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This Bitter Earth
04:27
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This bitter earth
What fruit it bears
This bitter earth
if my life is like the dust
Ooh, that hides the glow of a rose
What good am I?
Heaven only knows
Mm, this bitter earth
Can be so cold
Today you're young
Too soon you're old
But while a voice
Within me cries
I'm sure someone
May answer my call
And this bitter earth
May not be so bitter after all
This bitter earth
Mm, this bitter earth
What good is love?
Mm, that no one shares
And if my life
Is like the dust
Ooh, that hides the glow of a rose
What good am I?
What good am I?
Heaven only knows
I’m sure someone may answer call
And this bitter earth
May not be so bitter after all
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2. |
How Lovely to Be a Woman
04:10
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How lovely to be a woman, the wait was well worth while
How lovely to wear mascara and smile a woman’s smile
How lovely to have a figure that is round instead of flat
Whenever you hear boys whistle, you’re what they’re whistling at
How wonderful to feel the way a woman feels
It gives you such a glow just to know you’re wearing lipstick and heels
How lovely to be a woman, and change from boys to men
To go to a fancy nightclub and stay out after ten
How lovely to be all grown-up and free
Life’s lovely when you’re a woman like me
Like me, like me
Oh, how lovely to be a woman, the wait was well worth while
How lovely to wear mascara and smile a woman’s smile
How lovely to have a figure that is round instead of flat
Whenever you hear boys whistle, you’re what they’re whistling at
It’s wonderful to know the things a woman knows
How marvelous to wait for a date in simply beautiful clothes
How Lovely to be a woman, and have one job to do
To pick out a boy and train him, and then when you are through
You’ve made him the man you want him to be
How lovely to be a woman like me
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I’ve been cheated before and I’m cheated again
By a mean little world full of mean little men and
the one chance for me is this life I know best
to be here on this island to hell with the rest
I’ll cling to this island like a rock or a stone
I’ll cling to Manhattan and be free, and alone
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
Of people
Whose eyes are oddly made
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
Yes, you've got to
Be carefully taught
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
Yes, you've got to
Be carefully taught
You've got to
Be carefully taught
You've got to
Be carefully taught
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4. |
Getting to Know You
06:19
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It's a very ancient saying
But a true and honest thought
That if you become a teacher
By your pupils you'll be taught
As a teacher I've been learning
You'll forgive me if I boast
And I've now become an expert
On the subject I like most
Getting to know you
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me
Getting to know you
Putting it my way
But nicely
You are precisely
My cup of tea
Getting to know you
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me
Getting to know you
Putting it my way
But nicely
You are precisely
My cup of tea
Getting to know you
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all those beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day
Getting to know you
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me
Getting to know you
Putting it my way
But nicely
You are precisely
My cup of tea
Ooh, getting to know you
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you
Getting to know what to say
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
And yearning about you
Beautiful and new things
Get to know all of those new things
Day by day
Day by day
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5. |
The Man I Love
04:50
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Someday he’ll come along, the Man I love
And he’ll be big and strong, the Man I love
And when he comes my way I’ll do my best to make him stay
He’ll look at me and smile, I’ll understand
Then in a little while he’ll take my hand
And though it seems absurd I know we both won’t say a word, a word
Maybe I will meet him Sunday, maybe Monday, maybe not
But I’m sure to meet him one day. Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day
He’ll build a little home for just us two
from which I’ll never roam who would? Would you?
Mm, all else above I’m waiting for the man I love
Well, maybe I’ll meet him Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Or maybe not
But I’m sure to meet him someday. Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day
He’ll build a little home for just us two
from which I’ll never roam. Who would? Would you, would you?
Mm, all else above I’m waiting for the man I love
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One, two
Comes a temptation, I never resisted
Love is a danger, I’m willing to risk it
You are that danger, and danger is Y-O-U
And so you better not come knocking on my door or I’ll throw away the key
You better not go messing round my heart you’ll end up hurting me
You’ve got the kind of eyes that I could go for
You got the kind of lips that makes me want to know more
And so you better not say nice things just for me or I’ll tum-tum-tumble down
And if you ever smile that secret smile that lovers smile I’ll drown
You’re just the kind of a guy that I always dreamed of, but one I’d never meet it seemed
Of course you know that once the flame has started
you’ve got to let it burn and glow or I’ll be broken hearted
Please say you’ll love me or set me free
Cause you’re the dangerous type of a guy for me
I saw you first, how well do I remember a stranger on the street
And when I saw no ring upon your finger my heart skipped a beat
You soaked the seeds of love that soon must flower
You got my motor racing ninety miles an hour
I don’t believe I ever felt infatuation at such a crazy sting
I had never known a heaven here on Earth where every day was spring
so tell me if there’s no hope for my scheming pinch me awake and stop this dreamin’
Don’t you know that once the wheel is turning
Acceleration makes it go until the brake is burning
Please say you’ll love me or set me free
Cause you’re the dangerous type of a guy
Cause you’re the dangerous type of a guy
Cause you’re the dangerous variety of male species for me
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7. |
Trust in Me
05:19
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Trust in me, just in me
shut your eyes
trust in me
You can sleep safe and sound
Knowing I am around
Slip into silent slumber, sail on a silvery mist
Slowly, but surely your senses will cease to exist
Trust in me, just in me
shut your eyes
trust in me
Slip into silent slumber, sail on a silvery mist
Slowly, but surely your senses will cease to exist
Trust in me, just in me
shut your eyes
trust in me
shut your eyes
trust in me
shut your eyes
trust in me
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He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
But it didn't hurt me
He couldn't stand to hear me say that I had been with someone new,
And when I told him I had been untrue
He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew he loved me
If he didn't care for me
I would have never made him mad
But he hit me,
And I was glad
Yes, he hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew I loved him
And then he took me in his arms
With all the tenderness there is,
And when he kissed me,
He made me his
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9. |
As Long as He Needs Me
04:55
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As Long as he needs me. Oh yes, he does need me
In spite of what you see I‘m sure that he needs me
Who else would love him still, when they’ve been used so ill?
