American Standard

1. My Blue Heaven

   My Blue Heaven

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   (Walter Donaldson-George A. Whiting)

   Day is ending, songbirds are wending
   Back to the shelter of each little nest they love

   Nightshades falling, lovebirds are calling
   What makes this world go ‘round?
   Nothing but love

   When whippoorwills cry and evening is nigh
   I hurry to my blue heaven

   I turn to the right a little white light
   That leads me to my blue heaven

   You’ll see a smiling face a fireplace, a cozy room
   A little love nest nestled where the roses bloom

   Just Molly and me and baby makes three
   We’re happy in my blue heaven

   You’ll see a smiling face a fireplace, a cozy room
   Just a little love nest nestled where the roses bloom

   Just Molly and me and baby makes three
   We’re happy in my blue heaven

   My blue heaven

2. Moon River

   Moon River

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   (Henry Mancini-Johnny Mercer)

   Moon River, wider than a mile
   I’m crossing you in style some day
   You dream maker, you heart breaker
   wherever you’re going I’m going your way

   Two drifters off to see the world
   There’s such a lot of world to see
   We’re after the same rainbow’s end
   waiting ’round the bend
   My huckleberry friend
   Moon River and me

   Two drifters off to see the world
   There’s such a lot of world to see
   We’re after the same rainbow’s end
   It’s waiting ’round the bend
   My huckleberry friend
   Moon River and me

   You and me

3. Teach Me Tonight

   Teach Me Tonight

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   (Gene De Paul-Sammy Cahn)

   Did you say I’ve got a lot to learn?

   Well don’t think I’m trying not to learn
   Since this is the perfect spot to learn
   Teach me tonight

   Starting with the a-b-c of it
   Right down to the x-y-z of it
   Help me solve the mystery of it
   Teach me tonight

   Oh, the sky’s a blackboard high above you
   And if a shooting star goes by
   I’ll use that star to write I love you
   A thousand times across the sky

   One thing isn’t very clear my love
   Should the teacher stand so near, my love
   Graduation’s almost here my love
   Teach me tonight

   The sky’s a blackboard high above you
   And if a shooting star goes by
   I’ll use that star to write I love you
   A thousand times across the sky

   One thing isn’t very clear my love
   Should the teacher stand so near, my love
   Graduation’s almost here my love
   Teach me tonight

4. As Easy As Rolling Off A Log

   As Easy As Rolling Off A Log

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   (M.K. Jerome-Jack Scholl)

   As easy as rolling off a log
   I found it easy, baby
   To fall in love with you
   It was as easy as rolling cigarettes
   If that ain’t easy
   Maybe there’s simpler things to do

   For instance, let’s cuddle
   I love to cuddle
   Get in a huddle
   It’s easy with you

   As easy as rolling off a log
   I really tumbled, baby
   But what else could I do?
   It’s so easy to fall in love with you

   I know that it’s as easy as rolling off a log
   It must be easy baby
   to say the sweet things you do
   As easy as rolling off a log
   I must be crazy baby
   But you make me think it’s true

   Cause if I do say
   I’ve heard a few say
   The things that you say
   So help me it’s true

   This love stuff has got me in a fog
   The guys all say they love you
   No wonder that they do
   It’s so easy to fall in love with you

5. Almost Lke Being In Love

   Almost Lke Being In Love

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   (Frederick Loewe-Alan Jay Lerner)

   What a day this has been
   What a rare mood I’m in
   Why it’s almost like being in love
   And there’s a smile on my face
   for the whole human race
   Well it’s almost like being in love

   All the music of life seems to be
   like a bell that is ringing for me

   From the way that I feel
   when that bell starts to peal
   I could swear I was falling
   It feels like I’m falling
   It’s almost like being in love

   Like being in love

   When we walked out that day
   Not a word did we say
   It was almost like being in love
   But your hand there in mine
   made this world kind o’ fine
   I could swear I was falling in love

   All 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 peal
   I could swear I was falling
   It feels just like falling
   It’s almost like being in love

6. Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat

   Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat

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   (Frank Loesser)
   I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven
   And by some chance I had brought my dice along
   And there I stood, and I hollered “Somebody fade me”
   But the passengers all knew right from wrong

   For the people all said sit down,
   Sit down, you’re rockin’ the boat
   The people all said sit down,
   Sit down you’re rockin’ the boat

   And the devil will drag you under
   By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat,
   Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down,
   Sit down you’re rockin’ the boat

   I sailed away on that little boat to heaven
   And by some chance found a bottle in my fist
   And there I stood, nicely passin’ out the whisky
   But the passengers were bound to resist

   For the people all said beware,
   You’re on a heavenly trip
   The people all said beware
   Beware, you’ll scuttle the ship

   And the devil will drag you under
   By the fancy tie ’round your wicked throat
   Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down
   Sit down, you’re rockin’ the boat

   And as I laughed at those passengers to heaven
   A great big wave came and knocked me over board!
   And as I sank, and I hollered “Someone save me!”
   That’s the moment I woke up
   Thank the Lord

   And I said to myself, sit down,
   Sit down, you’re rockin’ the boat
   I said to myself sit down,
   Sit down, sit down you’re rockin’ this boat

   And the devil will drag you under
   With a soul so heavy you’d never float,
   Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down
   Sit down, stop rockin’ the boat

7. The Nearness Of You

   The Nearness Of You

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   (Hoagy Carmichael-Ned Washington)

   It’s not the pale moon that excites me
   That thrills and delights me, oh no
   It’s just the nearness of you

   It isn’t your sweet conversation
   That brings this sensation, no no
   It’s just the nearness of you

   When you’re in my arms
   and I feel you so close to me
   All my wildest dreams come true

   I need no soft lights to enchant me
   If you would only grant me the right
   To hold you ever so tight
   And to feel in the night the nearness of you

   When you’re in my arms
   and I feel you so close to me
   All my wildest dreams, I see them all come true

   I need no soft lights to enchant me
   If you would only grant me the right
   To hold you ever so tight
   And to feel in the night the nearness of you

8. You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught

   You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught
   

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   (Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II)

   You’ve got to be taught
   To hate and fear
   You’ve got to be taught
   From year to year
   It’s got to be drummed
   In your dear little ear
   You’ve got to be carefully taught

   You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
   Of people whose eyes are oddly made
   And people whose skin is a different shade
   You’ve got to be carefully taught

   You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late
   Before you are six or seven or eight
   To hate all the people your relatives hate
   You’ve got to be carefully taught
   You’ve got to be carefully taught

9. God Bless The Child

   God Bless The Chil
   

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   (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog Jr.)

   Them that’s got shall get
   Them that’s not shall lose
   So the Bible said and it still is news
   Mama may have, Papa may have
   God bless the child that’s got his own

   So the strong get more
   While the weak ones fade
   Empty pockets don’t seem to make the grade
   Mama may have, Papa may have
   God bless the child that’s got his own
   That’s got his own

   You’ve got money, you’ve got lots of friends
   Hangin’ all around your door
   When it’s all gone and the spending ends
   No they don’t come around no more

   Rich relations bring
   Crusts of bread and such
   You can help yourself
   Just don’t take too much

   Mama may have, Papa may have
   But God bless the child that’s got his own
   That’s got his own

   Rich relations bring
   Crusts of bread and such
   You can help yourself
   Just don’t take too much

   Mama may have, Papa may have
   But God bless the child

   that can stand up and say
   I’ve got my own

10. Pennies From Heaven

    Pennies From Heaven

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    (Arthur Johnston-Johnny Burke)
    Back a long, long time ago, a million years BC
    All the best things in this life were absolutely free
    But no one appreciated a sky that was always blue
    And no one anticipated a moon that was always new
    So it was planned and they would vanish now and then
    And we must pay before we get them back again
    That’s what storms were made for
    You shouldn’t be afraid for

