Patti Austin

A little bit of love can go a long long way But what you're thinking of Should maybe start today, start today Start today, start today You know it's not too late No, it's not too late, no it's not too late Well, it's not too late, no it's not too late Well,...

Everybody's thinking thinking pretty hard Everybody's thinkin' about singin' from the heart If you want my opinion it doesn't mean a thing if you haven't got that ability to swing The ability to swing Everybody workin' workin' pretty hard Everbody workin' at...

Across the alley from the Alamo Lived a pinto pony and a Navajo Who sang a sort of Indian Hi-de-ho To the people passing by The pinto spent his time a-swhishin' flies And the Navajo watched the lazy skies And very rarely did they ever rest their eyes On the...

... Hey, I'm so sorry that it didn't work the way that we'd always planned Hey, I'm so sorry that you went away and somehow didn't understand We pretended for so many years, but now its time to wash away my tears CHORUS Cause/And it's all behind us n...

The case was pulled from under the bed She made a call to a sympathetic friend And made arrangements The door was closed, there was a note I couldn't be bothered Maybe I'll choke, no more engagements With "where-have-you-beens?" And far away frowns Trying to...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ I couldn't see paradise right before my eyes When I had you here by my side I didn't know that no-one else Could ever take your place But, now I know I know that I should have stayed. And seeing you tonight I only wonder why I ever said goodbye A...

Thinkin' back in time When love was only in my mind, I realize Ain't no second chance You've got to hold on to romance, don't let it slide There's a special kind of magic in the air When you find another heart that needs to share Baby, come to me Let me put...

Loving you came easily Yet it made me blind to all there was to see Now my heart is filled with pain You understand I never will How did it come to be that you don't love me still? Now it's getting to be plain If you really cared about anyone else I k...

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 belie...

Broken Hearts Broken Dreams Torn about From the seems Oh wanna wanna do you see Lovers Together again Lonely Hearts All alone Nothing let but sad sad songs Oh wanna wanna do you see Lovers Together again It all stands so happy Worked go wrong To and you sen...

By the grace of god I will survive By the grace of god I will stay alive By the grace of god I will see another day I will find a better way By the grace of god By the grace of god I will see the light By the grace of god I will find my mind By the grace of go...

A desert road from Vegas to nowhere Some place better than where you've been A coffee machine that needs some fixing In a little café just around the bend I am calling you I am calling you A hot dry wind blows right through me The baby's crying and I...

Sometimes I drive so fast even I get scared Some things they never last Where's the love we shared? Is it dead? I guess I'll never learn how to keep a man Knowin' when my back is turned he'll do what he can to love another woman woooooo I was captivated by y...

Now you say you're lonely You cried the long night through Well, you can cry me a river Cry me a river I cried river over you Now you say you're sorry For being so untrue Well, you can cry me a river Cry me a river I cried a river over you You drove me, Nearl...

Do you love me Can we still be a part of tomorrow Do you want me baby, baby Or is this just a thing of the past Need to feel your arms around me I can't stand it whenever you're gone Ever since the day you found me I've been hooked on your kiss, but I know no...

You got a way of loving me But I just don't get it I must be out of my mind You got a way of holding me And it's so dramatic Sometimes I just want to cry 'cause it scares me, boy, when you get so close And I'm feeling too many feelings No I never wanted to sh...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Words like violence break the silence Come crashing in, into my little world Painful to me, pierce right through me Can't you understand I am a little girl? All I ever wanted, all I ever needed Is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They ca...

You're a young man, a sweet guy Handsome, kinda shy You got a nice car, a steady job Money you got plenty of What can I give a man with everything Just one thing you need You need one lovin' woman Every home should have one Two hearts filled with passion Mak...

When I look into my heart I feel All of the hurt that was there Then I look into your eyes and see All of the joys that we've both shared I don't wanna wish for love too hard But now all my dreams are of you And if dreams come true Then you'll be my first tim...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ For once in my life I have got someone who needs me Someone I have needed so long For once in my life I can go where life leads me Somehow I know I'll be strong For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of Long before I knew Someone...

I don't know what you do to me But this feeling is here to be I hope it's love and one day we'll see the moon Take my hand and we'll fly away A love so new till the dying day A life so true all you have to say is you will You've got to believe in something Y...

Sweet thing, stay with me tonight Take me into love Whispers, wine and candle light Baby, we can feel so good So won't you come to me Lay down in meticulously Let me show you my secret side Oh, baby can't you see We're there for together it seems We got plea...

Everytime I get to see you I get this feeling it's so fuzzy inside And as soon as I walk away from you I'm still tasting your kiss saving it in my mind Its not everyday I find A guy that makes me smile all the time Not the way that you do Because I thought I u...

You may be an ambassador to England or France You might like to gamble, you might like to dance You may be the heavyweight champion of the world You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls But you're gonna have to serve somebody You're gonna have to s...

In old Savannah, I said, Savannah The weather there is nice and warm The climate's of a southern brand But here's what I don't understand They got a gal there, a pretty gal there Who's colder than an Arctic storm Got a heart just like a stone Even ice men lea...

