252.This Year’s Kisses (1937)

lyrics and music by Irving Berlin

This year’s crop of kisses
Don’t seem as sweet to me
This year’s crop just misses
What kisses used to be
This year’s new romance
Doesn’t seem to have a chance
Even helped by Mr. Moon above

This year’s crop of kisses is not for me
For I’m still wearin’ last year’s love

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(This Is) My Last Affair

Haven Johnson

Can’t you see
What love and romance have done to me
I’m not the same as I used to be
This is my last affair

Tragedy
Just seems to be the end of me
My happiness is misery
This is my last affair

Right from the start
You took my love
Tore my heart apart
Now there’s nothing new to look forward to
My dreams won’t come true

So I’ll make a vow, make a vow
No more to love’s shrine will I bow
I cross my heart and seal it now
This is my last affair

250. Things Are Looking Up (1937)

lyrics by Ira Gershwin

music by George Gershwin

Things are looking up
I’ve been looking the landscape over
And it’s covered with four leaf clover
Oh things are looking up
Since love looked up at me

Bitter was my cup
But no more will I be the mourner
For I’ve certainly turned the corner
Oh things are looking up
Since love looked up at me

See the sunbeams
Every one beams
Just because of you
Love’s in session
And my depression
Is unmistakably through

Things are looking up
It’s a great little world we live in
Oh, I’m happy as a pup
Since love looked up at me

 

From the film A Damsel in Distress with Fred Astaire and Joan Fontaine

249. They Say

Edward Heyman & Paul Mann & Stephan Weiss

They say you have no lips
For a fool such as I
They say you just believe
In hello and goodbye
And they say that the one I admire
Isn’t even remotely concerned
And that I’ll go on playing with fire
Until I have learned
My heart has been burned

They say I shouldn’t dream
Of your face in the moon
They say all of my dreams will be
Nightmares too soon
Let them talk
Let them think what they want to
If it makes them feel happy that way
I know I’ll always love you
No matter what they say

 

2nd version

They say you have no lips
For a fool such as I
They say you just believe
In hello and goodbye
And they say that the one I admire
Isn’t even remotely concerned
And that I’ll go on playing with fire
Until I have learned
My heart has been burned

They say I shouldn’t dream
Of your face in the moon
They say all of my dreams will be
Nightmares too soon
Let them talk
Let them think what they want to
If it makes them feel happy that way
I know I’ll always love you
No matter what they say

248. They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1936)

lyrics by Ira Gershwin

music by George Gershwin

follows 4 versions of this song

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off-key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

2nd version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

3rd version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

4th version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

From the film Shall We Dance? with fred Astaire

247. These ‘n’ That ‘n’ Those

Milton Pascal & Edgar Fairchild

These are nights below
And that’s the moon above
And those are eyes that say you’re mine
Why can’t we combine these ‘n’ that ‘n’ those
These are moments rare
And that’s the comfy chair
And those are lips that should be kissed
How can we resist these ‘n’ that ‘n’ those
Holding conversation is no recreation
And we have so much more to do
I’d be disrespectful
If I were neglectful
Of all that nature gave to you
These two hearts are bold
And that’s a hand to hold
And those two arms have room to spare
Where we both can share these ‘n’ that ‘n’ those

246. These Foolish Things (1936)

lyrics by  Eric Maschwitz

music by Jack Strachey & Harry Link & Holt Marvell

A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
Still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumbling words
That told you what my heart meant
A fairground’s painted swings
These foolish things remind me of you.

You came you saw
You conquered me
When you did that to me
I knew somehow this had to be

The winds of March
That make my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings
But who’s to answer
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things remind me of you

2nd version

A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumbling words
That told you what my heart meant
A fairground’s painted swings
These foolish things remind me of you.

You came you saw
You conquered me
When you did that to me
I knew somehow this had to be

The winds of March
That make my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings
But who’s to answer
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things remind me of you

How strange, how sweet
To find you still
These things are dear to me
They seem to bring you near to me
The scent of smoldering leaves
The wail of steamers
Two lovers on the street
Who walk like dreamers
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

From the show Spread It Around

245. There’ll Be Some Changes Made (1921)

lyrics by Billy Higgins 

music by W. Benton Overstreet 

[stereo recording]

For there’s a change in the weather
There’s a change in the sea
From now on there’ll be in change in me
My walk will be different my talk and my name
Nothing about me is going to be the same

I’m going to change my way of living
If that ain’t enough
Then I’ll change the way that I strut my stuff
Nobody wants you when you’re old and gray
There’ll be some changes made – today
There’ll be some changes made

(bridge)

For there’s a change in the fashions
Ask just feminine folks
Even Sinatra has been changing his jokes
I must make some changes from the old to the new
I must do things just the same as others do

I’m going to change my long tall daddy for a little short fat
Going to change the number where I’m living at
I must have some loving or I’ll fade away
There’ll be some changes made – right away
There’ll be some changes made

 

244. There Is No Greater Love

Isham Jones & Marty Symes

There is no greater love
Than what I feel for you
No greater love no heart so true

There is no greater thrill
Than what you bring to me
No sweeter song
Than what you sing to me

You’re the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world it’s true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

You’re the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world it’s true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

 

2nd version

There is no greater love
Than what I feel for you
No greater love no heart so true

There is no greater thrill
Than what you bring to me
No sweeter song
Than what you sing to me

You’re the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world it’s true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

You’re the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world it’s true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

 

3rd version

There is no greater love
Than what I feel for you
No greater love no heart so true

There is no sweeter song
Than what you sing to me
No greater love
Than what you bring to me

You’re the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world it’s true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

(long audience applauses)