The Sweetest Melody Of All
Composer(s): Grant Clarke - Jimmie V. Monaco



When I was born I had an ear for music, I loved sweet lullabies
And every morn' when I would hear sweet music, I'd open up my eyes
Father bought a baby grand, I learned to play it with one hand
Music always made me gay 
And I'm the same today

Down in the hall we've got a pianola 
It's going night and day
And that's not all 
We bought a new victrola 
To make the servants stay 
All the kids have tuneful toys 
Or anything for nifty noise
Tho' grandmother's eighty three 
She sings close harmony

I love to hear sweet melodies, I love the song birds in the trees
I love an opera grand 
A big brass band 
Or any little tune from Dixie land
I love to hear the bugle call 
For any tune I'm bound to fall
But to hear a little baby calling you papa 
That's the sweetest melody of all

I love to hear sweet melodies, I love the song birds in the trees
I love an opera grand 
A big brass band 
Or any little tune from Dixie land
I love to hear the bugle call 
For any tune I'm bound to fall
But to hear a little baby calling you mama 
That's the sweetest melody of all

Nescio
Composer(s): Henk Hofstede; Kloet; Robert Jan Stips
Performer(s): Nits



Nescio
Questo paradiso
Nescio
Nella bocca del luppo
Nescio
Lo straniero ` morto
Nescio
Questo paradiso
I jumped off a bridge
And went swimming for hours
And nobody nobody's looking
I came to a hotel with
Double rooms and showers
And nobody nobody's knocking
The phone rings on a nightstand
Somebody whispers 'hello' I don't know
Too many words after so many miles
Somebody whispers 'hello' I don't know
I don't know
Nescio
Questo paradiso
Nescio
Questo quadro ` bello 

Rio Esperanza
Composer(s): Bill Payne; Shaun Murphy
Performer(s): Little Feat



Texas to Tennessee Blue
Highway to Highway
Just to Get Back to You
With the Barren Winds Blowin’
A Jealous Moon ‘cross the Plains
I’ll Only Be Runnin’ and Callin’ Your Name

I Should Have Never Left You
After What I Held Close
With the Hours Slippin’ By
From the One I Love Most
Chasing Days That Take Flight
And the Mist From My Eyes
I Die a Little Each Day With You So Far Away

Oh My Darlin’ I’ve Cried These Many Miles
A Kiss in the Shadows, a Whispered Memory
I’ll Be Waiting, All of My Life, Only My Only (Only My Lonely)
Rio Esperanza, It’s the River of Hope

There’s a Place in My Heart Where You’ll Always Be
Where the Shallows Run Long, and the Driftin’ Is Free

Oh My Darlin’ I’ve Cried These Many Miles
A Kiss in the Shadows, a Whispered Memory
I’ll Be Waiting, All of My Life, Only My Only (Only My Lonely)
Rio Esperanza, It’s the River of Hope

Across Windswept Hills Your Voice Calms to Caress Me
Like a Lover Stealing Glances
I Can’t Wait to Hold You
See the Light Flicker Softly
In a Blue Silverscape
It’s Such Sweet Surrender (And) I’ve Come Home Again

Oh My Darling
A Kiss in the Shadows
A Whispered Memory
I'll Be Waiting
All of My Life
Only My Only
Rio Esperanza
It's the River of Hope

The Swan
Composer(s): Jule Styne - Bob Merrill
Performer(s): Barbra Streisand



What are ya gonna do? 
Shoot da swans? These lovelies? 
Can't you see when you look at me 
What a lovely creature is a swan - yo hoo!! 
I'm all over fluffy white
I wouldn't peck at you or bite 
And have tiny twinkle toes to dance upon- 
Oh was that good? 
So you just gotta have a swan 
Or you're out of luck 
`Cause a chicken wouldn't do it 
Would only cluck 
And besides you couldn't say 
"I saw a chicken leg ballet" 
They would think you don't know nothin' 
You are missing you are button 
`Cause a chicken's only good for consummate 
Where upon, where upon, 
Where upon where upon 
A chicken or a duck is a mistake 
When you do Swan Lake Ballet! 

