At last,
Is it an earthquake or simply a shock?
What did you think I would do at this moment,
I found my love in Avalon...
Some men climb a mountain,
Baby, won't you please come home?
I see the bad moon a-rising,
Most people live on a lonely island,
Dance, Ballerina, dance,
I've never wanted wealth untold.
Basin Street....is the street.....
Be my love,
Because of you,
Because you're mine,
When they begin the beguine,
Out of the tree of life,
Every night, I'm lyin' in bed,
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My love has come along.
My lonely days are over,
And life is like a song.
At last,
The skies above are blue.
My heart was wrapped in clover
The night I looked at you.
I found a dream that I can speak to,
A dream that I can call my own.
I found a thrill to press my cheek to,
A thrill I've never known.
You smiled,
And then the spell was cast,
And here we are in heaven,
For you are mine at last.
At last,
My love has come along.
My lonely days are over,
And life is like a song.
Lyric by Mack Gordon
Music by Harry Warren
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy,
Or is what I feel the real McCoy?
Is it for all time, or simply a lark?
Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?
Is it a fancy not worth thinking of,
Or is it at long last love?
Is it an earthquake or simply a shock?
Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy,
Or is what I feel the real McCoy?
Words and Music by Cole Porter
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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When you're standin' before me with tears in your eyes,
Tryin' to tell me that you have found you another,
And you just don't love me no more?
What did you think I would say at this moment,
When I'm faced with the knowledge that you just don't love me?
Did you think I would curse you or say things to hurt you
'Cause you just don't love me no more?
Did you think I could hate you or raise my hands to you?
Now come on, you know me too well.
How could I hurt you when, Darlin', I love you?
And you know I'd never hurt you.
Oh...., what do you think I would give at this moment?
If you stay, I'd subtract 20 years from my life.
I'd fall on my knees, kiss the ground that you walk on,
If I could just hold you again.
Did you think I could hate you or raise my hands to you?
Now come on, you know me too well.
How could I hurt you when, Darlin', I love you?
And you know I'd never hurt you.
Oh...., what do you think I would give at this moment?
If you stay, I'd subtract 20 years from my life.
I'd fall on my knees, kiss the ground that you walk on,
If I could just hold you again.
If I could just hold you.....,
If I could just hold you.....,
If I could just hold you again.
Words and Music by Billy Vera
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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Beside.....the Bay,
I left my love in Avalon...
And sailed.....away.
I dream of her and Avalon...
From dusk.....'til dawn,
And so I think I'll travel on...
To Avalon.
I found my love in Avalon...
Beside.....the Bay,
I left my love in Avalon...
And sailed.....away.
Words by Al Jolson and B.G. De Sylva
Music by Vincent Rose
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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some men swim the sea.
some men fly above the sky,
They are what they must be.
Baby, the rain must fall.
Baby, the wind must blow.
Where ever my heart leads me,
Baby, I must go.
Baby, I must go.
I do not love for silver,
Do not love for gold.
My heart is mine to give away,
It never will be sold.
Baby, the rain must fall.
Bay, the wind must blow.
Where ever my heart leads me,
Baby, I must go.
Baby, I must go.
I am not rich or famous,
But who can ever tell?
I do not know what waits for me
Maybe heaven,
Maybe hell.
Baby, the rain must fall.
Bay, the wind must blow.
Where ever my heart leads me,
Baby, I must go.
Baby, I must go.
From the Columbia Motion Picture
'Baby, the Rain Must Fall'
Words and Music by
Elmer Bernstein and Ernie Sheldon
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
'Cause your daddy's all alone.
I have tried in vain,
Never no more to call your name.
When you left, you broke my heart,
Because I never thought we'd part.
Ev'ry hour in the day, you can hear me say,
Baby, won't you please come home?
Baby, won't you please come home?
'Cause your daddy's all alone.
I have tried in vain,
Never no more to call your name.
Words and Music by
Charles Wakefield
and Clarence Williams
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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I see trouble on the way.
I see the earthquakes and lightnin',
I see bad time today.
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life.
There's a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes a-blowing,
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers overflowing,
I hear the voice of rage and rain.
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life.
There's a bad moon on the rise.
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather,
One eye is taken for an eye.
By John C. Fogerty
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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Lost in the middle of a foggy sea.
Most people long for another island,
One where they know they would like to be.
Bali Ha'i may call you,
Any night, any day.
In your heart you'll hear it call you,
'Come away, come away!'
Bali Ha'i will whisper
On the wind of the sea.
'Here am I, your special island!
Come to me, come to me!'
Your own special hopes,
Your own special dreams,
Bloom on the hillside
And shine in the streams.
If you try, you'll find me,
Where the sky meets the sea.
'Here am I, your special island!
Come to me, come to me!'
Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i.......
Someday you'll see me, floating in the sunshine,
My head sticking out from a low flying cloud,
You'll hear me call you, singing through the sunshine,
Sweet and clear as can be,
'Come to me, here am I, come to me!'
Bali Ha'i may call you,
Any night, any day.
In your heart you'll hear it call you,
'Come away, come away!'
Bali Ha'i will whisper
On the wind of the sea.
'Here am I, your special island!
Come to me, come to me!'
Your own special hopes,
Your own special dreams,
Bloom on the hillside
And shine in the streams.
If you try, you'll find me,
Where the sky meets the sea.
'Here am I, your special island!
Come to me, come to me!'
Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i, Bali Ha'i.......
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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And do your pirouette
In rhythm with your aching 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!!!!!!
Once you said,
His love must wait its turn.
You wanted fame instead,
I guess that's your concern.
We live and learn.
Music and Lyrics by
Carl Sigman and Bob Russell
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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My life has one design,
A simple little band of gold...
To prove that you are mine.
Don't want the world to have and hold,
For fame is not my line.
