Imagination is funny It makes a cloudy day sunny It makes a bee think of honey Just like I think of youImagination is crazy Your whole perspective gets hazy It starts you asking a daisy what to do What to doHave you ever felt a gentle touch And then a kiss, then and then You find it's only your imagination again Oh wellImagination is silly You go around willy-nilly For example I go around wanting you Yet I can't imagine that you want me too
Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans I miss it, each night and day The longer I stay away Miss the moist covered vines The tall sugar pines Where mocking birds use to sing And I like to see the lazy Mississippi Are hurrying to spring The mardy grass memories Of creool tunes that fill the air I dream of orleanders in June And soon I'm wishing that I was there Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans And there is something more I miss the one I care for More than I miss New Orleans
Basin Street is the street Where all the white and the black folk meet Down in New Orleans, the land of dreams You never know how much it seems Not just how much it really means I'm glad to be, yessirree, in the land of reverie I can't lose my Basin Street Blues
Oh please, don't talk about me when I'm gone Although our friendship ceases from now onHey Carmen, if you can't say anything real nice It's better not to talk at all, that's my adviceWe are parting You go your way I'll go mine It's best that we do Here's a little kiss I hope that this brings lots of love to youMakes no difference how I carry on 'Cause baby I know you'd better not talk about me when I'm gone
Moonlight and magnolias, starlight in your hair All the world a dream come true Did it really happen, was I really there Was I really there with you We lived our little drama, we kissed in a field of white And stars fell on Alabama that night I can't forget the glamour, your eyes held a tender light And stars fell on Alabama last nightI never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly A fairy land that no one else could enter And in the center, just you and me, dear My heart beat like a hammer, my arms wound around you tight And stars fell on Alabama last night"Alright, let's take it on down from Muscle Shoals through Decatur" "Mmmm, Birmingham, ooh Montgomery" "Right up over Spanish Fort into Mobile, my hometown" "Mister T..."I never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly A fairy land that no one else could enter And in the center, just you and me, dear My heart beat like a hammer, my arms wound around you tight Ah, stars fell on Alabama last night"One more time boys..." Yes, we lived our little drama We kissed on the dunes so white And stars fell on Alabama Last night
S' wonderful! 'S marvelous! You should care for me! S' awful nice! 'S paradise! S' what I love to see!You've made my life so glamorous You can't blame me for feeling amorous. Oh! 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!S' wonderful! S' marvelous! That you should care for me! S' awful nice! S' paradise! S' what I love to see!My dear, it's four-leaf clover time From now on my heart's working overtime. Oh! S' wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
I could while away the hours Conferrin with the flowers Consultin with the rain And my head I'd be scratchin While my thoughts were busy hatchin If I only had a brain
I'd unravel any riddle For any individd-el In trouble or in pain With the thoughts I'd be thinkin I could be another Lincoln If I only had a brain
Oh, I could tell you why The ocean's near the shore I could think of things I never thunk before And then I'd sit and think some more
I would not be just a nothin My head all full of stuffin My heart all full of pain Perhaps I deserve you And be even worthy erve you If I only had If I only had a brain
Do nothin' till you hear from me Pay no attention to what's said Why one should tear the seam of anyone's dream It's over my headDo nothin' till you hear from me At least consider our romance If you should take the word of others you heard Baby, I haven't a chanceTrue I've been seen With someone new That doesn't mean I've been untrue While we're apart The words in my heart Reveal how I feel about youSome kiss may cloud my memory And other arms may hold a thrill But please do nothin' till you hear it from me Baby, you never will