Come Fly With Me
Composer(s): Sammy Cahn; Jimmy van Heusen
Originally performed by: Frank Sinatra
Covered by various other artists



Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away 
If you can use some exotic booze 
There's a bar in far Bombay 
Come fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away 

Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru 
In llama land, there's a one-man band 
And he'll toot his flute for you 
Come fly with me, we'll float down in the blue 

Once I get you up there where the air is rarefied 
We'll just glide, starry-eyed 
Once I get you up there, I'll be holding you so near 
You may hear angels cheer because we're together 

Weatherwise it's such a lovely day 
You just say the word, and we'll beat the birds 
Down to Acapulco Bay 
It´s perfect for a flying honeymoon, they say 
Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away 

Rio De Janeiro Blue
Composer(s): John Haeny; Richard Torrance
Performer(s): Randy Crawford;
and various other artists



The clouds come-a creepin' and you got me weepin' this moment
I can't believe you're really gonna leave this town
everyone knows, I can't make a move with you
you're turnin' my whole world, upside-down
and I get a feelin' that I've seen the last of you, Rio De Janeior Blue

The salty air, your wind-blown hair, reflection on a dream
thoughts of you with who knows who, flowin' through me like a stream
Brazilian serenades, linger on
help me lose my soul, in your song
and I get a feelin', that I've seen that last of you, Rio De Janeiro Blue
Rio De Janeiro Blue

Months go by, I wonder why, I'm left here on my own
could it be my destiny, is to live this life alone
these dark and rainy days have turned me cold
long and sleepless nights, gettin' on
and I get a feelin' that I've seen the last of you, Rio De Janeiro Blue
Rio De Janeiro Blue

Rio.... Rio, De Janeiro Blue
Long and sleepless nights, whoa no
Rio...... Rio

Swamp Girl
Composer(s): Lew Brown
Performer(s): Frankie Laine; Ramsey Lewis



Where the crane flies through the marshes
And the turtles sun their shells
Where the water rat goes swimmin'
That's where my swamp girl dwells

Where the sunlight never wanders
And the moonlight never falls
Where the water's black with the devil's track
That's where my swamp girl calls

What did she say there
The girl with the golden hair
To make me follow her down there
How did she look when she took me by the hand

Tonight her hair will float in the water
And the gold will no longer shine
It will spread like a fan in the water
While she makes a mysterious sign
I have seen that sign before

Her eyes aren't like the whippoorwill
And her eyes aren't like the frog
Her eyes are like the damned bat
Stretchin' in the dawn

I have seen her face in the water
And the chilling look in her eyes
And if you see her, then you must flee her
Never follow where disillusion lies

Or will you go to the girl with the golden hair
Down there where her work is done
Will you embrace the night
And turn your back on the sun

She'll say its better there in the water
Where it's cool and calm and serene
She will call you to come to the water
To a world made of emerald green
I have heard that call before

I can hear it when I'm teary
I can hear it when I'm old
I can hear it when the joy of living
Seems to have lost its glow

For my Swamp Girl lives inside of me
And she leaves me pale and wan
She dares me, she tears me
Like paper dolls are torn

Calling "Come to the deep
Where your sleep is without a dream"
(Come to the deep where your sleep is without a dream)
Calling... (Come...)

Come È Profondo Il Mare
Composer(s): Lucio Dalla
Performer(s): Lucio Dalla



Siamo noi, siamo in tanti
ci nascondiamo di notte
per paura degli automobilisti
dei linotipisti
siamo gatti neri, siamo pessimisti, siamo i cattivi pensieri
non abbiamo da mangiare, come è profondo il mare
come è profondo il mare
Babbo che eri un gran cacciatore di quaglie e di fagiani
caccia via queste mosche che non mi fanno dormire
che mi fanno arrabbiare
come è profondo il mare, come è profondo il mare
E` inutile non c'è più lavoro, non c'è più decoro
Dio o chi per lui sta cercando di dividerci
di farci del male
di farci annegare
come è profondo il mare come è profondo il mare
Con la forza di un ricatto l'uomo divento qualcuno
resuscito anche i morti, spalanco prigioni, blocco sei treni
con relativi vagoni
innalzo per un attimo il povero a un ruolo difficile
da mantenere poi lo lascio cadere
a piangere e a urlare
solo in mezzo al mare
 come è profondo il mare
Poi da solo l'urlo divento un tamburo e il povero
come un lampo
nel cielo sicuro
comincio una guerra per conquistare quello scherzo di terra
che il suo grande cuore doveva coltivare
come è profondo il mare
come è profondo il mare
Ma la terra gli fu portata via compresa quella rimasta addosso
fu scaraventato in un palazzo o in un fosso, non ricordo bene
poi una storia di catene, bastonate e chirurgia sperimentale
Come è profondo il mare, come è profondo il mare
Intanto un mistico, forse un aviatore, scoprì la commozione
che rimise d'accordo tutti, i belli con i brutti
con qualche danno per i brutti che si videro consegnare
un pezzo di specchio così da potersi guardare
come è profondo il mare, come è profondo il mare
Frattanto i pesci, dai quali discendiamo tutti
assistettero curiosi, al dramma collettivo di questo mondo
che a loro indubbiamente doveva sembrare cattivo
e cominciarono a pensare, nel loro grande mare
come è profondo il mare
Nel loro grande mare, come è profondo il mare
E` chiaro che il pensiero d…
fastidio anche se chi pensa è muto come un pesce
anzi è un pesce e come pesce è difficile da bloccare
perchè lo protegge il mare, come è profondo il mare
Certo chi comanda non è disposto a fare distinzioni poetiche
il pensiero è come l'oceano
non lo puoi bloccare, non lo puoi recintare
Così stanno bruciando il mare
così stanno uccidendo il mare
così stanno umiliando il mare
così stanno piegando il mare 

