Listen To My Song
Composer(s): Dick Miles
Performer(s): Del Reeves



Alright gang, I've wrote this smash hit
Ha, ha, ha, it's not so funny
Let's all sing together, it's got to be pretty, let's go

Listen to my song, well, listen to my song
(Tell me if you'd like it play, I'll change it if it's wrong
Listen to my music, George, see if it's alright
If it's not what you've had in mind, I'll write you one tonight)

Well, I wrote a little song a few months ago
My friends all said that thing oughta go
So I packed my bags and I hit for Nashville town
Well, I wanted to get me a big star to do it
So I made me a list with a few names through it
And I started out to see if Eddy Arnold was in town

Well, I come in a home way back in the den
I can tell he was glad when I walked in
'Cause he broken the singin', 'Make The World Go Away'
He finally listen the part of my song
And then with a drawl of two, two miles long
He said see Ernest Tubb, ha, ha, he lives just across the way

Listen to my song

Well, I'd see ol' Ern, he was walking the floor
'Cause just as records were sellin' lower
But he put me on a take and listened to every word
He said, I've been singin' since I was a kid
And nothin' sounds like that song did

Ah, throw him out Billy Byrd
Well, I quit myself, got back on my feet
I saw Johnny Cash up in down the street
And I asked him if he can use a hit or two
He said, I made mon' on a Ring Of Fire

Size Luther King, playin' on his guitar
So I don't care of the doo-di-dood-di
I called Bill Anderson and he was at home
But he said my mama sang a song
I'm sorry but I hope that you understand

I saw Ralph Emery and I talked to him
Along ol' Tex Ritter and WSM
But they was too busy shakin' one another's hands
Folly I decided that the only way
A stranger in Nashville can make a little hay
Is just to turn a record himself with that Nashville sound

So I borrowed me some money and that's what I did
Everybody tells me, I've got a hit
At least it's bubblin' under about one hundred, ha, ha
And follows Alabama at the bus station

Listen to my song

Listen To Me
Composer(s): Buddy Holly - Norman Petty
First release by: Buddy Holly - 1958
Covered by multiple other artists



Listen to me
Hear what I say
Our hearts can be
Nearer each day
Hold me, darling
Listen closely to me

Your eyes will see
What love can do
Reveal to me
Your love so true
Hold me, darling
Listen closely to me

I've told the stars 
You're my only love
I want to love you tenderly
Those same bright stars
In heaven above
Know now how sweet
Sweethearts can be 

Listen to me
Hear what I say
Our hearts can be
Nearer each day
Hold me, darling
Listen closely to me

Madge
Composer(s): Stephen Bishop
Performer(s): Stephen Bishop



It was 1927
Had the world at my feet
A pretty girl on each arm
My family was so proud of me

I built a lot of buildings
Tore half of 'em down
One by one
They all crumbled just like me

But like a storm in a teacup
Like a smile sent down from heaven
Madge, I loved you then
And I love you now

We ate in the finest restaurants
Had the wealthiest friends
Most of them are gone now
No one left to say, "I knew you when"

It seems so long since I've remembered
The girl I used to know
She never saw any of my money
But she watched it come and go

Like a storm in a teacup
Like a smile sent down from heaven
Madge I loved you then
And I love you now

They call this place "Sunnyside"
But I ain't seen the sun in a long, long time
And my hands don't seem too steady now
But they're still holding onto you

Madge, she's probably married now
In a nice white house
And me I just sit here in my room
Quiet as a mouse

But I got my TV turned up loud
I'm not going to hear myself retreat
If only I'd have kept her
I'd have stayed on my feet

Like a storm in a teacup
Like a smile sent down from heaven
Madge I loved you then 
And I love you now...

