NAT KING COLE – When Sunny Gets Blue

When Sunny gets blue, her eyes get gray and cloudy
Then the rain begins to fall, pitter-patter, pitter-patter
Love is gone, what can matter
No sweet lover man comes to call

When Sunny gets blue, she breaths a sigh of sadness
Like the wind that stirs the trees
Wind that sets the leaves to swaying
Like some violin is playing strange and haunting melodies

People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile
That’s how she got her name
Since that sad affair, she lost her smile, changed her style
Somehow she’s not the same

But memories will fade and pretty dreams will rise up
Where her other dreams fell through
Hurry new love, hurry here, to kiss away each lonely tear
And hold her near when Sunny gets blue

People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile
That’s how she got her name
Since that sad affair, she lost her smile, changed her style
Somehow she’s not the same

Hurry new love, hurry here, to kiss away each lonely tear
And hold her near when Sunny gets blue

NAT KING COLE – Too Marvelous For Words

I search for phrases
To sing your praises
But there aren’t any magic adjectives
To tell you all you are!

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamorous
And that old standby, amorous

It’s all too wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean, they just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
And just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary

And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words

NAT KING COLE – This Can’t Be Love

This can’t be love because I feel so well
No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs
This can’t be love, I get no dizzy spells
My head is not in the skies

My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat
This is too sweet to be love
This can’t be love because I feel so well
But still I love to look in your eyes, oh yeah

My heart does not stand still, just hear it beat
Oh, it’s too sweet to be love
This can’t be love because I feel so well
But still I love to look in your eyes
But still I love to look in your eyes

NAT KING COLE – These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)

A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places,
And still my heart has wings…
These foolish things remind me of you.

A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
A fairground’s painted swings…
These foolish things remind me of you.

You came, you saw,
You conquered me.
When you did that to me,
I knew somehow this had to be.

The winds of March that made my heart a dancer,
A telephone that rings,
And who’s to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings…
These foolish things remind me of you.

The first daffodil and long excited cables,
And candle lights on little corner tables,
And still my heart has wings…
These foolish things remind me of you.

The park at evening when the bell has sounded,
The ‘Ile-de-France’ with all the gulls around it,
The beauty that is spring’s…
These foolish things remind me of you.

How strange, how sweet
To find you still,
These things are dear to me,
They seem to bring you near to me.

The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,
Silk stockings tossed aside, dance invitations.
Oh, how the ghost of you clings!
These foolish things remind me of you…

These foolish things remind me of you.

NAT KING COLE – There Will Never Be Another You

This is our last dance together,
Tonight soon will be long ago.
And in our moment of parting,
This is all I want you to know…

There will be many other nights like this,
And I’ll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing,
Another fall…another spring…
But there will never be another you.

There will be other lips that I may kiss,
But they won’t thrill me,
Like yours used to do.
Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be another you?

Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be…
Another you?

NAT KING COLE – The Girl From Ipanema

Tall and tan
And young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema
Goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes
Oooh
When she walks
She’s like a samba
That swings so cool
And sways so gentle
That when she passes
Each one she passes goes
Oooh
Oh
But I watch her so sadly
How can I tell her
I love her?
Yes
I would give
My heart gladly
But each day
When she walks
To the sea
She looks
Straight ahead
Not at me

Tall and tan
And young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema
Goes walking
And when she passes
I smile
But she doesn’t see

(Ooh)
Oh
But I watch her
So sadly
How can I tell her
I love her?
Yes
I would give
My heart gladly
But each day
When she walks
To the sea
She looks
Straight ahead
Not at me

Tall and tan
And young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema
Goes walking
And when she passes
I smile
But she doesn’t see
And when she passes
I smile
But she doesn’t see
She doesn’t
She doesn’t
She doesn’t see

NAT KING COLE – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide 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 find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa’s on his way
He’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother’s child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly

And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you

And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you

NAT KING COLE – Thanks To You

Thank you for teaching me how to love
Showing me what the world means
What I’ve been dreaming of
And now I know there is nothing that I could not do
Thanks to you

For teaching me how to feel
Showing me my emotions
Letting me know what’s real
From what is not

What I’ve got is more
That I’d ever hoped for
And a lot of what I hope for is
Thanks to you

No mountain, no valley
No time, no space
No heartache, no heartbreak
No fall from grace

Can’t stop me from believing
That my love will pull me through
Thanks to you

There’s no mountain, no valley
No time, no space
No heartache, no heartbreak
No fall from grace

Can’t stop me from believing
That my love will see me through
Thanks to you
Thanks to you

For teaching me how to live
Putting things in perspective
Teaching me how to give
And how to take

No mistake
We were put here together
And if I breakdown
Forgive me but it’s true

That I’m aching
With the love I feel inside
Thanks to you
Thanks to you

NAT KING COLE – Stardust

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 yesterday
The music of the years gone by

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain

NAT KING COLE – Pick Yourself Up

Pick yourself up…
Take a deep breath…
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.