Rio Bravo
Composer(s): Paul Francis Webster; Dimitri Tiomkin
Performer(s): Dean Martin;
and various other artists



(Choir: Rio Bravo, humming)
By the river Rio Bravo
I walk all alone
And I wonder as I wander by the river
Where my love has flown

All the birds in the cottonwoods above her
Know I love her, know I care,
But my dreams, like the songs, she sang in Spanish
Seem to vanish in the air; I wonder where

So I wonder as I wander
Will love come along
Must I live ever haunted
By the mem'ry of a song
While the river Rio Bravo flows along

(Choir: Rio Bravo, Rio Bravo)
While the river Rio Bravo flows along
(Choir: Rio Bravo)

The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II
First performance by: Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts and Betty Garde - 1943
Covered by multiple other artists



When I take you out, tonight, with me
Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be
You will set behind a team of snow white horses
In the slickest gig you 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
Nosey pokes'll peek thru' their shutters and their eyes will pop!
The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown
The dashboard's genuine leather
With isinglass curtains y' can roll right down
In case there's a change in the weather
Two bright sidelight's winkin' and blinkin'
Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin'
You c'n keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd keer to swap
Fer that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top! 
Did you say the fringe was made of silk
Wouldn't have no other kind but silk
Does it really have a team of snow white horses
One's like snow, the other's more like milk
All the world'll fly in a flurry
When I take you out in the surrey
When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!
When we hit that road, hell fer leather
Cats and dogs'll dance in the heather
Birds and frogs'll sing all together and the toads will hop!
The wind'll whistle as we rattle along
The cows'll moo in the clover
The river will ripple out a whispered song
And whisper it over and over
Don't you wisht y'd go on forever?
Don't you wisht y'd go on forever?
Don't you wisht y'd go on forever and ud never stop
In that shiny, little surrey with the fringe on the top!
I can see the stars gettin' blurry
When we drive back home in the surrey
Drivin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top!
I can feel the day gettin' older
Feel a sleepy head on my shoulder
Noddin', droopin' close to my shoulder, till it falls kerplop!
The sun is swimmin' on the rim of a hill
The moon is takin' a header
And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still
A lark'll wake up in the medder
Hush, you bird, my baby's a-sleepin'!
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'
Whoa! you team, and jist keep a-creepin' at a slow clip clop
Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top!

Come Down In Time
Composer(s): Bernie Taupin; Elton John
Originally performed by: Elton John
Covered by various other artists



In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet
But a true love like hers is a hard love to get
And I've walked most all the way and I ain't heard her call
And I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all

Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way

There are women and women and some hold you tight
While some leave you counting the stars in the night 

Rio 42
Composer(s): Chico Buarque
Performer(s): Chico Buarque



Se a guerra for declarada
Em pleno domingo de carnaval
Verás que um filho não foge à luta
Brasil, recruta
O teu pessoal

Se a terra anda ameaçada
De se acabar numa explosão de sal
Se aliste, meu camarada
A gente vai salvar o nosso carnaval

Vai ter batalha de bombardino
A colombina na Cruz Vermelha
Vai ter centelha na batucada
Rajada de tamborim
A melindrosa mandando bala
O mestre-sala curvando a Europa
A tropa do general da banda
Dançando o samba em Berlim