He knows I always will, as Long as he needs me
I miss him so much when I am gone but when I’m near him I don’t let on
The way I feel inside, the love I’ve had to hide
to hell I’ve got my pride As Long as he needs me
He doesn’t say the things he should, he acts the way he thinks he should but
all the same, I’ll play this game his way
As Long as he needs me, I know where I must be
I’ll cling on steadfastly As Long as he needs me
As long as life is long, I’ll love him right or wrong
and somehow I’ll be strong, As Long as he needs me
If you are lonely then you will know
when someone needs you, you love them so
I won’t betray his trust though people say I must
I’ve got to stay true just As Long as he needs me
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Everybody has the right to be wrong
Everybody has the right to be wrong at least once
Everybody has the right to be dunce-like, once-like
Not being too smart is, is no disgrace
What sets you apart is smilin' with egg on your face
It’s naïve to make believe that you're right, it's not bright
Only fools go walking on thin ice twice
You and life can skip the strife and you'll both get along
All it takes is simply saying you're wrong when you're wrong
And everybody has the right to be wrong
It’s naïve to make believe that you're right, it's not bright
Only fools go walking on thin ice twice
You and life can skip the strife and you'll both get along
All it takes is simply saying you're wrong when you're wrong
And everybody, everybody, everybody has the right to be wrong
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11. |
Prisoner of Love
04:16
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Alone from night to night you find me
too weak to break these chains that bind me
I need no shackles to remind me, I’m just a prisoner of love
For one command I stand and wait now
For one who’s master of my fate now
I can’t escape for it’s too late now, I’m just a prisoner of love
What’s the good of my caring when someone is sharing those arms with me
Though he has another I can’t have another for I’m not free
He’s in my dreams awake or sleeping
Upon my knees to him I’m creeping
My very soul is in his keeping
I’m just a prisoner of love
What’s the good of my caring when someone is sharing those arms with me
Though he has another I can’t have another for I’m not free
I’m yours in my dreams awake or sleeping
Upon my knees to you I’m creeping
My very soul is in your keeping
I’m just a prisoner of love
I had a heart so true. Now I have none, and you have two
So don’t give me the runaround cause you know I’m forever bound
To be your prisoner of love
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12. |
The Sports Page
06:21
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My favorite TV anchorman said “watch the Middle East, the price of oil is really out of sight”
And only yesterday he said the price would never be increased
and that’s the opposite of what he said last night
it gets so tough to understand this stuff, I don’t really want to bother anymore
but by the time I understand the news that I read today
I forget the news I read the day before
But then I turn to the sports page
and I see the Lakers didn’t make it
now there’s no way that they could fake it
you can’t say you win if you lose
cause there it was on the sports page
there’s no way to deny it
you win you lose or you tie it
You can’t cover it up in the news
Businessmen and congressmen and other shifty guys
they all got stuff they’re always trying to pull
And this scratchy stuff I feel that’s being pulled down around my eyes
I’m beginning to identify as wool
There’s an exposé above the CIA in the radio, the TV and the press
and after all the different versions of what I’m supposed to know
I wind up understanding even less
But then I turn to the sports page, and Aaron Judge made an error
Now how could they report it any fairer, the sun must’ve got in his eyes
Cause there it was on the sports page
just the simple facts I’m finding
not another axe somebody’s grinding
You can’t change the score by telling lies
Lies, lies, ooh
Now back a couple seasons when the Mets were riding high
astronauts were walking on the moon
I watched it on the TV and I looked up into the sky
and then I started laughing like a loon
it could all be fake like a movie they could make
And we’d all believe they’re really up in space
And the Russians would be busy making phony movies too
and we’d never know who really won the race
But then I turn to the sports page
and the Mets had blown it in the 13th inning
they can’t make losing look like winning
I think the Phillies took it 5-4
Cause there it was on the sports page
The only page that takes a firm position
kind of like an honest politician, the kind you don’t find anymore
in fact the sports page is the only place to go when a fella wants to know the score
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13. |
Sing
05:44
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There is this thing that's like touching except you don't touch
Back in the day it just went without saying at all
All the world's history gradually dying of shock
There is this thing that's like talking except you don't talk
You sing
You sing
Sing for the bartender, sing for the janitor, sing
Sing for the cameras sing, for the animals, sing
Sing for the children shooting the children, sing
Sing for the teachers who told you that you couldn't sing
Just sing
There is this thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance
After the show you cannot sing wherever you want
But for now let's just pretend we're all gonna get bombed
And sing
Sing cause it's obvious, sing for the astronauts, sing
Sing for the soccer team, sing for the Janjaweed, sing
Sing for the president, sing for the terrorists, sing
Sing for the kid with the phone who refuses to sing
Just sing, just sing, just sing…
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Veronica Swift Los Angeles, California
Not even 30 years old yet, Veronica Swift's command of the vocal-jazz tradition is astounding. Named Best New Artist in JazzTimes’ 2019 Readers’ Poll, Swift has toured as a featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti. A master of vocalese and scat performance, she applies her gifts to genre-blurring works that continue to propel her rising star. ... more
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