Thanks For The Memory 1937

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 9 September 2011
2011

Yes, we've travelled
far and wide together,
Did we travel too fast?
Now I reminisce and wonder whether,
any good things ever last,
But that, dear, is past.

Thanks for the memory,
of rainy afternoons,
Swingy Harlem Tunes,
And motor trips and burning lips,
and burning toast and prunes,
How lovely it was!
Thanks for the memory,
of candlelight and wine,
Castles on the Rhine,
Your cosy chair and parties,
where we sang "Sweet Adeline",
How lovely it was!
Many's the time that we feasted,
And many's the time that we fasted.
Oh, well, it was well while it lasted.
We did have fun,
no harm was done.
And Thanks for the Memory,
of sunburns at the shore,
nights in Singapore,
You might have been a headache,
but you never were a bore,
So thank you so much.

Thanks for the memory,
of sentimental verse,
Nothing in my purse,
And chuckles
when the preacher said,
"For Better or for Worse!"
How lovely it was!
Thanks for the Memory,
of lingerie with lace,
Pilsner by the case,
And how I jumped the day,
you trumped my one and only Ace,
How lovely it was!
We said goodbye with a highball;
Then I got as "high" as a steeple.
But we were intelligent people,
No tears, no fuss, hurray for us.
So thanks for the memory,
and strictly 'entre nous',
Darling, how are you?
And how are all the little dreams
that never did come true?
Awf'ly glad I met you,
Cheerio and toodleoo
And thank you so much.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Thanks For The Memory 1937
by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger
© MCMXXXVII by Paramount Music Corp.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 9 September 2011 at 19.33
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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from The Paramount Picture
"The Big Broadcast of 1938"
starring W.C.Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross....
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