＊ビリー・ホリデイ「奇妙な果実」 －歌詞－
STRANGE FRUIT
Southern trees
Bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the root
Blackbody is swinging
In the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’
From the poplar trees
Pastor Lucien of gallant sound
Of bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias
Sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell
Of burning flesh
Here is a fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to get up
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
YESTERDAYS
Yesterdays
Days are new as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
Them gay youth was mine
Truth was mine
Join us be in flame and live
Then sooth was mine
Sad and mired
Glad and mired
For today I'm dreamin’ of
Yesterdays
FINE AND MELLOW
My man don’t love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man he don’t love me
Treats me awfully
He's the lowest man
That I've ever seen
＊ He wears high trimmed pan
Stripes are really yellow
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But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow
＊ Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
«repeat
Love will make you do things
That you know is wrong
＊But if you treat me right baby
I'll stay home everyday
＊ repeat
But you're so mean to me baby
I know you're gonna drive me away
＊Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
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Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone
I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES
＊I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to moan inside
I gotta right to sit and cry
Down around the river
A certain man in this little town
Keeps draggin’my poor heart around
All T see for me is misery
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Soon that deep blue sea
Will be callin’ me
It must be love say what you choose
I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to sing the blues
I gotta right to moan and cry
I gotta sit and sigh
Down around the river
Soon that deep blue sea
Will be callin’me
It must be love say what you choose
I gotta right to sing the blues
There's nothing left for me
I'm full of misery
I gotta right to sing the blues
HOW AM I TO KNOW
Oh
How am I to know
If it’s really love
That's found its way here
Oh
How am I to know
Will it linger on
And leave me then
I'll dare not guess
At this strange happiness
But oh
How am I to know
Can it be that love
Has come to stay here
MY OLD FLAME
My old flame
I can’t even think of his name
But it’s funny now and then
How my thoughts go flashing back again
To my old flame
My old flame
My new lovers all seem so tame
For I haven't met a gent
So innocent or elegant
As my old flame
＊I've met so many men
With fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Some who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame
I can’t even think of his name
But I'll never be the same
Until I discover what became
Of my old flame
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I'LL GET BY
I'll get by
As long as I have you
Oh there'll be rain
And darkness too | I'll not complain
I'll live with you
Poverty
May come to me that's true
But what care I
I'll get by
As long as I have you
I COVER THE WATERFRONT
＊ I cover the waterfront
I'm watching the sea
Will the one I love
Be coming back to me
I cover the waterfront
In search of my love
And I'm covered
By a starlit sky above
＊Here am 1
Patiently waiting
Hoping and longing
Oh how I yearn
Where are you
Have you thought back time
Will you remember
Will you return
* repeat
* repeat
* repeat
Will the one I love
Be coming back
To me
I'LL BE SEEING YOU
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day and through
In that small cafe
The park across the way
The children’s carrousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well
* I'll be seeing you
In every lovely summer's day
In everything that’s light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you
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I'M YOURS
Ask the sky above
And ask the earth below
Why I'm so in love
And why I love you so
Couldn't tell you though I tried do
Just why I'm yours
When you went away
You left a glowing spark
Trying to be gay as
Whistling in the dark
I am only what you make me
Come take me
I'm yours
＊How I happy
I would be to beg or borrow
For sorrow
With you
Even though I knew
Tomorrow
You'd say we were through
If we drift apart
Then I'll be lost and alone
Though you use my heart
Just for a steppin’stone
How can I help dreaming of you
I love you
I'm yours
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EMBRACEABLE YOU
Embrace me
My sweet embraceable you
Embrace me
My irreplaceable you
Just to look at you
My heart grows tipsy in me
You and you alone
Bring out the gypsy in me
＊ I love all
The many charms about you
Above all
I want my arms about you
Don’t be naughty baby
Come to me
Come to me do
My sweet embraceable you
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AS TIME GOES BY
You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say I love you
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
＊Moonlight and lovesongs
Never out of date
Hearts filled with passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny
It’s still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
Though I will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
* repeat
SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY
(He's Funny That Way)
I'm not much to look at
Nothing to see
Just glad I'm livin’ and
Lucky to be
I've got a man
Crazy for me
He's funny that way
I can’t save a dollar
Ain’t worth a cent
He doesn’t holler
He'd live in a tent
I've got a man
Crazy for me
He's funny that way
Though he loves
To work and slave
For me everyday
He'd be so much
Better off
If I went away
But why should 1 leave him
Why should I go
He'd be unhappy
Without me I know
I've got that man
Mad about me
He's funny that way
I can’t see
No other way
And no better plans
End it all
And let him go
To some other gal
But I'm only human
A coward at best
I'm more than certain
He'd follow me west
I've got a man
Crazy for me
He's funny that way
LOVER COME BACK TO ME
The sky was blue
And high above
The moon was new
And so was love
This eager heart of mine was singing
Lover where can you be
You came at last
Love had its day
That day is past
You've gone away
This aching heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me
When I remember every little thing
You used to do
I'm so lonely
Every road I walk along
I walk along with you
No wonder I am lonely
The sky is blue
The night is cold
The moon is new
But love is old
And while I'm waiting here
This heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me
When I remember every little thing
You used to do
I grow lonely
Every road I walk along
I walk along with you
No wonder I am lonely
The sky is blue
The night is cold
The moon is new
But love is old
And while I'm waiting here
This heart of mine is singing
Lover come back to me
I LOVE MY MAN
＊I love my man
On my life I say I don’t
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But I'll quit my man
On my life I say I won't
I've been your slave baby
Ever since I've been your way
I've been your slave
Ever since I've been your faith
But before I be your dog
I'll see you in your grave
My man wouldn't give me no breakfast
Wouldn't give me no dinner
Squacked about my supper
Then he put me outdoors
Heaven erred to late
A matchbox on my clothes
I didn’t have so many
But I had a long long ways to go
＊I ain't good looking
And my hair ain’t curls
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But my mother she give me something
It’s going to carry me through this world
Some man like me‘cuz I'm happy
Some‘cuz I'm snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I've got money
Some say Billie
Baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that altogether
Makes me everything a good man needs
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
Grab your coat and get your hat
Leave your worry. on the doorstep
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street
Can't you hear a pitter-pat
And that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street
I used to walk in the shade
ith those blues on parade
But now I'm not afraid
This rover crossed over
If I'd never have a cent
I'd be rich as Rockefellor
Going to set my feet
On the sunny side of the street
＊ビリー・ホリデイ「奇妙な果実」 －歌詞－
