Queen Latifah Album

(Leonard Feather)

[This song was a hit for Dinah
Washington in 1949 and was also
covered by Billie Holiday]

Well good morning baby welcome
back to town
How'd, fine papa, welcome back to
town
You're doing so much travelling never
know
When you'll be around

You're a fine and mellow fellow
But you're stubborn as a mule
You love me like an angel
But you treat me like a fool

Two-faced daddy don't hand me no
doublecross
You'll see any time I'm ready
I can tell you baby get lost
You're cheating on the outside

Doing anything you choose
You better come back on the inside
'cause you got too much to lose
Don't want no trouble I've got to be
the boss
And if you can't play it my way
Well now baby get lost

I try to stop your cheating
But I just don't have the time
'cause I got so many men that
They're standing right in line
Keep cool papa, you got to corne
across
'cause any time I'm ready, yes any
time I'm ready
You know when I'm ready
I can tell you baby get lost
Why don't you get lost

(Screamin' Jay Hawkins)

[Inspired by Nina Simone's 1965
cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1956
cult hit]

I put a spell on you
'cause you're mine

You better stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
No I ain't lyin'

You know I can't stand it
You're runnin' around
You know better daddy
I can't stand it cause you put me
down

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You're mine

I love ya
I love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
And I don't care
If you don't want me
I'm yours right now

You hear me
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine

(Al Green)

[Cover of 1972 Al Green song]

If I gave you my love,
I tell you what I'd do
I'd expect a whole lotta love outta
you

You gotta be good to me
I'm gonna be good to you
There's a whole lotta things you and I
Could do
Hey hey

Hey hey hey

Simply beautiful simply beautiful simply
Beautiful
Simply beautiful simply beautiful simply
Beauti..
Simply beautiful
Simply beautiful
Simply beautiful
Simply beautiful

What about the way you love me
And the way you squeeze me
Hey
Hey simply beautiful hey

And you get right down it
And the love is getting you through it

Simply beautiful

[Bill Withers' hit from 1974]

Your love is like a a chunk of gold
Hard to gain, and hard to hold

Like a rose that's soft to touch
Love has gone, and it hurts so much

Well and why...
Must the same love that made me
laugh
Make me cry?

Well now you think of love as sitting
on a mountain
Think of it as being a great big rock
Won't you think before you started to
roll it down
Because once you start it, you can't
make it stop

I've given all I have to give
And if you don't want me
I don't want to live

Well and why...
Must the same love that made me
laugh:
Why you wanna make me cry? [5x]

Why you wanna make me lay in my
pillow
Just cryin' like a weeping willow

Why you wanna make me cry? [4x]

Why you wanna make me mess in my
pillow
I'm just cryin' like a weeping willow

Why you wanna make me cry? [3x]

[King Pleasure's 1952 hit]

[He:] There I go, there I go, there I go
There I go..
Pretty baby, you are the soul who snaps my control
Such a funny thing but every time you're near me
I never can behave
You give me a smile and then I'm wrapped up in your magic
There's music all around me, crazy music
Music that keeps calling me so very close to you
Turns me your slave
Come and do with me any little thing you want to
Anything baby, just let me get next to you
Am I insane or do I really see heaven in your eyes?
Bright as stars that shine up above you in the clear blue skies
How I worry about you
Just can't live my life without you
Baby come here, don't have no fear
Oh, is there a wonder why
I'm really feeling in the mood for love?
So tell me why stop to think
About this weather, my dear?
This little dream might fade away
There I go talking out of my head again, oh baby
Won't you come and put our two hearts together?
That would make me strong and brave
Oh when we are one, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid
If there's a cloud up above us
Go on and let it rain
I'm sure our love together will endure a hurricane
Oh my baby
Won't you please let me love you
And give a relief from this awful misery?

[She:] What is all this talk about loving me, my sweet?
I am not afraid, not anymore, not like before
Can't you understand me?
Now baby, please pull yourself together, do it soon
My soul's on fire, come on and take me
I'll be what you make me, my darling, my sweet

[He:] Oh baby, you make me feel so good
Let me take you by the hand
Come let us visit out there
In that new promised land
Maybe there we can find
A good place to use a loving state of mind
I'm so tired of being without
And never knowing what love's about...
James Moody, you can come on in man
And you can blow now if you want to

[Both:] We're through

[1933 standard written by Bernice
Petkere. Arrangement baed on the
Peggy Lee's 1963 recording]

Music play
Something dreamy for dancing
While we're here romancing
It's love's holiday
And Love will be our guide

Close your eyes
When you open them dear
I'll be right hear by your side
So...

