Natalie Cole Album

The very thought of you,
and I forget to do,
the little ordinary things
that everyone ought to do.

I'm living in a kind of daydream.
I'm happy as a king.
And foolish though it may seem
to me, that's everything.

The mere idea of you,
the longing here for you…
You'll never know how slow the moments go
‘til I'm near to you.

I see your face in every flower,
your eyes in stars above.
It's just the thought of you,
the very thought of you,
my love.

The mere idea of you,
the longing here for you…
You'll never know how slow the moments go
‘til I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower,
your eyes in stars above.
It's just the thought the of you,
the very thought of you,
my love.

I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place
Mmm... A bubble for a minute
Mmm... you smile
The bubble has a rainbow in it


Say it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Yes it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky tank parade
With out 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 believed in me, oh...

[scat]

Yes it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed 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 believed in me

[scat p.2]

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 L.A.
More than two-thousand miles all the way
Get your kicks, on Route 66.

Now you go through Saint Looey
And Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty
You'll 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 Cal-i-fornia trip
Get your kicks, on Route 66

[solos: bass, piano]

Won't you... get hip to this timely tip
When you make, that Cal-i-fornia trip

Get your kicks, on Route, 66
Come on and get your kicks, on Route 6-6
Get your kicks, on Route 66

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 style

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 door step

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

- Musical 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 door step

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

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you

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.


(Instrumental interlude)

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.
Still I love to look in your eyes.

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky you'll get by
If you smile through your fear 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 maybe 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 worth while
If you just smile
Oh that's the time you must keep on trying

Smile what's the use of crying
You'll find that life is still worth while
If you just smile

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-tails

Then you came along with your siren song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for awhile that your poignant smile
Was tinged with a 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...

Words and Music by Geo David Weiss and Joe Sherman

(If I had to choose just one day)

If I had to choose just one day to last my whole life through

It would surely be that Sunday; the day that I met you

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills

Summer was a coming in but fast

Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills

Nodding all together, I can almost hear them whisper

Go on kiss him; go on and kiss him

If I had to choose one moment to live within my heart

It would be that tender moment recalling how we started

Darling it would be when you smiled at me

That way, that Sunday, that Summer

Musical Interlude

Go on kiss him; go on and kiss him

And if I had to choose just one moment

To live within my heart it would surely be that moment

Recalling how we started

Darling it would be when you smiled at me

That way, that Sunday, that summer

(If I had to choose just one day)

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

Wham

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 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 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 pocadot sky

Flash

Bam

Ali-ca-zam
And Coloooooooooooooooored sky

[For Sentimental Reasons]
I love you, for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I'll give 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're in sight

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


[Tenderly]
The evening breeze, caressed the trees
Tenderly
The trembling trees, embraced the breeze
Tenderly

Then you and I
Came wandering by
And lost in the sight, were we

The shore was kissed, by sea and mist
Tenderly
I can't forget, how two hearts met
Breathlessly

Your arms open wide, and close me inside
You took my lips, you took my love
So tenderly

Your arms open wide, and close me inside
You took my lips, you took my love
So tenderly


[Autumn Leaves]
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 darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

Mais la vie spare ceux qui saiment
Tout doucement sans faire de bruit
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall...

A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air
Monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But 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 of 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 will set you free"
The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye
And said "Your story's so touching but it sounds 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

[interlude]

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 of jivin'
You better, straighten up and fly right
Cool down papa don't you blow your top

Fly right

I found my love at Avalon
Beside the bay
I left my love at Avalon
And sailed away
I dream of him at Avalon
From dusk until dawn
And so I think I'll travel on
To Av-va-lon


Yes I found my love at Avalon
Beside the bay
I left my love at Avalon
And sailed away
Oh I, dream of him at Avalon
From dusk until dawn
And so I think I'll travel on
To Av...va-lon...

Missed the saturday dance
Heard they crowded the floor
Couldn't bear it without you
Don't get around much anymore

Thought I'd visit the club
Got as far as the door
They'd have asked me about you
Don't get around much anymore

Darling, I guess my mind's more at ease
But nevertheless, why stir up memories

Been invited on dates
Might have gone but what for
Awfully different without you
Don't get around much anymore

Album: Unforgettable: With Love
Composers: Sylvia Dee and Sidney Lippman

They tried to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that loves 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

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

There was a boy...
A very strange enchanted boy

They say he wondered very far, very far
Over land and sea

A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
One magic day, passed my way


And as 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"

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 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 little 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

I love you, yes I do

What a day this has been
What a rare mood I'm in
Why it's almost like being in love
There's a smile on my face
For the whole human race
Why it's almost like being in love
there's a music of life; seems to be
Like a bell that is ringing for me
And from the way that I feel
When that bell starts to peel
I would swear I was falling, swear I was falling


- It's almost like being in love

(Instrumental)

The music of life seems to be
Like a bell that is ringing just for me
And from the way that I feel
When that bell starts to peel
I would swear i was falling, swear i was falling
- It's almost like being in love

Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grandWouldst kiss me pretty? Wouldst hold my hand?Both thine eyes are cute too, what they do to meHear me holler, I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee

I'd feel so rich in a hut for twoTwo rooms and kitchen I'm sure would doGive me just a plot of, not a lot of landAnd thou swell, thou witty, thou grand

NATALIE COLE - Unforgattable - Non Dimenticar

Non Dimenticar,
Means don't forget your
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 clean
just because you're here
please do not forget


that our lips have meant
and I've held you tightly

was it dreams or though
my heart felt is ...
or just a night here

Non Dimenticar,
although you travel far
my darling
it's my heart you owe
so I'll wait alone
Non Dimenticar...

[No lyrics]

Unforgettable, that’s what you are
unforgettable, tho’ near or far.
Like a song of love that clings to me
is 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.

(piano & sax)

No, 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