Nothing’s impossible, I have found
For when my chin is on the ground.
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off
And start all over again.

Don’t lose your confidence
If you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.

Work like a soul inspired
Until the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you’ll be a man, my son.

Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again
They picked themselves up
Dust themselves off
And start’d all over again.

[Interlude]

Work like a soul inspired
Till the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you’ll be a man, my son.

Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath…
Pick yourself up…
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.

NAT KING COLE – Our Love Is Here To Stay

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
In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble
They’re only made of clay but our love is here to stay

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble
They’re only made of clay but our love is here to stay

NAT KING COLE – Near You

There’s just one place for me
Near you
It’s like heaven to be
Near you

Times when we’re apart
I can’t face my heart
Say you’ll never stray
More than just two lips away

If my hours could be spent
Near you
I’d be more than content
Near you
Make my life worthwhile
By telling me that I’ll
Spend the rest of my days
Near you [x2]

I’ll spend the rest of my days
Near you
Spend the rest of my days
Near you (and fade)

NAT KING COLE – Love Is The Thing

What does it matther if we’re rich
Or we are poor?
Fortune and fame they never endure

Oh love is the thing, love is the thing!

What good is money if your heart is all right?
Here in your arms I’m wealthy tonight
For youth has its flame

Love is the thing!

While others fight for power
We can walk among the flowers
Knowing that the best thing in life
Is a thing that is free
Love for you and me
And even though our castles crumb and fall
We have the right to laugh at them all
For love is still keen

Love is the thing!

NAT KING COLE – Look What You’ve Done To Me

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 like to spend it all on you

Love, look what you’ve done to me
Never thought I’d fall again so easily
Oh, love, you wouldn’t lie to me
Leading me to feel this way

They might fade and turn to stone
Let’s get crazy all alone
Hold me closer than you’d ever dare
Close your eyes and I’ll be there
After all is said and done
After all you are the one
Take me up your stairs and through the door
Take me where we don’t care anymore

Love, look what you’ve done to me
Never thought I’d fall again so easily
Oh, love, you wouldn’t lie to me would you
Leading me to feel this way

Love, look what you’ve done to me
Never thought I’d fall again so easily
Oh, love, you wouldn’t lie to me
Leading me to feel this way

NAT KING COLE – You Stepped Out Of A Dream

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,
And have you all to myself,
Alone and apart.
Out of a dream
Safe into my heart.

You
Stepped out of a cloud,
I want to take you away
Away from the crowd,
And have you all to myself,
Alone and apart.
Out of a dream,
Safe into my heart…
Wa-dee-la-la
Out of a dream!

NAT KING COLE – It’s Only A Paper Moon

It is only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn’t be make-believe
If you believe in me

It is only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn’t be make-believe
If you believe in me

Without your love
It’s a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It’s a melody played
In a penny arcade

It’s a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn’t be make-believe
If you believe in me

Without your love
It’s a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It’s a melody played
In a penny arcade

It’s a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn’t be make-believe
If you believe in me

NAT KING COLE – It’s A Lonesome Old Town

It’s a lonesome old town, when you’re not around, I’m lonely, as I can be.
I never knew how much I missed you, but now I can plainly see.
It’s a lonesome old town, when you’re not around,
How I wish you’d come back to me.

I never knew how much I missed you, but now I can plainly see.
It’s a lonesome old town, when you’re not around,
How I wish you’d come back to me.
How I wish you’d come back to me

NAT KING COLE – It’s All In The Game

Many a tear has to fall
But its all in the game
All in the wonderful game
That we know as love
You have words with him
And your futures looking dim
But these things your heart can rise above
Once in a while he wont call
But its all in the game
Soon hell be there at your side
With a sweet bouquet
And hell kiss your lips
And caress your waiting fingertips
And your heart will fly away
[Repeat]

NAT KING COLE – I’m In The Mood For Love

I’m in the mood for love
Simply because you’re near me.
Funny, but when you’re near me
I’m in the mood for love.

Heaven is in your eyes
Bright as the stars we’re under
Oh! Is it any wonder
I’m in the mood for love?

Why stop to think of whether
This little dream might fade?
We’ve put our hearts together
Now we are one, I’m not afraid!

If there’s a cloud above
If it should rain we’ll let it
But for tonight, forget it!
I’m in the mood for love

NAT KING COLE – (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ll give you my heart

I love you and you alone were meant for me
Please give your loving heart to me
And say we’ll never part

I think of you every morning
Dream of you every night
Darling, I’m never lonely
Whenever you are in sight

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ve given you my heart

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ve given you my heart