You better go now Because I like you much too much, You have a way with you; You ought to know now Just why I like you very much, The night was gay with you! There's the moon above And it gives my heart a lot of swing; In your eyes there's love, And the way I...

You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain And I find you spinning 'round in my brain Like the bubbles in a glass of champagne You go to my head like a sip of sparkling Burgundy brew And I find the very mention of you Like the kicker in a julep o...