Top 29 Johnny Mercer Quotes
#2. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
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#9. It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.
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#10. 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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#11. Could tell you a lot, but you've gotta be true to the code. Make it one for my baby and one more for the road.
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#12. I remember too, a distant bell ... and stars that fell ... like the rainout of the blue.
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#13. I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine.
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#14. When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.
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#15. She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.
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#16. Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#21. Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.
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#22. You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.
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#23. Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
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#25. The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold ... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.
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#27. Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
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#29. 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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