Just want a little band of gold...
To prove that you are mine.
Some sail aaway to Araby,
And other lands of mystery,
But all the wonders that they see...
Will never tempt me.
Their memories may soon grow cold,
But till the end of time
I'll have a little band of gold...
To prove that you are mine.
I've never wanted wealth untold.
My life has one design,
A simple little band of gold...
To prove that you are mine.
Words and Music by
Bob Musel and Jack Taylor
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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Where the elite....always meet,
In New Orleans, land of dreams,
You'll never know how nice it seems,
Or just how much it really means.
Won't you come....along with me,
To the....Mississippi?
We'll take a boat to the land of dreams,
Straight down the river down to New Orleans.
The band's there to meet us,
Friends there to greet us.
Where all the proud and elite folks meet,
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street.
Basin Street, is a street,
Where the best folks always meet,
In New Orleans, land of dreams.
You'll never know how nice it seems,
Or what it really means.
Glad to be, Oh yesiree,
Where welcomes me and dear to me
Where I can lose
My Basin Street Blues.
Words and Music by
Spencer Williams
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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For no one else can end this yearning,
This need that you
And you alone create.
Just fill my arms
The way you've filled my dreams,
The dreams that you inspire,
With ev'ry sweet desire.
Be my love,
And with your kisses set me burning.
One kiss is all I need
To seal my fate.
And hand in hand,
We'll find love's promised land.
There'll be no one but you for me, eternally,
If you will be my love.
Be my love,
For no one else can end this yearning,
This need that you
And you alone create.
From the Motion Picture
'The Toast of New Orleans'
Words and Music by
Sammy Cahn and Nicholas Brodszky
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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There's a song in my heart.
Because of you,
My romance had its start.
Because of you,
The sun will shine.
The moon and stars will say you're mine,
Forever and never to part.
I only live for your love and your kiss.
It's paradise to be near you like this.
Because of you,
My life is now worthwhile,
And I can smile,
Because of you.
Because of you,
There's a song in my heart.
Because of you,
My romance had its start.
Because of you,
The sun will shine.
The moon and stars will say you're mine,
Forever and never to part.
Words and Music by
Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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The brightest star I see...
Looks down, my Love, and envies me,
Because you're mine, because you're mine.
Because you're mine,
The breeze that hurries by...
Becomes a melody, and why,
Because you're mine, because you're mine.
I only know...
For as long as I may live,
I'll only live...
For the kiss that you alone may give me.
And when we kiss,
That isn't thunder, Dear.
It's only my poor heart you hear,
And it's applause, because you're mine.
Because you're mine,
The brightest star I see...
Looks down, my Love, and envies me,
Because you're mine, because you're mine.
From the Motion Picture
'Because You're Mine'
Words and Music by
Sammy Cahn and Nicholas Brodszky
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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It brings back the sound of music so tender.
It brings back a night of tropical splendor.
It brings back a memory ever green.
I'm with you once more, under the stars,
And down by the shore, an orchestra's playing,
And even the palms seem to be swaying,
When they begin the beguine.
To live it again is past all endeavor,
Except when that tune clutches my heart,
And there we are, swearing to love forever,
And promising never, never to part.
What moments divine, what rapture serene.
The clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted,
And now, when I hear people curse the chance that we wasted,
I know but too well what they mean.
So, don't let them begin the beguine,
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember.
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember,
When they begin the beguine.
Oh, yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play,
Till the stars that were there before return above you,
Till you whisper to me once more: Darling, I love you!
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in,
When they begin the beguine.
Words and Music by Cole Porter
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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I just picked me a plum.
You came along and
Ev'rything started to hum.
Still it's a real good bet,
The best is yet to come.
The best is yet to come,
And Babe, won't that be fine?
You think you've seen the sun,
But you ain't seen it shine.
Wait till the warm-up is underway,
Wait till our lips have met.
Wait till you see that sunshine day,
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
The best is yet to come,
And Babe, won't that be fine?
The best is yet to come,
Come the day that you're mine.
Come the day that you're mine,
I'm gonna teach you to fly.
We've only tasted the wine,
We're gonna drain that cup dry.
Wait till the charms are right
For your arms to surround.
You think you've flown before,
But you ain't left the ground.
Wait till you're locked in my embrace,
Wait till I hold you near.
Wait till you see that sunshine place,
There ain't nothin' like it here.
The best is yet to come,
And Babe, won't that be fine?
The best is yet to come,
Come the day that you're mine.
Words by Carolyn Leigh
Music by Cy Coleman
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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The Best of My Love
Holdin' you close in my dreams.
Thinkin' about all the things that we said,
And comin' apart at the seams.
We try to talk it over,
But the words come out too rough.
I know you were tryin'
To give me the best of your love.
Beautiful faces and loud empty places,
Look at the way that we live.
Wastin' our time on cheap talk and wine...
Left us so little to give.
That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud...
That we could never rise above,
But here in my heart...
I give you the best of my love.
Oh..............., sweet Darlin',
You get the best of my love.....,
Oh..............., sweet Darlin',
You get the best of my love......
I'm goin' back in time, and it's a sweet dream.
It was a quiet night,
And I would be all right
If I could go on sleeping.
But every mornin' I wake up and worry.
What's gonna happen today?
You see it your way, and I see it mine,
But we both see it slippin' away.
You know we always had each other, Baby,
I guess that wasn't enough.
Oh................, but here in my heart,
I give you the best of my love.
Oh..............., sweet Darlin',
You get the best of my love.....,
Oh..............., sweet Darlin',
You get the best of my love.....,
Oh..............., sweet Darlin',
You get the best of my love.....,
Oh!
Words and Music by
Don Henley, Glenn Frey
and John David Souther
A Mickey McBride Arrangement
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