Nat King Cole Album

A buzzard took a monkey for a ride
in the air,
The monkey thought that everything
was on the square.
The buzzard tried to throw the
monkey
off his back,
The monkey grabbed his neck and
said,
"Now listen, Jack..."

Straighten up and fly right,
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow
your top.
Ain't no use in divin',
What's the use in jivin'?
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow
your top.

The buzzard told the monkey,
You are chokin' me.
Release your hold and I'll set you
free.
The monkey looked the buzzard right
dead in the eye and said,
Your story's so touching, but it
sounds
just like a lie.

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow
your top.

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow
your top.

Ain't no use in divin'
Ain't no good in jivin'
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow -
your - top.

Fly right!

(Mitchell Parish, Cliff Burwell)

Just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy, baby boy
With another brand new choo-choo choy
When I met my sweet Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine.

A pair of eyes
That are brighter than the summer sky
When you see them, you'll realize
Why I love my sweet Lorraine.

Now when it's rainin',
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho

Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine.

Now when it's rainin'
I don't miss the sun
Because it's in my baby's smile, whoa ho
And to think that I'm the lucky one
That will lead her down the aisle, whoa ho ho

Each night I pray
That no one will steal her heart away
I can't wait until that lucky day
When I marry sweet Lorraine.

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

If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way
Take the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66

It winds from Chicago to LA
More than two thousand miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66

Now you go through St. Louis
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty
You see Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona
Don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino

Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66


Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66

I love you
for sentimental reasons,
I hope you do believe me,
I've given 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.

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

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far,
very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in
return"

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in
return"

I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingué traces
That used to be there, you could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clock tales

Then you came along with your siren of song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your poignant smile
Was tinged with the sadness
of a great love for me

Ah yes, I was wrong
Again
I was wrong

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so sure
Now life is awful again
A troughful of hearts
Could only be a bore

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it

I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still
Burning inside my brain

Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush life
In some small dive

And there I'll be
While I rot
With the rest of those
Whose lives are lonely, too

(Don George, Nathaniel Cole)


Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...
Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...


Sittin' by de ocean
Me heart, she feel so sad,
Sittin' by de ocean,
Me heart, she feel so sad...
Don't got de money
To take me back to Trinidad.


Fine calypso woman,
She cook me shrimp and rice,
Fine calypso woman,
She cook me shrimp and rice...
Dese yankee hot dogs
Don't treat me stomach very nice.


In Trinidad, one dollar buy
Papaya juice, banana pie,
Six coconut, one female goat,
An' plenty fish to fill de boat.


One bushel bread, one barrel wine,
An' all de town, she come to dine.
But here is bad, one dollar buy
Cup of coffee, ham on rye.


Me throat she sick from necktie,
Me feet hurt from shoes.
Me pocket full of empty,
I got Calypso blues.


Dese yankee girl give me big scare,
Is black de root, is blonde de hair.
Her eyelash false, her face is paint,
And pads are where de girl she ain't!


She jitterbug when she should waltz,
I even think her name is false.
But calypso girl is good a lot,
Is what you see, is what she got.


Sittin' by de ocean
Me heart, she feel so sad,
Sittin' by de ocean,
Me heart, she feel so sad...
Don't got de money
To take me back to Trinidad.


Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...
Wa-oo-oo, wa-oo-oo,
Wa-oo wa-oo wa-oo wa-ay...


(Repeat chant to fade)

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have
named you
You're so like the lady with the
mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they
have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in
your smile?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona
Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken
heart?
Many dreams have been brought to
your doorstep
They just lie there and they die
there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona
Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work
of art?

instrumental interlude

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona
Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken
heart?
Many dreams have been brought to
your doorstep
They just lie there and they die
there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona
Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work
of art?

