How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Blue skies smiling at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly.

Sun is still shining
Look at the view
Moon is still dining
With me and you"


(Yes! I finally got a Moodies song on the board! I think Mike Pinder must have been on the waccy baccy when he wrote this)

[ekim]

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me.

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Starlight

So Bright

(Madge)

[ekim]

I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing a moonlight serenade.

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and I sing you a moonlight serenade.

[Aruntraveller]

And when I go away
I know my heart can stay with my love / it's understood
It's in the hands of my love / and my love does it good
Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo / my love does it good

[ekim]

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu!
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye!

[Aruntraveller]

Meine Damen und Herren-
 Mes dames et Messieurs-
 Ladies and Gentlemen,
 Where are your troubles now?
 Forgotten, I told you so!
 We have no troubles here
 Here life is beautiful.
 The girls are beautiful.
 Even the orchestra is beautiful.
 Aufwiedersehen!
А bientôt!

(Ok so not strictly speaking a song, but I don't care)

[ekim]

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
Don't let your joy and laughter hear the snag
Smile boys, that's the style
What's the use of worrying
It never was worth while
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.

[Nearly Sane]

Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile what’s the use of crying
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you’ll just
Smile


(Music by Charlie Chaplin)

[Aruntraveller]

Flowers are smiling bright
 Smiling for our delight
 Smiling so tenderly
 For all the world, you and me

I know why the world is smiling
 Smiling so tenderly
 It hears the same old story
 Through all eternity

Love, this is my song
 Here is a song, a serenade to you
 The world cannot be wrong
 If in this world there is you

(Chaplin again)

[ekim]

Serenade
Our love is a serenade
A song the heavens made and angels played
When first we kissed
We touched and I became divine my love
Because of you the stars that shine my love
They're mine my love.

Serenade
Our love is the serenade
A song of sweet desire
No earthly choir could quite resist
I have known the magic of
A theme that cannot fake
Our serenade of love.

[Nearly Sane]

Did you see the lights
As they fell all around you
Did you hear the music
Serenade from the stars

Wake up, wake up
Wake up and look around you
We're lost in space
And the time is our own

[ekim]

The stars at night - are big and bright
Deep in the heart of texas.
The prairie sky - is wide and high
Deep in the heart of texas.
The sage in bloom - is like perfume
Deep in the heart of texas.
Reminds me of - the one I love
Deep in the heart of texas.

[Nearly Sane]

There's a yellow rose in Texas that I'm gonna see
Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me
She cried, so when I left her it'd like to broke my heart
And if I'd ever find her, we never more will part
She's the sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds; they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about, Clementine, and sing of Rosalee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me

[Aruntraveller]

Ah but has

"She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds"

[Nearly Sane]

You keep thinking what you shouldn't be thinking
Another to far is down till you kissing ground
I'm a gonna send you back home till you crying
But Uncle Jessie he sure is gonna be proud
These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of theses days these boots are gonna walk all over you
These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of theses days these boots are gonna walk all over you

[ekim]

When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of the lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone.

[Aruntraveller]

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all of the time

Oh, yeah
Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
And I just can't get my poorself together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
Oh, yeah
If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me.

[Nearly Sane]

Apologies, I see trentvoyager has posted in the meantime, but it's just too gorgeous a lyric not to share


When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell,
Songbirds sing; winter turns to spring.
Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell.
I know such enchantment can be, 'cos it happened one evening to me:

That certain night, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz,
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

[Nearly Sane]

(It's the rocking chair that triggered this)


Through the night my heart was aching
And just before the dawn was breaking,
I peeked in and on her bed,
In gay profusion lying there,
Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair
If I live to be a hundred,
I will never, never know from where,
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons,
Scarlet Ribbons for her hair

[Aruntraveller]

Apologies, I see trentvoyager has posted in the meantime, but it's just too gorgeous a lyric not to share


When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell,
Songbirds sing; winter turns to spring.
Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell.
I know such enchantment can be, 'cos it happened one evening to me:

That certain night, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air,
There were angels dining at the Ritz,
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

I may have mentioned this before but there is a lovely rendition of this by John Le Mesurier well worth tracking down imho. He doesn't really sing it - but it's still rather beautiful.

[Aruntraveller]

back to the lyrics:

Captain Scarlet,
 He's the one who knows the Mysterons' game,
 And things they plan.
 Captain Scarlet,
 To his Martian foes, a dangerous name,
 A Superman.

 They crash him, and his body may burn.
 They smash him, but they know he'll return,
 To live again.

 Captain Scarlet,
 As the Angels are flying, wing to wing,
 Into the scene,
 Spectrum is Green.

 Captain Scarlet,

 Though the Mysterons plan to conquer the Earth,
 This indestructible man will show what he's worth.

 Captain Scarlet,
 In-des-tructible,
 Captain Scarlet.

[Nearly Sane]

I may have mentioned this before but there is a lovely rendition of this by John Le Mesurier well worth tracking down imho. He doesn't really sing it - but it's still rather beautiful.

Not to me and it is rather beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFv1653s-pY

[Nearly Sane]

Oh superman.
Oh judge.
Oh mom and dad.
Mom and dad.
Oh superman.
Oh judge.
Oh mom and dad.
Mom and dad.

Hi, I'm not home right now. but if you want to leave
a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
hello?
this is your mother. are you there? are you coming home?
hello? is anybody home?
well, you don't know me, but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready. ready to go.
You can come as you are, but pay as you go.

[ekim]

I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your smile
You're all I've ever wanted and my arms are open wide
Cause you know just what to say and you know just what to do
And I want to tell you so much, I love you.