Yesterday's Thrill 1936 'Soft Lights and Sweet Music'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 03 Oct 2002

Weary and bitter, all alone,
I go my lonely way.
Weary of folly, try to atone,
and what a price I pay!

I'm just a woman whose future is past,
I've got a feeling I'm beaten at last,
My courage wavers,
I've travelled too far
in search of yesterday's thrill.
I've known the glory of flirting with fame,
You've read my story, you all know my name,
men begged my favours when I was a star,
but now I'm yesterday's thrill.
Wilful and hazy,
I would not show
I loved just one man best;
must have been crazy,
I let him go,
and clung to all the rest.
I've walked the highways,
with bright lights above
I'm haunting byways in search of my love
but when I find him then maybe he too,
will call me yesterday's thrill.

I'm just a woman whose future is past,
I've got a feeling I'm beaten at last,
My courage wavers,
I've travelled too far
in search of yesterday's thrill.
I've known the glory of flirting with fame,
You've read my story, you all know my name,
men begged my favours when I was a star,
but now I'm yesterday's thrill.
Wilful and hazy,
I would not show
I loved just one man best;
must have been crazy,
I let him go,
and clung to all the rest.
I've walked the highways,
with bright lights above
I'm haunting byways in search of my love
but when I find him then maybe he too,
will call me yesterday's thrill.

How I dread waking, each new day
shatters night's precious dreams,
still I keep making, for each new day
sad, little, hopeless schemes!

I'm just a woman whose future is past,
I've got a feeling I'm beaten at last,
My courage wavers,
I've travelled too far
in search of yesterday's thrill.
I've known the glory of flirting with fame,
You've read my story, you all know my name,
men begged my favours when I was a star,
but now I'm yesterday's thrill.
Wilful and hazy,
I would not show
I loved just one man best;
must have been crazy,
I let him go,
and clung to all the rest.
I've walked the highways,
with bright lights above
I'm haunting byways in search of my love
but when I find him then maybe he too,
will call me yesterday's thrill.

I'm just a woman whose future is past,
I've got a feeling I'm beaten at last,
My courage wavers,
I've travelled too far
in search of yesterday's thrill.
I've known the glory of flirting with fame,
You've read my story, you all know my name,
men begged my favours when I was a star,
but now I'm yesterday's thrill.
Wilful and hazy,
I would not show
I loved just one man best;
must have been crazy,
I let him go,
and clung to all the rest.
I've walked the highways,
with bright lights above
I'm haunting byways in search of my love
but when I find him then maybe he too,
will call me yesterday's thrill.

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Yesterday's Thrill 1936
Lyrics by Sybil Wise
Music by Len Challis
copyright 1936 by Francis, Day and Hunter Ltd.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Thursday 03 October 2002 at 18.16
in association with Doug Grierson
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Featured in the British Lion Production
'Soft Lights and Sweet Music'
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