Se a guerra for declarada
A rapaziada ganha na moral
Se aliste, meu camarada
A gente vai salvar nosso carnaval

Sunshine Of Your Smile
Composer(s): Larry Ray - Lawrence Cooke
Performer(s): Frank Sinatra



Dear face that holds so sweet a smile for me
Were you not mine, how dark this world would be
I know no light above that could replace
Love's radiant sunshine in your lovely face

Give me a smile, the love-light in your eyes
Life could not hold a sweeter paradise
Give me the right to love you all the while
My world forever, the sunshine of your smile

Shadows may fall across the land and sea
Sunshine from all the world may hidden be
But I shall see no clouds across the sun
Your smile shall light my life till life is done

Give me a smile, the love-light in your eyes
Life could not hold a sweeter paradise
Give me the right to love you all the while
My world forever, the sunshine of your smile
My world forever, the sunshine of your smile

Come Dancing
Composer(s): Ray Davies
Originally performed by: The Kinks
Covered by various other artists



They put a parking lot on a piece of land
Right where the super market used to stand
Before that, they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local Pali
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday

Come dancing! All her boyfriends used to come and call
Come dancing! It's only natural........

Another Saturday, another date
She would be ready but she'd always make him wait
In the hallway in anticipation
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek

Come dancing! Come on, Sister! Have yourself a ball!
Don't be afraid to come dancing! It's only natural........

My sister should have come in at midnight
And my mom would always sit up and wait
It always ended up in a big row
When my sister used to get home late

Out in the moonlight, I could see them in the darkness
Two silhouettes, saying goodnight by the garden gate

The day they knocked down the Pali
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the Pali
My sister's childhood died.....(just died)

And now I'm grown up and playing in a band
And there's a car lot where the Pali used to stand
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
She's two grown daughters, now it's her turn to wait
She lets them get away with things she never could
But if I asked her, I wonder if she would......

Come dancing! Just like the Pali on a Saturday
Why not come dancing? Where the big bands used to play ........

Rio
Composer(s): Michael Nesmith
Performer(s): Michael Nesmith



I'm hearing the light from the window
I'm seeing the sound of the sea
My feet have come loose from their moorings
I'm feeling quite wonderfully free
And I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight
There's nothing I know of in Rio
But it's something to do with the night
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again I just might

There's wings to the thought behind fancy
There's wings to the thought behind play
And dancing to rhythms of laughter
Makes laughter the rhythm of rain
So I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight
There's nothing I know of in Rio
But it's something to do with the night
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
And I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again I just might

Spoken:
"This is the first call for Flight 77 to Rio de Janeiro
Now boarding at Gate 17, this is the first call"

I feel such a sense of well-being
The problems have come to be solved
And what I thought was proper for battle
I see now is proper for love
So I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight
There's nothing that I know of in Rio
But it's something to do with the night
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
And I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again I just might

I think I will travel to Rio
Using the music for flight
There's nothing I know of in Rio
But it's something to do with the night
It's only a whimsical notion
To fly down to Rio tonight
And I probably won't fly down to Rio
But then again I just might

Reno? Why Reno?
Not Reno dummy
Rio, Rio de Janeiro

The Sun Has Got His Hat On
Composer(s): Ralph Butler - Noel Gay
Performer(s): Ambrose & His Orch.



The sun has got his hat on, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out today
Now we’ll all be happy, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out today

He’s been tanning niggers out in Timbuktu
Now he’s coming back to do the same to you
So jump into your sunbath, hip-hip-hip-hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out today

All the little birds are singing
All the little gnats are stinging
All the little bees in twos and threes
Buzzing in the sun all day

The sun has got his hat on, hip-hip-hip-hooray

All the boys excited
All the little girls delighted
What a lot of fun for everyone
Sitting in the sun all day

Come Dance With Me
Composer(s): Tony Powers; M. Maurer
Performer(s): Jay & the Americans



Don't turn away; put him down, turn around and dance with me 
Do like I say, don't you go; tell him no and dance with me 
He may have walked you through the door 
And he may be planning a whole lot more 
But I'm gonna swing you 'round this floor; come dance with me 

Look him straight in his eyes, put him wise and come on and dance with me 
I'll sit and wait till you do; when you're through, come dance with me 
Just 'cause he spent the dime to phone ya 
And 20 bucks for the time he's shown ya 
That doesn't give him the right to own ya; dance with me 

I'm not the kind of guy who'd steal a fella's girl 
But baby, your feet I need 
And after taking just one look at you 
I've turned into an ever-loving deed, aye! 

