Johnny Mercer Quotes
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There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.
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From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
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I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.
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My publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'
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Cigarette holder,which wigs me,over her shouldershe digs me:Out cattin'that Satin Doll.
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Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.
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So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goodyYou met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody
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When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you
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I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah
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The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked 'nevermore' that wasn't there before
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You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Lead us lest too far we wander.Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.