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa

I was walking along
mindin' my business
when out of the orange colored sky

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam

wonderful you came by

I was hummin' a tune
drinkin' in sunshine
when out of that orange colored
view

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam

I got'a look at you

one look an i yelled "timber"
watch out for flying glass
Cause the celing fell in
and the bottom fell out
I went in to a spin
and i started to shout
"I've been hit, this is it, this is it...I-
T-it!"

I was walking along
mindin' my business
when love came and hit me in the
eye

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam
out of the orange colored sky

well, one look and i yelled "timber"
watch out for flying glass

Cause the celing fell in
and the bottom fell out
I went in to a spin
and i started to shout
"I've been hit, this is it, this is it, I-T-
it!"

I was walkin' along
mindin' my business
when love came and hit me in the
eye

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam
out of that orange colored purple
striped pretty green polkadot sky

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam
And Good Bye

(WOW! I thought love was much
softer than that...what a most
disturbing sound!)

They try to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that love's a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know the meaning
of

And yet we're not too young to
know
This love will last though years may
go
And then some day they may recall
We were not too young at all

--Instrumental--

And yet we're not too young to
know
This love will last though years may
go
And then some day they may recall
We were not too young at all

Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things
to me
Never before has someone been
more

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll
stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too

(instrumental interlude)

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll
stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position #8 in 1952
-Words by Sammy Gallop and Music by Kurt Adams


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
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night I start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now I look for you
Along the avenue
And as I wander I pray
That some day soon I'll find you
Somewhere along the way

I should forget
But with the loneliness of night I start remembering ev'rything
You're gone and yet
There's still a feeling deep inside
That you will always be part of me

So now I look for you
Along the avenue
And as I wander I pray
That some day soon I'll find you
Somewhere along the way
Somewhere along the way

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position #8 in 1952
-Words and Music by Roy Turk and Fred Ahlert in 1930
-charted in 1931 by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), the Charleston
-Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18).
-also charted in 1952 by Johnnie Ray at # 4
-title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy
-Hackett, and Scatman Crothers


Gee, it's great after bein' out late
Walkin' my baby back home
Arm in arm over meadow and farm
Walkin' my baby back home

We go 'long harmonizing a song
Or I'm recitin' a poem
Owls go by and they give me the eye
Walkin' my baby back home

We stop for a while, she gives me a smile
And snuggles her head on my chest
We start in to pet and that's when I get
Her talcum all over my vest

After I kinda straighten my tie
She has to borrow my comb
Once kiss then I continue again
Walkin' my baby back home

She's 'fraid of the dark so I have to park
Outside of her door till it's light
She says if I try to kiss her she'll cry
I dry her tears all through the night

Hand in hand to a barbecue stand
Right from her doorway we roam
Eats and then it's a pleasure again
Walkin' my baby
Talkin' my baby
Lovin' my baby
I don't mean maybe
Walkin' my baby back home

Pretend you're happy when you're
blue
it isn't very hard to do
and you'll find happiness without an
end
whenever you pretend
remember anyone can dream
and nothing's as bad as it may seem
the little things you haven't got could
be a lot if you pretend
you'll find a love you can share
one you can call all your own
just close your eyes she'll be there
you'll never be alone
and if you sing this melody
you'll be pretending just like me
the world is mine it can be yours my
friend
so why don't you pretend

[No lyrics]

[No lyrics]

Answer me, oh, my love
Just what sin have I been guilty of?
Tell me how I came to lose your love
Please answer me, sweetheart

You were mine yesterday
I believed that love was here to stay
Won't you tell me where I've gone astray?
Please answer me, my love

If you're happier without me
I'll try not to care
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer

You must know I've been true
Won't you say that we can start anew?
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please answer me, my love

(If you're happier without me)
(I'll try not to care)
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer

You must know (you must know)I've been true (I've been true)
Won't you say that we can start anew?
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please answer me, my love

Answer me, my love

Smile, tho' your heart is aching,
Smile, even tho' it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky,
You'll get by
If you smile
Through your fears and sorrow
Smile ~ and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining
through
For you.