Listen People
Composer(s): Graham Gouldman
First release by: Herman's Hermits - 1966
Covered by multiple other artists



Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day

And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part

I once found love, found love just like you
But then he came, he might come to you

And don't you know that
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
But everybody can part
Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime
So take care that you don't lose your heart

Take my advice and you'll always find
You'll be happy all of the time
Take my advice and you will see
You'll be happy as you can be

Listen people to what I say
I say everybody's got to have their day

And don't you know that
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
Everybody's got to win a heart
Everybody's got to love somebody sometime
When you do, I hope you never part
You never part
Listen people
Listen people

Why Shouldn't I?
Composer(s): Cole Porter
First performance/First recording by: Margaret Adams - 1935/Johnny Green & His Orch. - 1935
Covered by multiple other artists



Why shouldn't I
Take a chance when romance passes by?
Why shouldn't I know of love?
Why wait around
When each age has a sage who has found
That upon this earth
Love is all that is really worth thinking of!

It must be fun
To be sure when day is done
That the hour is coming when
You'll be kissed, and then
You'll be kissed again!

All debutantes say it's good
And every star out in far Hollywood
Seems to give it a try
So why shouldn't I?

All debutantes say it's good
And every star out in far Hollywood
Seems to give it a try
So why shouldn't I?

Whose Honey Are You?
Composer(s): J. Fred Coots - Haven Gillespie 
Performer(s): Fats Waller
and multiple other artists



Whose honey are you?
Whose tea do you sweeten?
Who's sugar and spice
And everything nice
Depend on you?

Whose honey are you?
Whose dream are you completin'?
Who goes for those eyes
like sugar plum pies?
Whose honey are you?

You've got a tiny little bit of heaven
In your finger tips;
You've got all the rest of heaven
On your sugar coated lips!

Who's gonna get you
Some Sunday go meetin'?
Whose little heart leaps
And wants you for keeps?
Whose honey are you?

Whose honey are you?
Who gets your affection?
Who makes the dates
And kisses, and rates
The lovin' you do?

Whose honey are you?
Who makes the selection?
Whose beautiful schemes
And honeymoon dreams
Are gonna come true?

Please tell me
Have you really made your mind up
Who it's gonna be?
Don't you think, before we wind up
We're terrific, you and me!

Whose honey are you?
Whose dream of perfection?
Who's gonna raise fame
And let me explain?
Whose honey are you?

Lisbon Antigua
Composer(s): Amadeu do Vale - José Galhardo
Performer(s): Mitch Miller
and multiple other artists



I gave my heart to you in old Lisbon that night
Under the spell of your charms
I felt your arms hold me so tight
`Twas heaven to find such bliss in each kiss
I lost my heart but I found one so true
In old Lisbon with you

It happened one night in Portugal
Lisbon was gay in the moonlight
The stars were shining above 
When I found you, my love
What is this strangeness, this splendor
All this myst'ry that makes me surrender?

Mademoiselle De Paree 
French & German Title: Mademoiselle De Paris
Composer(s): Paul Durand; Henri Contet; Eric Maschwitz
Performer(s): Percy Faith
and various other artists



Oh la la, there's Mademoiselle de Paree
Light of heart, fancy free
She's the spirit of Spring in Paris

When you stroll down the Rue de la Paix
On a beautiful morning in May
It is heaven on earth, you'll agree
Just to meet Mademoiselle de Paree

She's got a style, famous in town
Even her smile goes with her gown
Bonjour Mademoiselle, bon appétit (*)
Comme tu es belle, that means you're sweet

She's so chic and adorable
No one think it deplorable
When men all turn around just to see
Mademoiselle de Paree

You bet girls get a kick from her
Learn each cute little trick from her
In their hearts they would all like to be
Mademoiselle de Paree

Light of heart, fancy free
She's the spirit of Spring in Paris

She has clothes with a zing to 'em
She's got curves and they cling to 'em
Sheer silk stockings and shoes number three
Mademoiselle de Paree

When she frowns there's disdain in it
But her smile has champagne in it
She breaks hearts and collects the débris
Mademoiselle de Paree

Oh, la la
Ah, oui oui
So you better look out in Paree

What a style and that smile
I walk a mile, just to see
Mademoiselle de Paree
She's the one girl for me
Mademoiselle de Paree

Lisa, Listen To Me
Composer(s): David Clayton-Thomas - Dick Halligan
Performer(s): Blood, Sweat & Tears



Once a girl I knew, all alone and unprepared
Everyone she knew, runnin' scared
Then she found him or maybe he found her
His were gentle words she had never heard before

