Come to Me, Bend to Me

Come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day!
Darling, my darling, 'tis all I can say!

Just come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day!
Gvie me your lips an' don't take them away.

Come, dearie, near me so you can hear me,
I've got to whisper this softly.
For though I'm burnin' to shout my yearning,
The words come tiptoing off me.

Oh, come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day!
Darling my darling, 'tis all I can say.

Just come to me, bend to me, kiss me good day!
Give me your lips, give me your lips
And don't take them away
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He Loves and She Loves

He loves
And she loves
And they love so
Why can't you love
and I love too?

Birds love
And bees love
And whispering trees love
And that's what
We both should do.

I always knew some day
You'd come along
We'll make a twosome
That just can't go wrong,

Darling.
He loves
And she loves
And they love
So won't you love me
As I love you?

I always knew some day
You'd come along
We'll make a twosome
That just can't go wrong,

Darling.
He loves
And she loves
And they love
So won't you love me
As I love you?
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I'm Old-Fashioned

Im old fashioned
I love the moonlight
I love the old fashioned things

The sound of rain
Upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings

This years fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs holding hands
These my heart understands

I know Im old fashioned
But I dont mind it
Thats how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me

This years fancies
Are passing fancies
But sighing sighs holding hands
These my heart understands

Im old fashioned
But I dont mind it
Thats how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me
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It Might as Well be Spring

The things I used to like
I don't like anymore
I want a lot of other things
I've never had before
It's just like mother says
I sit around and mope
Pretending I am wonderful
And knowing I'm a dope

I'm as restless as willow in a wind storm
I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string
I'd say that I had spring fever
But I know it isn't spring

I'm starry eyed and vaguely discontented
Like a nightingale without a song to sing
Oh why should I have spring fever
When it isn't even spring

I keep wishing I were somewhere else
Walking down a strange new street
Hearing words that I have never heard
From a man I've yet to meet

I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydreams
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud
Or a robin on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way
That it might as well be spring
It might as well be spring
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Matelot

Charles Louis Dominique Pierre Buchard
True to the breed that bore him
Answered the call that held him thrall
His father's heart before him
Charles Louis Dominique sailed away
Further than love could find him
Yet through the night he heard a light
And gentle voice behind him say

Matelot, Matelot
Where you go my thoughts go with you
Matelot, Matelot
When you go down to the sea

As you gaze from afar
On the evening star
Wherever you may roam
You will remember the light
Through the winter night
That guides you safely home
Though you find womankind to be frail
One love cannot fail, my son
Till our days are done

Matelot, Matelot
Where you go my thoughts go with you
Matelot, Matelot
When you go down to the sea

Charles Louis Dominique Pierre Buchard
Journeyed the wide world over
Lips that he kissed could not resist
This loving roving rover
Charles Louis Dominique, right or wrong
Ever pursued a new love
Till in his brain there beat a strain
He knew to be his true love song

Matelot, Matelot
Where you go my heart goes with you
Matelot, Matelot
When you go down to the sea

For a year and a day
You may sail away
And have no thought of me
Yet through the wind and the spray
You will hear me say
No love was ever free
You will sigh when horizons are clear
Something that is dear to me
Cannot let me be

Matelot, Matelot
Where you go my heart goes with you
Matelot, Matelot
When you go down to the sea
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My Ship

My ship has sails that are made of silk
The decks are trimmed with gold
And of jam and spice
There's a paradise
In the hold

My ship's aglow with a million pearls
And rubies fill each bin
The sun sits high in a sapphire sky
When my ship comes in

I can wait the years
Till it appears
One fine day
One spring

But the pearls and such
They won't mean much
If there's missing just one thing

I do not care
If that day arrives
That dream need never be
If the ship I sing
Doesn't also bring
My own true love to me

If the ship I sing
Doesn't also bring
My own true love to me
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You're a Builder-Upper

You're a builder-upper
A breaker-downer
A holder-outer
And I'm a giver-inner
Sad but true
I'm a sap-a-roo, too
Takin' it from
A taker-over like you

Don't know where I'm at-ter
I'm just a this-sa
Then I'm a that-ta
A take-her-on-the-chinner
My my my, what a weakling am I
To love you as I do

Just when I'm ready to sob
You hand me a throb
And everything is hunky-dory
And that's my story
Open your arms
And I'm a foot for your charms

You're a builder-upper
A breaker-downer
A holder-outer
And I'm a giver-inner
Sad but true
I love it, I do
Being broken by
A builder-upper like you

Just when I'm ready to sob
You hand me a throb
And everything is hunky-dory
And that's my story
Open your arms
And I'm a foot for your charms

You're a builder-upper
A breaker-downer
A holder-outer
And I'm a giver-inner
Sad but true
I love it, I do
Being broken up
All broken up
Being broken by a builder-upper like you
Like you, like you
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Falling in Love with Love

Falling in love with love
Is falling for make believe
Falling in love with love
Is playing the fool
Caring too much
Is such a juvenile fancy
Learning to trust
Is just for children in school

I fell in love with love
One night when the moon was full
I was unwise
With eyes unable to see
I fell in love with love
With love everlasting
But love fell out with me

I fell in love with love
One night when the moon was full
I was unwise
With eyes unable to see
I fell in love with love
With love everlasting
But love fell out with me
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Cheek to Cheek

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 lucky streak
When we're out together
Dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek

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
Cheek to cheek
Cheek to cheek
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Little Old Lady

Little old lady passing by
Catching everyone's eye
You have such a charming manner
Sweet and shy

Little old bonnet set in place
And a smile on your face
You're a perfect picture
In your lavender and lace

Little bit of business here
Little bit of business there
Bet that you've been window shopping
All around the square

Little old lady, time for tea
Here's a kiss, two or three
You're just like that little old lady
I hold dear to me

You have such a charming manner
Sweet and shy

You're a perfect picture
In your lavender and lace

Little bit of business here
Little bit of business there
Bet that you've been window shopping
All around the square

Little old lady, time for tea
Here's a kiss, two or three
You're just like that little old lady
I hold dear to me
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So in Love

Strange dear but true dear
When I'm closed to you dear
The stars fill the sky
So in love with you am I

Even without you
My arms fold about you
You know darling why
So in love with you am I

In love with a night mysterious
The night when you first were there
In love with my joy delirious
When I knew that you would care

So taunt me and hurt me
Deceive me desert me
I'm yours till I die
So in love, so in love
So in love with you my love, am I
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We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring

Although you're far away
And life is sad and grey
I have a scheme, a dream to try
I'm thinking, dear, of you
And all I mean to do
When we're together, you and I

We'll gather lilacs in the spring again
And walk together down a shady lane
Until our hearts have learned to sing again
When you come home once more

And in the evening by the firelight's glow
You'll hold me close and never let me go
Your eyes will tell me all I want to know
When you come home once more

Your eyes will tell me all I want to know
When you come home once more