Light up your face with gladness,
Hide every trace of sadness.
Although a tear
May be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on
trying,
Smile ~ what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'll just smile.

~interlude~

That's the time you must keep on
trying
Smile ~ what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'll just smile.

Darling, je vous aime beaucoup
Je ne sais pas what to do
You know you've completely
Stolen my heart

Morning, noon and nighttime too
Toujours, wondering what to do
That's the way I've felt
Right from the start

Ah, Cheri!
My love for you is très, très fort
Wish my French were good enough
I'd tell you so much more

But I hope that you compris
All the things you mean to me
Darling, je vous aime beaucoup
I love you, yes I do

Wish my French were good enough
I'd tell you so much more

But I hope that you compris
All the things you mean to me
Darling, je vous aime beaucoup
I love you, yes I do

(Darling, je vous aime beaucoup)
I love you, yes I do

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 23 in 1955
-Words and Music by Hal Hester and Barry Parker


If I find peace of mind in the sand and the sea
There's a hope in my heart that you'll soon be with me
There's a prayer that I share with the sand and the sea
And it cries "Come to me, come to me."

As my eyes search the skies from the edge of the shore
You are here in my arms for a moment or more
Then a tear rushes down to the sand and the sea
And it cries "Come to me, come to me."

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time I'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

But as long as there's sand, as long as there's sea
As long as there's time I'll wait hopefully
As long as there's heaven up above
Let the sand and the sea bring my love to me

(charles singleton, rose marie mccoy)
I'd like to love you everyday,If I may (if I may).And dream dreams of you every night,If I might (if I might).
And if I may, I'd like to sayI wish that you were mine.If I had you, all I would doIs adore you all the time.
I'd like to tell you of your charms everyday,If I may (if I may).I'd like to hold you in my arms every night,If I might (if I might).
You're the object of my affections,And if you have no objections,I'd like to love you night and day,If I may.

(I'd like to love you everyday,If I may.And dream dreams of you every night,If I might.)
(and if I may, I'd like to sayI wish that you were mine.If I had you, all I would doIs adore you all the time.)
I'd like to tell you of your charms everyday,If I may (if I may).I'd like to hold you in my arms every night,If I might (if I might).
You're the object of my affections,And if you have no objections,I'd like to love you night and day,If I may.

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 2 in 1955
-Words and Music by Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, and Dominic John


A blossom fell from off a tree
It settled softly on the lips you turned to me
The gypsies say and I know why
"A falling blossom only touches lips that lie"

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied



A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

[No lyrics]

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 11 in 1956
-Words by Sammy Gallop and Music by Chester Conn


Night lights, those blues-in-the-night lights
Are no longer bright lights since I'm without you
Sweet dreams, oh where did they fly to?
You're gone and who can I cry to?

Those night lights remind me of bright eyes
And beautiful white lies too good to be true
As I go on my way with all my heart I pray
That those night lights will lead me to you



Those night lights remind me of bright eyes
And beautiful white lies too good to be true
As I go on my way with all my heart I pray
That those night lights will lead me to you

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 18 in 1957
-previously charted in 1947 by Vaughn Monroe (#1)
-previously charted in 1948 by Buddy Clark (#5); Bing Crosby (#10); and Jimmy
-Dorsey (also #10)
-Words and Music by Bob Russell and Carl Sigman


Dance, ballerina, dance
And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart
Dance, ballerina, dance
You mustn't once forget a dancer has to dance the part

Whirl, ballerina, whirl
And just ignore the chair that's empty in the second row
This is your moment, girl
Although he's not out there applauding as you steal the show

Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance
Dance, dance!


Whirl ballerina


Once you said his love must wait its turn
You wanted fame instead
I guess that's your concern
We live and learn

And love is gone, ballerina, gone
So on with your career, you can't afford a backward glance
Dance on and on and on
A thousand people here have come to see the show
As 'round and 'round you go
So ballerina, dance

Dance

And now the purple dust 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 wanderd 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 nights, 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 grew
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
my stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain.