He said, "Lisa, listen to me
Don't you know where you belong?
Darling, Lisa, you can tell me...
You've been silent for too long"

Once another man took her on a younger day
All a young girl can do is pray
Then she found him or maybe he found her
His were gentle words she had never heard before
She had never heard before

He said, "Lisa, listen to me
Don't you know where you belong?
Darling, Lisa, you can tell me...
You've been silent for too long"

He said, "Lisa, listen to me
Don't you know where you belong?
Darling, Lisa, you can tell me...
You've been silent for too long"

Then she found him or maybe he found her
His were gentle words she had never heard before
She had never heard before

Lisa Says
Composer(s): Lou Reed
Performer(s): The Velvet Underground



Lisa says that it's allright
When she meets me alone at night
Lisa says that she has a fun
And she'll do it with just about anyone

Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says
Lisa says that she's on the run
Looking for a special one
Lisa says that every time she makes his trip
She knows her heart will beat

Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says
Looking for a part and some action
Going to make it feel okay
But what do you find
When the time has come on, now
Look at it run

Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says
Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa says ...

Madeira, M'dear
Composer(s): Michael Flanders; Donald Swann
Performer(s): Flanders & Swann; The Limeliters



She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice
She was fair, she was sweet seventeen
He was old, he was vile and no stranger to vice
He was base, he was bad, he was mean
He had slyly enveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat
The wine, his cigar and the lamps
"Have some Madeira, m'Dear!
You really have nothing to fear
I'm not trying to tempt you, that wouldn't be right
You shouldn't drink spirits at this time of night
Have some Madeira, m'Dear!
It's so very much nicer than beer
I don't care for sherry and cannot drink stout
And port is a wine I can well do without
It's simply a case of "chacun a son gout"
Have some Madeira, m'Dear!"

Unaware of the wiles of the snake in the grass
And the fate of the maiden who topes
She lowered her standards by raising her glass
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes
She sipped it, she drank it, she drained it, she did
And quietly he filled it again
And he said as he secretly carved one more notch
On the butt of his gold-handled cane
"Have some Madeira, m'Dear!
I've got a small cask of it here
And once it's been opened, you know it won't keep
Do finish it up, it will help you to sleep
Have some Madeira, m'Dear!
It's really an excellent year
Now if it were gin, you'd be wrong to say yes
The evil gin does would be hard to assess
Besides it's inclined to affect my prowess
Have some Madeira, m'Dear!"

Then there flashed though her mind what her mother had said
With her antepenultimate breath
"Oh my child, should you look at the wine which is red
Be prepared for a fate worse than death!"
She let go her glass with a shrill little cry
Crash! Tinkle! It fell to the floor
When he asked "What in Heaven?", she made no reply
Up her mind, and a dash for the door
"Have some Madeira, m'Dear!"
Rang out down the hall, loud and clear
A tremulous cry that was filled with despair
As she paused to take breath in the full midnight air
"Have some Madeira, m'Dear!"
The words seemed to ring in her ear
Until the next morning, she woke up in bed
With a smile on her lips, an ache in her head
And a beard in her earhole that tickled and said
"Have some Madeira, m'Dear!"

Liquor To Like Her
Composer(s): Tom Hemby - Paul Overstreet
Performer(s): Hank Williams Jr.; Pete Schlegel



It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
Thats why I drink all the time
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

She wants to tell me where to go
Tell me what to do
Tell me what to eat
And how loud I can chew
She even wants to tell me
What thoughts I oughta think
It used to drive me crazy
Till it drove me to drink

It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
Thats why I drink all the time
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

Well shes such a pretty thing
You'd think shes heaven sent
She's the quarrelsome kind
Love's an argument
She could yell all day
She can scream all night
I just sit there smilin
As high as a kite

It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
Thats why I drinking all the time
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

This drinking buddy of mine
Said he met a girl
Said she was the meanest
Woman in the world
I saw her pretty picture
I said man your poking fun
Then the day I met her
I said pour me one

It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
That's why I drink all the time
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

You may look down your nose at me
Think I'm an old sorry
Son of a bean
The only way I'm giving up
My drinking glass is if I can
Find a way to get her off my back

Spoken: Your wife's on the phone.

