by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

How sad, how lovely, how short, how sweet, to see the sunset at the end of a street and the day gathered in to a single light and the shallows rising from the brim of the night too few, too few are th

by John D. Loudermilk on album Blue Train

The one you see me kiss the one you see me hug Is really not the one that I really love Oh oh how sad how sad to know the one you love you'll never have The one you see me date and take out for a stea

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

I'll tell you a story about Johnny McClory: that's how my story was begun. I'll tell you another about Johnny's brother, and now you may think my story is done... The first time I met Johnny I could

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

Ever since we met the world's been upside-down, and if you don't stop troublin' me you'll drive me out of town. But if you go away, as trouble ought to do, where will I find another soul to tell my tr

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

I'm just a dusty cowhand, a dusty, thirsty soul. I used to keep my money in a pocket with a hole. I've got one ambition like wishing for the moon: to drink a glass of pleasure, four-measure, bulgin'

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

People say a roving woman is likely not to be better than she ought to be; so, when I stray away from where I've got to be, someone always takes me home. A lady never should habituate saloons, and th

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

I'll tell you a story about Johnny McClory: that's how my story was begun. I'll tell you another about Johnny's brother, and now you may think my story is done... The first time I met Johnny I could

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

Honeybee, go and tell a starling to go and tell my darling to hurry home to me. Honeybee, say I'm sad and lonely, and say I'm wishing' only his lovin' smile to see. We had a fight and he's been gone

by Leroy Carr on album How Long How Long Blues

How long babe how long Has that evenin' train been gone? How long, how, how long, baby how long? Went and asked at the station: 'why's my baby leavin' town?' You were disgusted, nowhere could peace b

by Leroy Carr on album How Long, How Long Blues / My Own Lonesome Blues

How long babe how long Has that evenin' train been gone? How long, how, how long, baby how long? Went and asked at the station: 'why's my baby leavin' town?' You were disgusted, nowhere could peace b

by Babyface feat. Stevie Wonder on album How Come, How Long

There was a girl, I used to know, she was, oh, so beautiful But she's not here anymore, she had a college degree Smart as anyone could be, she had so much to live for But she fell in love with the wr

by Babyface feat. Stevie Wonder on album How Come, How Long

There was a girl, I used to know, she was, oh, so beautiful But she's not here anymore, she had a college degree Smart as anyone could be, she had so much to live for But she fell in love with the wr

by Babyface feat. Stevie Wonder on album How Come, How Long

There was a girl, I used to know, she was, oh, so beautiful But she's not here anymore, she had a college degree Smart as anyone could be, she had so much to live for But she fell in love with the wr

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

Shall we dine out, my dear, and dance the night away? Don't say you're tired; you know you haven't worked all day. We paid the rent finally, and we're free to be be free. Come now and waltz the Empty

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

There is a vine growing on my garden wall, and it is brown and withered in the fall, and in the spring its leaves are green and blossoms all aflame, but, spring or fall, still I love you just the same

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

There once was a girl in the olden days grew weary of men with a roving gaze - 'Farewell, fickle lovers; goodbye, goodbye, for I'm falling in love with the man in the sky.' The man in the sky, he wal

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

Once there was a trumpeter blew his love a ballad; that was not enough for her so he blew her a lobster salad. Blow a little louder, Love. Show me that you're thinkin' of your honey. Blow a little lo

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

We go walking in the dark. We go walking out at night. And it's not as lovers go, two by two, to and fro; but it's one by one - One by one in the dark. We go walking out at night. As we wander thro

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

When my man goes to sea, he steps so high and free. I think I know as I watch him go that he has no need for me, for me. And when my man comes home and waits a while to roam, I think I see when he sm

by Connie Converse on album How Sad, How Lovely

We lived alone My house and I We had the Earth, we had the sky I had a lamp against the dark And I was happy as a lark We lived alone My house and I We had the Earth, we had the sky I had a lamp again