Sweet and pure that's for sure And you'll always know When you're hearing Ella sing Cool and hot bobble your back If you're not grooving then you are not Hearing Ella sing She sang with Bing and Frank and Nat On everything from jazz to scat You bet your bott...

Here I am And I want you to see, baby I wanna watch you watchin' me in motion To taste the secret side of me Every time I look at you, I know You're fighting your emotions Now you have no choice but to let go And dive into my ocean Honey for the bees Sugar n...

Every honey bee fills with jealousy When they see you out with me I don't blame them, goodness knows My honeysuckle rose Flowers droop and sigh when you're passing by And I know the reason why You're much sweeter, goodness knows You're my honeysuckle rose I...

How can I be sure in a world that's constantly changing? How can I be sure where I stand with you? Whenever I, whenever I am away from you I wanna die 'cause you know I wanna stay with you. How do I know? Maybe you're trying to use me. Flying too high can con...

How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last? How do keep the song from fading Too fast? How do you lose yourself to someone And never lose your way? How do you not run out of new things To say? And since we know we're always changing How can i...

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, yeah, there's Heaven It's where you are Somewhere there's musi...

I've been listening to the sounds of the night Waiting for you to come around and hold me tight I've been wanting you right here by my side I don't care what you've gotta do Just get here in a rush Every part of me aches for you It keeps getting stronger. I h...

Oh, I can cook, too, on top of the rest, My seafood's the best in the town. And I can cook, too. My fish can't be beat, My sugar's the sweetest around. I'm a man's ideal of a perfect meal Right down to the demi-tasse. I'm a pot of joy for a hungry boy,...

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 wanna be loved with inspiration I wanna be loved starting tonight Instead of merely holding conversation Come on and hold me tight Come on and hold me tight I wanna be loved, I crave affection, Those kisses of yours, I’d gladly share, I want your eyes to...

There were words left unsaid And things left undone But we just seemed to run out of time But I feel you out there Just as warm as the sun And I hold you so close In my mind I see your face in a window pane I look again, it was only the rain Return to a place...

if I believed in paradise I'd swear I must be there I'd swear I must be there right now with you if I believed in miracles I'd know that one was happening to me but if I don't believe in paradise and miracles aren't real then someone tell me what is this I fee...

Sunshine, that is what I try to follow Long time, searching for a new tomorrow I'm always in and out of love Dawning, love is always round the corner Working, trying to fill a special order Still falling in and out of love Now I know just how I want to be I...

Although music is sweet But the song incomplete Now in my life, Boy in my life Something is missing It's the truth, yes it's true Still there's no me and you Here in my life Boy in my life Something is missing In my life there ain't no melody oh no...

I've seen the many shades of love in my life Until I met you no one shined so bright Some say that passion can't survive for very long But I get this feeling you and I can make them wrong 'Cause it's gonna be special This love for you and me, just wait and se...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ It's a lazy afternoon And the beetle bugs are zooming And the tulip trees are blooming And there's not another human But us two It's a lazy afternoon And the farmer leaves his reaping And the meadow cows are sleeping And the speckled trouts stop...

Sometime in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to l...

If I'm just a toy you're gonna play with If I'm not the girl you're gonna stay with Then don't take all my love Don't let me give you all my love No no no 'Cause I want you to leave a little love in my heart Yeah, leave a little love so when we part If...

Since you left me, I never really tried To put my life at where it should belong And I've always let the past come back I'm realizing that it could be wrong But now I fin'lly knew I had to let it go To make way for a brighter tomorrow So now I'm leavi...

Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell Do me a favor, open the door And let 'em in Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell Someone's knockin' at the door Somebod...

I can be so selfish, sad and moody I can hear my mama talking to me She said, 'Girl, you need to change your attitude' I come home tired and I'm rude to you And I've got a little problem with 'I'm sorry' I say go to hell and in a hurry And if that hurts, I ge...

I don't want to be always trying to make you see I've listened to the doubts on your mind You have to know that changes what will keeps us strong And that my independence doesn't have to be wrong Let me be me, whatever that means Don't see this change as a th...

Hope they never end this song This could take us all night long I looked at the moon and I felt blue Then I looked again and I saw you Eyes like fire in the night Bridges burning with their light Now I want to spend the whole night through And Honey, Yes, I'd...

Before Lord God made the sea and the land, He held all the stars in the palm of his hand. And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand, And one little star fell alone. Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air For the little dark star on the...

Love letters straight from your heart Keep us so near while we part I'm not alone in the night When I can have all the love you write I memorize every line I kiss the name that you sign And darling then I read again Right from the start Love letters straight...

I wanna say I love you I wanna say I care Even though you may not feel the same I'm not afraid to wait 'Cause I know you'll change Love ends and so love begins my friend Love me again If love were a road, I'd be walking If you would steal the key, I'd be hom...

Maybe Oh if I could pray and I try, dear You might come back home, home to me Maybe Whoa, if I could ever hold your little hand Oh you might understand Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe dear I guess I might have done somethin...