Little brown jug upon my lips
Your saving our love
With every sip

It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
Thats why I drink all the time
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

Every time I get sober
She drives me out of my mind
It takes a whole lot of liquor
To like her
But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

But when I'm liquored up
I like her just fine

But when I'm liquored up
Hell I love her

Made You
Composer(s): John Barry; Trevor Peacock
Performer(s): Adam Faith



I saw you sitting there so cool
Like you just come home from school
Looking such a pretty sight
Like a stick of dynamite
Sitting on a coffee bar stool

You're a gasser that's a fact and I never can relax until I've made you

I feel such a crazy clown
You're the biggest thing in town
Come on honey isn't fair
Never getting anywhere
How do I melt you down

You're a gasser that's a fact and I never can relax until I've made you

I'm not giving up the chase
I don't want to lose this case
Every time I make a play
Baby you just run away
I never make first basev

You're a gasser that's a fact and I never can relax until I've made you

Lipstick, Powder And Paint
Composer(s): Jesse Stone
First release by: Joe Turner - 1956
Covered by multiple other artists



Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

There goes my baby up a tree
a-giggling and a wiggling her toes at me
Let me put my glasses on
Haven't had such fun since she's been gone

Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

Hound dog scratching fleas
looking like she's in love with me
Licks my hand everywhere I go
I wish my baby loved me so

Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

Taller than the barnyard, ten feet high
hide me till your man pass by
Don't you sneeze and don't you cough
If you get dusty, I'll brush you off

Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

What kind of love is that you make
the world starts a-trembling and the building shakes
so love me, hug me once again
let the roof and the walls come tumbling in

Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

Lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
lipstick powder and paint
is you is, or is you ain't

Lipstick, powder and paint

Lipstick On Your Collar
Composer(s): George Goehring - Edna Lewis
First release by: Connie Francis - 1959
Covered by multiple other artists

Versions In Other Languages:
1959 - Tusind Skøre Tanker (by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann)
1960 - Rossetto Sul Colletto (by Mina)



(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

When you left me all alone at the record hop
Told me you were goin' out for a soda pop
You were gone for quite a while, half an hour or more
You came back and man oh man this is what I saw

Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you
Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue
Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through
Cuz lipstick on you collar told a tale on you, yeah

You said it belonged to me, made me stop and think
Then I noticed yours was red, mine was baby pink
Who walked in but Mary Jane, lipstick all a mess
Were you smoochin' my best friend, if the answer's yes

Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you
Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue
Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through
Cuz lipstick on you collar told a tale on you, boy 

Told a tale on you, man

Told a tale on you, yeah

Made In Paris
Composer(s): Burt Bacharach; Hal David
Performer(s): Trini Lopez



When there's a moon above
It is something to see how the fellas follow the girls
They're all in search of love
There isn't a lover, who doesn't discover
That if it's made in Paris
You can bet that there is a girl for every boy
Dreams are made in Paris every night
They come true, can't you hear, Paris calling you

The girls are everywhere
The scent of their perfume is meant to go right to your head
So don't just sit and stir
If the fun and the laughter, the good times you're after
Can just be made in Paris
If you don't know how to speak French, she'll understand
Love is made in Paris every night
Rain or shine, go get yours, I've got mine
Find your dream! Find your love!
I've got mine! Go get yours!

If it's made in Paris
If you don't know how to speak French, she'll understand
Love is made in Paris every night
Rain or shine, go get yours, I've got mine
Find your dream! Find your love! I've got mine!
Go get yours!

Lips Of Wine
Composer(s): Shirley Wolfe - Sy Soloway
Performer(s): Andy Williams



I tasted your sweet lips, thrilled to my fingertips
Lips of wine, warm with fire, you are my one desire
Lips of wine, and they are mine

While tropic breezes play, while palm trees gently sway
Lips of wine, come to me, whisper low so tenderly
Lips of wine, and they are mine

Sweet Hawaiian miss, no more will I roam
I must have your kiss and I can't go home

You stole my heart from me, pretty rose of Waikiki
Lips of wine, sweet and rare, tell me you will always care
Lips of wine, and they are mine

(Sweet lips, sweet and tasty lips)