Close your eyes
Rest your head on my shoulder and
sleep
Close your eyes
And I will close mine

Close your eyes
Let's pretend that we're both counting
sheep
Close your eyes
This is divine

Music play
Something dreamy for dancing
While were here romancing
It's love's holiday
And Love will be our guide

Close your eyes
When you open them dear
I'll be near by your side
So won't you close your eyes...

[Inspired by Jose Feliciano's 1968
cover of The Mamas And The Papas
hit of 1966]

All the leaves are brown and the sky
is gray.
I've been for a walk on a winter's day.
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.;
California dreamin' on such a winter's
day.

Stopped in to a church I passed
along the way.
Well I got down on my knees and I
pretend to pray.
You know the preacher liked the
cold;
He knows I'm gonna stay.
California dreamin' on such a winter's
day.

All the leaves are brown and the sky
is gray.
I've been for a walk on a winter's day.
If I didn't tell her I could leave today;
California dreamin' on such a winter's
day.
California dreamin' on such a winter's
day.
California dreamin' on such a winter's
day.

Close your eyes
And rest your tired body next to mine
Nobody knows more than you
These hard times that we're living through

But baby, we'll go on and on
Hey, Lord knows we got each other
So kiss me, kiss me hard and long
Hard times, we can get over, yeah

Now the sun, yeah, it must rise
And she coming with a bag of tricks
And treats and dirty lies, nobody smiles, nobody cries
And no one seems to care if they live or die

But baby, we'll go on and on, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord knows
We have got each other, yeah
So come on and kiss me, kiss me hard and long
Ooh, hard times, we can get over

Those ballots and boxes, bullets and guns, yeah
And the outlaw, the outlaw always runs and runs, yeah he does
But baby, just you come, come to me
Come to me, come to me, come to me, baby
When, whenever you need me

So kiss me hard, lay some kisses on me, baby
'Cause I need you and you know that
These hard times, we can get over

[Inspired by Marlene Shaw's 1967
vocal version of Cannonball Adderly's
big 1966 soul jazz instrumental hit]

My baby, she may not look
Like one of those bunnies out of the
Playboy book
Well, I'm sorry bout that, Mr. Williams
But she's got something,
Johnny, much greater than gold
Well, now what's that?
I'm crazy 'bout that girl,
She's got so much soul

She's got the kind of loving, kissin'
and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow
And I know that she knocks me off
my feet
Have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet
Can you dig it?

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love me like you do - ow!
Tell 'em bout it, Watson

My baby now, when she walks by
All the fellows go '~~~', and I know
why
Have mercy, just look at her walk
It's simply because that girl, she walks
so fine
And if she ever leave me, I will lose
my mind

Because she's got the kind of lovin',
Kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow
And I know that she knocks me off
my feet
Have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet
I'd better tell 'em one more thing

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love me like you do
Ow, tell 'em bout it, Mr. Williams

Now everybody in my neighborhood
An' that's what's grooving me
Will testify that my girl, she looks so
good
Well, let me tell you something else
right here
She looks so fine, she give eyesight
to the blind
Help 'em to make 'em see
And if she ever leave me, I will lose
my mind

Because she's got the kind of lovin',
Kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow
And I know that she knocks me off
my feet
Have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet
Can you dig it?

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love me like you do
Mercy, mercy, mercy!

[Cover Of Barbara Lewis' hit from
1963]

(Shoo-bop, shoo-bop, my baby)
(Shoo-bop, shoo-bop)

Hello, stranger
(ooh) It seems so good to see you
back again
How long has it been?
(ooh, seems like a mighty long time)
(shoo-bop, shoo-bop, my baby, ooh)
It seems like a mighty long time

Oh-uh-oh, I my, my, my, m
I'm so glad
You stopped by to say "hello" to me
Remember that's the way it used to
be
Ooh, it seems like a mighty long time
(shoo-bop, shoo-bop, my baby, ooh)
It seems like a mighty long time

[Inspired by Dinah Washington's
1955 recording of a song introduced
by Rudy Vallee in 1928]

I could show the world how to smile
I could be glad all of the while
I could change the gray skies to blue
If I had you

I could leave the old days behind
Leave all my pals, I'd never mind
I could start my life anew
If I had you

I could climb a snow-capped
mountain
Sail the mighty ocean wide
I could cross the burning desert
If I had you by my side

I could be a king, dear, uncrowned
Humble or poor, rich or renowned
There is nothin' I couldn't do
If I had you

[Instrumental - first two verses]

I could climb a snow-capped
mountain
Sail the mighty ocean wide
I could cross the burnin' desert
If I had you by my side

I could be a king uncrowned
Humble or poor, rich or renowned
There is nothin' I couldn't do
If I had you

Baby, if I had you

[Written in 1949 by Billy Strayhorn,
the noted Duke Ellington collaborator]

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 distant gay 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..