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today Madam Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today And she's sorry to be delayed But last evening down at lover's lane she strayed Madam Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today When she woke up and found t...

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....

And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain I've lived a life that's full I traveled each and every highway And more, much more than this I did it my way Regrets, I've h...

I was lost, filled with hesitation Without a plan, no determination Until we met, you were my salvation And now I know There's nothing I can't do in my life As long as I have you in my life You let me see the strength I have so deep inside Now I believe I kno...

Every shine and sleep Every good bye and gone Every hello didn't just come around Everything that you see Ain't the sunset of .. looks like You are flat on the ground .. what you see I look up to you You look down on me We really should see eye to eye Don't yo...

Cigarette holder which wigs me Over his shoulder, he digs me. He's cattin' that satin doll. Baby, can't we go out steppin ? Careful, amigo, you're trippin', Speaks Latin that satin doll. He's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll gonna give it...

Don't you know that I want to be more than just your friend Holdin' hands is fine, but I've got better things on my mind You know it could happen if you'd only see me in a different light Maybe when we finally get together, you will see that I was right S...

Pressure slowly buildin' like a sky about to rain Somethin' so electric in the air All this time we?re killin' only leads us back again To the feeling that?s been waitin? for us here It?s too late to be cautious If it?s a mistake, it?s one we?re meant to make...

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, in your eyes' So I chaffed them...

Once I was a sentimental thing Throw my heart away each Spring Now a Spring romance Hasn't got a chance Promised my first dance to Winter All I've got to show's a splinter For my little fling Spring, this year has got me feeling like a horse That never left t...

On a night so right for love, where a silver moon is shining In the shadow of the willow I fell for you. Who could write this storyline Who could paint this perfect picture They say love is blind, for us it came as no surprise You and I had stars in our eyes....

You're alone all the time Does it ever puzzle you Have you asked why You seem to fall in love and out again Do you really ever love Or just pretend, oh, baby Why fool yourself Don't be afraid to help yourself It's never too late, too late to Stop, look, yes,...

Love laughs at a king Kings don't mean a thing On the street of dreams Dreams broken in two can be made like new On the street of dreams Gold, sliver and gold All you can hold is in the moonbeams Poor, no one is poor Long as love is sure On the street of drea...

CHORUS We ought to go away to that secret place Why don't we leave today to that secret place For (Repeat) A paradise of With the sand and the waves so blue A beautiful amber sky No one there but you! Chorus... 

Maybe you know the reason that I love you Maybe you don't but I dont really care Maybe you'll see the forest for the trees, babe Maybe you'll see the things that I don't dare Maybe I know just how to turn on, babe Maybe I know just how to make you smile M...

A bird is born to fly, born for the moment, it takes to the sky And all its dreams are riding on its wings But if it falls, the dreams aren't broken As long as the wind is fair, the sky is always there Oh, the girl who used to be me, she could fly, she was fr...

In the heat of heat The heat is so hot My body takes control In the heat of heat The heat gets so hot My passion overloads A lonely room until you walked in Too positive to ignore This sensual curiosity Affecting me like no other has before I see your face a...

The look of love Is in your eyes The look your smile can’t disguise The look of love Is saying so much more Than just words could ever say And what my heart has heard Well, it takes my breath away I can hardly wait to hold you Feel my arms around you How long...

The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that No, no, they can't take that away from me The way your smile just beams The way you sing off key The way you haunt my dreams No, no, they can't take that away from me We may never, nev...

For the first time in my life Boy, I'm not afraid of saying How I really feel inside We don't have to go on waiting Just think about it Together you and I I could never try to write a better story For the pages of my life you must have written for me 'Cause ev...

Be wise, be smart, behave, my heart Dont upset your cart when shes so close Be soft, be sweet, but be discreet Dont go off your feet, he's so close for comfort Too close, too close for comfort, please, not again Too close, too close to know just when to say w...

I give to you and you give to me True love, true love So on and on it will always be True love, true love For you and I, have a guardian angel on high With nothin' to do But to give to you and to give to me Love forever true For you and I, have a guardian an...

Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy lin...

What a diff'rence a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear Today I'm part of you, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since you said you were mine What a diff'rence a day...

I saw her today at the reception She had a glass of wine in her hand I knew she was gonna meet her connection And at her feet there was her footloose man You can't always get what you want I said you can't always get what you want You know you can't always ge...

Time asks no questions, it goes on without you Leaving you behind if you cannot stand the pace The world it keeps on spinning, can't stop it if you tried to The best part is danger staring you in the face Listen as your day unfolds Challenge what your future...

PA-Lover you, brought me love You gave me peace of mind And never asking for anything back You changed my life JM-Lover you, brought me hope You gave me reason to try For once it's my turn to show you You'll always be the only one You gave me all you've got...

The concert was over in Carnegie Hall The maestro took bow after bow He said, "My dear friends I have given my all. I'm sorry, it's all over now." When from the balcony way up high There suddenly came a mournful cry Oh, Mr. Paganini Please play my rhapsody An...