Sweet Hawaiian miss, no more will I roam
I must have your kiss and I can't go home

I tasted you sweet lips (sweet lips, your sweet and tasty lips)
Thrilled to my fingertips (sweet lips, your sweet and tasty lips)
Lips of wine, warm with fire, you are my one desire
Lips of wine (sweet lips) and they are mine (sweet lips of wine)
And they are mine (sweet lips of wine)

Ooh, they are mine (sweet lips of wine) 

Madame Butterfly
Composer(s): Puccini; Malcolm McLaren; Robby Kilgore
Performer(s): Malcolm McLaren



Pinkerton:
Back in Nagasaki I got married to Cho Cho San
That was her name in those days
And I was her man
I'm going back to visit her
She got a problem
She got a little Cho Cho
Cho Cho San was her name
And this is her tale of woe
Take it away Cho Cho

Cho Cho San:
Today's the day when I see clear
A tiny thread of smoke appears
Where blue skies fall upon the ocean
And shake this staid emotion

All the while I sing this song
I see a dot on the horizon
Growing bigger every second
Gleaming white in my direction

Who on earth can it be
Coming up the path for me?
What on earth will he say?
Shall I run to him or run away?

Freaking out he's come to get me
My feet are stuck but just won't let me
Run to him do I dare?
Madame Butterfly don't blow it

Chorus

Calling Butterfly, Madame Butterfly
That's the name he used to give me
He's my man till the day I die
Oh sweet Butterfly, so sweet Butterfly
She's waiting
He'll be back, I have faith in this love track

Pinkerton:
Pinkerton's the name
Lieutenant Colonel Pinkerton! sir
U.S. Navy
I'm a bounder
I married a Yankee girl
But I went back to visit old Japan
Where there she was, Cho Cho San

Cho Cho San:
Gotta have something to believe in
My white honkey, I do miss him
Someday soon he'll come around
Just to stop my nervous breakdown

Call me fool! Call me stupid!
Bend my arrow kill this cupid
Say it with me
He'll be back
I have faith in this love track

Pinkerton:
Cho Cho San
My little wife
My sweet butterfly
That's the name I'll give her
When I return

Chorus

Little sweet sweet Butterfly
I hear him crowing faintly
He thinks I'm just still sweet sixteen
I guess I'll tease him gently

Cho Cho San:
Calling Madame Butterfly
His angel plucked right from the sky
Hide my baby in mystic places
I feel the fear that I might die

Right in his arms and embraces
Softly kissing my eyelashes
Got no right no right to doubt it
Ain't no doubt no doubt about it

Call me fool! Call me stupid!
Bend this arrow kil this cupid
I have faith I'll always pray
My white honkey's here to stay

Chorus

Calling Butterfly, Madame Butterfly
Butterfly, Butterfly have no fear
I'll be back to wipe your tears
Oh sweet Butterfly, so sweet Butterfly
She's waiting
I'll wait for him with unshakable faith
He'll be back

Ling Ting Tong
Composer(s): Mabel Godwin
Performer(s): The Five Keys
and multiple other artists



I went to Chinatown
'way back in old Hong Kong
To get some Egg Foo Yung
And then I heard a gong

Ling ting tong tried to sing that song
Called Tie-ess-a mo-cum boo-die-ay
Tie-ess-a mo-cum boo
Ling ting tong, he would never be wrong
Go on and sing your song, a-ling ting tong

And I looked around
The lights were going down
And this is what I found
A back in Chinatown 

Linger In My Arms A Little Longer, Baby 
Composer(s): Herbert Magidson
Performer(s): Peggy Lee
and multiple other artists



Linger in my arms a little longer, baby
Hold me tight
While my love for you is growing stronger, baby
‘Tain’t right to say goodnight
Though it may be getting past your dream-time, baby
Don’t think twice
Just linger in my arms a little longer, baby
‘Cause it’s so nice
It’s oh so nice

Linger in my arms a little longer, baby
Hold me tight
While my love for you is growing stronger, baby
‘Tain’t right to say goodnight
Though it may be getting past your dream-time, baby
Don’t think twice
Linger, linger, baby
‘Cause it’s so nice
‘Cause it’s oh so nice