    Every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven
    Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven
    You’ll find your fortune falling all over town
    Make sure that your umbrella is upside down, will ya

    Trade it for a package of sunshine and flowers
    If you want the things you love you must have showers
    So when you hear it thunder don’t run under a tree
    There’ll be pennies from heaven for you and for me

    You’ll find your fortune falling all over town
    Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
    Trade it for a package of sunshine and flowers
    If you want the things you love child you must have showers
    So when you hear it thunder don’t run under a tree
    There’ll be pennies from heaven for you and for me

11. My Heart Stood Still

    My Heart Stood Still

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    (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

    I laughed at sweethearts I met at schools
    All indiscreet hearts they seemed romantic fools
    A house in Iceland it was my heart’s domain
    I see your eyes now castles rise in Spain!

    I took one look at you that’s all I meant to do
    And then my heart stood still

    My feet could step and walk my lips could move and talk
    And yet my heart stood still

    Though not a single word was spoken I could tell you knew
    That secret touch of hands told me so well you knew

    I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment
    When my heart stood still

    Though not a single word was spoken I could tell you knew
    That secret touch of hands told me so well you knew

    I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment
    When my heart stood still
    Oh that moment when my heart stood still

12. Ol’ Man River

    Ol’ Man River

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    (Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II)

    There’s an old man called the Mississippi
    Now that’s the old man that I’d like to be
    Oh, what does he care if the world’s got troubles?
    What does he care if the land’s not free?

    Ol’ man river
    That ol’ man river
    Well he must know somethin’
    But he don’t say nothin’
    He keeps on rollin’
    He just keeps rollin’ along

    Man, don’t plant taters
    And he don’t plant cotton
    Yes and them that plants them is soon forgotten
    He keeps on rollin’
    He just keeps rollin’ along

    Oh, you and me we’re just the same
    Bodies all achin’ and wracked with pain
    Tote that barge, better lift that bale
    You get a little drunk and you land in jail

    I get weary
    And sick of tryin’
    Till I’m tired of livin’
    And I’m scared of dyin’

    But ol’ man river he keeps rollin’
    Ol’ man river he just keeps on rollin’
    I said that Ol’ man river
    He keeps on rollin’ along
    Ol’ Man River

13. It’s Only A Paper Moon

    It’s Only A Paper Moon

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    (Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg-Billy Rose)

    Well, it’s only a paper moon
    Sailing over a cardboard sea
    But it wouldn’t be make-believe
    If you believed in me

    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, baby

    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

    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

14. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

    The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

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    (Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II)

    When I take you out tonight with me
    Honey, here’s the way it’s gonna be
    You will sit behind a team of snow white horses
    In the slickest gig you’ll ever see

    Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
    When I take you out in the surrey
    When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top
    Watch that fringe and see how it flutters
    When I drive them high steppin’ strutters
    Nosy folks they’ll peek through the shutters

    and their eyes will pop!

    The wheels are yellow, the upholstery’s brown
    The dashboard’s genuine leather
    With Isinglass curtains you can roll right down
    In case there’s a change in the weather

    Two bright side lights winkin’ and blinkin’
    Ain’t no finer rig I’m a thinkin’
    You can keep your rig if you’re thinkin’

    that I’d keer to swap
    For that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top

    Now would you say the fringe was made of silk?
    I wouldn’t have no other kind but silk
    Has it really got a team of snow white horses?
    One’s like snow, the other’s more like milk

    I can see the stars gettin’ blurry
    When we ride back home in the surrey
    Ridin’ slowly home in the surrey
    With the fringe on top

    I can feel the day gettin’ older
    Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder
    Noddin’, droopin’, close to my shoulder
    Till it falls kerplop

    The sun is swimming on the rim of a hill
    The moon is taking a header
    And just when I’m thinking all the earth is still
    A lark wakes up in the meader

    Hush, you bird my baby’s a sleepin’
    Maybe got a dream worth a keepin’

    Whoa, you team just keep on a creepin’
    at a slow clip clop

    Don’t you hurry little surrey with the fringe on the top