You come into my arms, say goodbye to the guy and dance with me 
Leave all your charms in my care, take your dare and dance with me 
He may have brought you here, all right 
Thinking he'd get to hold you tight 
But you're gonna leave with me tonight, come dance with me 

He may have brought you here, all right 
Thinking he'd get to hold you tight 
But you're gonna leave with me tonight, come dance with me 

(repeat): 
Come dance with me

Rio
Adapted from: I Go To Rio - 1976
French Title: Je Vais À Rio - 1977
Composer(s): Peter Allen; Adrienne Anderson; Mary Boduin
Performer(s): Liliane Saint-Pierre - 1997



Ohohoh...

In m'n dromen
Vlieg ik als op vleugels
Door de lucht naar Rio de Janeiro
't Gaat gebeuren
En op slag wordt alles zo plezant
Vol kleuren en vol geuren

Carnaval met jou, wij samen
Tussen duizenden lichamen
Die dansen, als in een trance
Wat zijn we toch gelukkig
Dat we zo goed kunnen dromen allebei

In jouw dromen
Vliegen wij direct naar 't paradijs
In Rio de Janeiro
We zeggen cheerio
En we slapen in het veld
We leven altijd zonder geld
Maar hier van binnen rijk tegelijk

Ohohoh in m'n dromen
Laat ik al het grauwe hier
En ga naar Rio de Janeiro
't Gaat gebeuren
En op slag wordt alles zo plezant
Vol kleuren en vol geuren

En we doen alsof het echt is
Dat de wereld niet zo slecht is
En we dansen, als in een trance 
Tussen al die mensen die we maar verzinnen
Maar ze zingen in ons hoofd

Hey Rio
Rio de Janeiro
Ohohoh...

En we doen alsof het echt is
Dat de wereld niet zo slecht is
En we dansen, als in een trance 
Tussen al die mensen die we maar verzinnen
Maar ze zingen in ons hoofd

In m'n dromen
Vlieg ik als op vleugels
Door de lucht naar Rio de Janeiro
't Gaat gebeuren
En op slag wordt alles zo plezant
Vol kleuren en vol geuren

Oh in m'n dromen
Vlieg ik als op vleugels
Door de lucht naar Rio de Janeiro
't Gaat gebeuren
En op slag wordt alles zo plezant
Vol kleuren en vol geuren
Oh Rio
Ohohoh Rio

The Sun Gonna Shine In My Door Someday
Performer(s): Big Bill Broonzy



Just sittin' here hungry and ain't got a dime
Lord, look like my friends would come to see poor me sometime 
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Mama, the sun gonna shine in my door someday

When I was in jail, expecting a fine
When I went 'fore the judge, not a friend could I find 
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Woman, the sun gonna shine in my door someday 

Lord, I lost my father and my brother, too
That's why you hear me singing; Lord, I'm lonesome and blue 
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Mama, the sun gonna shine in my door someday 

Cried aloud, Lord, Lordy, Lord
Now, I used to be your regular, woman, now I got to be your dog
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Woman, the sun gonna shine in my door someday

Lord, I'm in trouble, no one to pay my fine 
Lord, when I get out of this county jail, I'm gonna leave this town of mine
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Mama, the sun gonna shine in my door someday

Lord, I've been droven from door to door
Now, it look like my friends don't want me around no more 
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Woman, the sun gonna shine in my door someday 

I was with my buddy through thick and thin
Lord, my buddy got away, but I got in
'Cause it doesn't matter who, Lord of Heaven
Mama, the sun gonna shine in my door someday

Come Closer To Me
Composer(s): Osvaldo Farrés; Stewart
Performer(s): Nat King Cole
and various other artists



Moonlight was made for a June night 
And June nights were made, dear
for love and romance 
For heavenly kisses, for lips sweet and tender 
On this night of splendour 
You're so far away 

Come closer to me so I can see 
heaven in your eyes 
Come closer to me so I can be 
close to Paradise 

Thrill me with your kisses 
Let me learn what bliss is 
Kiss me once and then we'll kiss and kiss again 
And life will be divine 

Come closer my dear 
So I can hear 
music in my heart 
I've waited so long to hear 
the song that youre love will start 

Darling I'll adore you 
Live my life just for you 
All I ask is this 
please give me one more kiss 
and whisper you'll be mine 

Come closer to me ...