Jo Stafford - Capitol Collectors Series (2006) by Jo Stafford (보컬) on maniadb.com

How sweet you are, how sweet you are
How dear your tenderly smiling face
Through days all bitter and gray and grim
Through nights when even the stars are dim

How sweet to know my heart can glow
From just the warmth of our first embrace
The world's a lovelier world by far
When I remember how sweet you are

Through days all bitter and gray and grim
Through nights when even the stars are dim

How sweet to know my heart can glow
From just the warmth of our first embrace
The world's a lovelier world by far
When I remember how sweet you are

In the sleepy town of San Juanita
There's a story that a padre tells
Of a gay Senor and Senorita
And the serenade of the bells

Seems they asked the padre for permission
To be married early in the spring
But their folks had made just one condition
That the mission bells had to ring

Every one knew the bells were broken
And hadn't sounded for a long, long time
Then one night, the village was astounded
For the bells began to chime

Still the bells are broken, goes the story
But if in your heart, a true love dwells
They will ring for you in all their glory
That's the serenade of the bells

Every one knew the bells were broken
And hadn't sounded for a long, long time
Then one night, the village was astounded
For the bells began to chime

Still the bells are broken, goes the story
But if in your heart, a true love dwells
They will ring for you in all their glory
That's the serenade of the bells

It's great to be alive
To work from nine to five
To have a piece of land to farm

It's great to be alive
To have a car to drive
And have your baby on your arm

In spite of bills
And other minor ills
Somehow we manage to survive

It's great to be in love
To have a roof above
And watch the little ones around

Your own descendant
Deductable dependents
It's great to be alive

It's great to be alive
(It's great to be here and kickin')
To work from nine to five
(To hear an alarm clock tickin')
And have a piece of land to farm
(It's really a kick to cultivate chickens on a little ol' farm)

It's great to be alive
(It's up to work and strivin')
To have a car to drive
(Then take your girl to a drive-in)
And swing your baby on your arm
(To know that at five you're really arrivin', she'll be holding your arm)

In spite of bills
(Even though the bills just pile up by the million)
And other minor ills
(We manage to find the proper pills)
Somehow me manage to survive
(To lose the little ills, straight, that really is great)

It's great to be alive
(That girl to love you)
To have a roof above
(That roof above you
To watch the little ones arrive)
(Especially with the little ones arrivin' and all that jive)

Your own descendants
(Your descendants)
Deductable dependents
(In attendance)

It's great, it's great to be alive
We're livin', thanksgivin'
It's great to be alive