When you wantA true loverSend for me...send for meYou'll never wantAny otherSend for me...send for meI promise youI'll be trueSend for me...send for me
Anytime just tell meYour problemsAnd you'll find out, babyI'll solve 'emIf you're late one mornin'Don't hurryIf you've got big troubleDon't worryJust dependOn your friendSend for me...send for me
A-mornin', noon and nightIn the early brightDon't you fret, my pretty petI'm gonna treat you right

Don't you dareRaise a hairI'm gonna shareYour every careAnywhereOh, yeahSend for me...I'll be there
[Instrumental Interlude]
AnythingThat upsets youSend for me...send for meI'll be thereTo protect youWait and see...wait and seeDon't delayRight awaySend for me...send for me
It's gonna beTwiddle-deeeYes sirreeYou and meFaithfullySend for me

[No lyrics]

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 5 in 1958
-Words and Music by Clyde Otis, Brook Benton, and Belford Hendricks
-also charted by Joe Simon in 1969 at #70


Looking ba-a-ack over my life
I can see where I caused you strife
But I know, oh yes I know
I'd never make that same mistake again

Looking ba-a-ack over my deeds
I can see signs a wise man heeds
And if I just ha-ad the chance
I'd never make that same mistake again

Once my cup was overflowing
But I gave nothing in retu-u-urn
Now I can't begin to te-ell you
What a lesson I have learned

Looking ba-a-ack over the slate
I can see love turned to hate
But I know, oh yes I know
I'd never make that same mistake again

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 45 in 1958
-composed for the1951 italian film "anna" starring silvana magnano, raf vallone,
-and vittorio gassman
-italian words by michele galdieri and music by p.g. redi
-english words by shelley dobbins

Non dimenticar means don't forget you are my darling
Don't forget to be
All you mean to me
Non dimenticar my love is like a star, my darling
Shining bright and clear
Just because you're here

Please do not forget that our lips have met


And I've held you tight, dear
Was it dreams ago my heart felt this glow?
Or only just tonight, dear?

Non dimenticar although you travel far, my darling
It's my heart you own, so I'll wait alone
Non dimenticar

Se ci separ¨°, se ci allontan¨°
L'ala del destino
Non ne ho colpa, no, e mi sentiro sempre a te vicino

Non dimenticar although you travel far, my darling
It's my heart you own, so I'll wait alone
Non dimenticar

And then she hold my hand-
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
And then I understand-
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
Her eyes afire
With one desire.
Then a heavenly kiss:
Could I resist?

*And then I dim the light-
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
And then I hold her tight-
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
Her kiss, each fond caress,
They lead the way to happiness.
She takes me to paradise.

(Instrumental interlude and pick up at *.)

And when I dim the light,
Mm-mm-mm-mm, she's willing.
And when I hold her tight,
Mm-mm-mm-mm, it's thrilling.
Her kiss, each fond caress,
They lead the way to happiness.
She takes me to paradise.

[No lyrics]

[No lyrics]

(Dorothy Wayne, Ray Rauch)


(Chorus sings:)
Wild is love!
Wild is love!
Wild-wild-wild
Is love!


(Nat's spoken words:)
As a rule, man's a fool.
When it's hot, he wants it cool.
When it's cool, he wants it hot.
Always wanting
What is not.


(Nat Sings:)
Wild is love
Whenever two hearts meet,
Wild is love,
Bitter, but oh so sweet.


And I know
I must go
Wherever love takes me,
Whatever love makes me,
I will be!


Like a fire
Burning beyond control,
Wild is love
Deep in my heart and soul


And though wild as the wind
And wild as the rolling sea,
Nothing could ever be
As wild as love.


~interlude~


And I know
I must go
Wherever love takes me,
Whatever love makes me,
I will be!


~interlude~


And though wild is the wind
And wild is the rolling sea,
Nothing could ever be
As wild as love...
As wild as love...
As wild as love...
As wild is love!