And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I´ll say it clear,
I´ll state my case, of which I´m certain.

I´ve lived a life that´s full.
I´ve traveled each and ev´ry highway;
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I´ve had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I´m sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

I´ve loved, I´ve laughed and cried.
I´ve had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
´No, oh no not me,
I did it my way´.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!

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Strangers in the night, exchanging glances
Wond´ring in the night, what were the chances
We´d be sharing love before the night was through
Something in your eyes was so inviting
Something in your smile was so exciting
Something in my heart told me I must have you

Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello, little did we know
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away
And ever since that night, we´ve been together
Lovers at first sight, in love forever
It turned out so right for strangers in the night

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Start spreading the news,
I´m leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes,
They are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I want to wake up in a city,
That doesn´t sleep
And find I´m king of the hill
Top of the heap

These little town blues,
Are melting away
I´m gonna make a brand new start of it
In old New York

If I can make it there,
I´ll make it anywhere
It´s up to you
New York, New York

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Verse:
My story is much to sad to be told
But practically everything leaves me totally cold
The only exception I know is the case
When I´m out on a quiet spree, fighting vainly the old ennui
Then I suddenly turn and see
Your fabulous face

Chorus:
I get no kick from champagne
Mere alcohol doesn´t thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you

Some like the perfume from Spain
I´m sure that if I took even one sniff
It would bore me terrifically too
But I get a kick out of you

( Some like the bop-type refrain )
( I´m sure that if, I heard even one riff )
( It would bore me terrifically too )
( But I get a kick out of you )

( Some they may go for cocaine )
( I´m sure that if, I took even one sniff )
( It would bore me terrifically too )
( But I get a kick out of you )

I get a kick every time I see you standing there before me
I get a kick though it´s clear to see, you obviously do not adore me

I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high with some gal in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
But I get a kick out of you

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I know I stand in line, until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance, I know that there´s a chance
You won´t be leaving with me

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid
Like: ´I love you´

I can see it in your eyes, that you despise the same old lies
You heard the night before
And though it´s just a line to you, for me it´s true
It never seemed so right before

I practice every day to find some clever lines to say
To make the meaning come through
But then I think I´ll wait until the evening gets late
And I´m alone with you

The time is right your perfume fills my head, the stars get red
And oh the night´s so blue
And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid
Like: ´I love you´
(´I love you, I love you,...´)

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Moon River wider than a mile
I´m crossing you in style someday
All the dream makers, you heartbreaker
Wherever you´re going I´m going your way
Two drifters off to see the world
There´s such a lot of world to see
We´re after the same rainbows
And waiting round the band
My huckleberry friend, Moon River
And me

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What now my love, now that you´ve left me
How can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn to ashes
And my hopes turn to bits of clay

Once I could see, once I could feel
Now I am numb, I´ve become unreal
I walk the night, without a goal
Stripped of my heart and my soul

What now my love, now that it´s over
I feel the world falling all around me
Here come the stars, tumbling around me
There´s the sky, where that sea should be

What now my love, now that you´re gone
I´d be a fool to go on and on
No one would care, no one would cry
If I should live if I should live or die

What now my love, now there is nothing
Only my last, my last good-bye

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The summer wind, came blowin´ in - from across the sea
It lingered there, so warm and fair - to walk with me
All summer long, we sang a song - and strolled on golden sand
Two sweethearts, and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights - went flyin´ by
The world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky
Then softer than, a piper man - one day it called to you
And I lost you, to the summer wind

The autumn wind, and the winter wind - have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days - go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies - through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind

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For once in my life I´ve got someone who needs me
Someone I´ve needed so long
For once unafraid I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I´ll be strong

For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Someone warm like you
Could make my dreams come true

For once in my life I won´t let sorrow hurt me
Not like it´s hurt me before
For once I´ve got someone I know won´t desert me
And I´m not alone anymore

For once I can say: ´This is mine you can´t take it´
As long as I´ve got love I know I can make it
For once in my life I´ve got someone who needs me

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Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other

Love and marriage, love and marriage
It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary

Try, try, try to separate them
It's an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion

Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other

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Now this could only happen to a guy like me
And only happen in a town like this
And so I say to each of you most gratefully
As I throw each one of you a kiss

This is my kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of people too
People who, smile at you

And each time I roam, Chicago is
Calling me home, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town

My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of town, Chicago is
My kind of razzmatazz
And it has, all that jazz

And each time I leave, Chicago is
Tuggin' my sleeve, Chicago is
The Wrigley Building, Chicago is
The Chicago Cubbies, Chicago is
One town that won't let you down
It's my kind of town

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Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

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I´ve got you under my skin
I´ve got you deep in the heart of me
So deep in my heart, that you´re really a part of me
I´ve got you under my skin

I´ve tried so not to give in
I´ve said to myself this affair never will go so well
But why should I try to resist, when baby will I know so well
That I´ve got you under my skin

I´d sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of having you near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear

Don´t you know you fool, you never can win
Use your mentality, wake up to reality
But each time I do, just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
´Cause I´ve got you under my skin

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Out of the tree of life, I just picked me a plumb
You came along and everything started to hum
Still it´s a real good bet, the best is yet to come

The best is yet to come, and won´t that be fine
You think you´ve seen the sun, but you ain´t seen it shine

Wait till the warm-up is underway
Wait till out lips have met
Wait till you see that sunshine day
You ain´t seen nothin´ yet

The best is yet to come, and won´t that be fine
The best is yet to come, come the day that your mine

Come the day that your mine
I´m gonna teach you to fly
We´ve only tasted the wine
We´re gonna drain that cup dry

Wait till your charms are right, for the arms to surround
You think you´ve flown before, but you ain´t left the ground

Wait till you´re locked in my embrace
Wait till I hold you near
Wait till you see that sunshine place
There ain´t nothin´ like it here

The best is yet to come, and won´t that be fine
The best is yet to come, come the day that your mine

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When I was seventeen, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We´d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stairs
With perfumed hair
That came undone
When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We´d ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days are short, I´m in the autumn of my years
And I think of my life as vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year

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Come fly with me, let´s fly let´s fly away
If you can use, some exotic booze
There´s a bar in far Bombay
Come fly with me, we´ll fly we´ll fly away

Come fly with me, let´s float down to Peru
In lama land, there´s a one man band
And he´ll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, we´ll float down in the blue

Once I get you up there, where the air is rarefied
We´ll just glide, starry eyed
Once I get you up there, I´ll be holding you so near
You may here, angels cheer - because were together

Weather wise it´s such a lovely day
You just say the words, and we´ll beat the birds
Down to Acapulco Bay
It´s perfect, for a flying honeymoon - they say
Come fly with me, we´ll fly we´ll fly away

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That´s life, that´s what people say.
You´re riding´ high in April,
Shot down in May.
But I know I´m gonna change that tune,
When I´m back on top in June.

That´s life, funny as it seems.
Some people get their kicks,
Steppin´ on dreams;
But I don´t let it get me down,
´Cause this ol´ word keeps getting around.

I´ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I´ve been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.

That´s life, I can´t deny it,
I thought of quitting,
But my heart just won´t buy it.
If I didn´t think it was worth a try,
I´d roll myself up in a big ball and die.

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Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ah

When she walks, she´s like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gentle
That when she passes, each one she passes goes - ooh

(Ooh) But I watch her so sadly
How can I tell her I love her
Yes I would give my heart gladly
But each day, when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at me

Tall, (and) tan, (and) young, (and) lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, I smile - but she doesn´t see (doesn´t see)
(She just doesn´t see, she never sees me,...)

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She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight
She loves the theater, but doesn´t come late
She´d never bother, with people she´d hate
That´s why the lady is a tramp

Doesn´t like crap games, with barons and earls
Won´t go to Harlem, in ermine and pearls
Won´t dish the dirt, with the rest of those girls
That´s why the lady is a tramp

She loves the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She´s broke, but it´s o´k
She hates California, it´s cold and it´s damp
That´s why the lady is a tramp

Doesn´t like dice games, with sharpies and frauds
Won´t go to Harlem, in Lincolns or Fords
Won´t dish the dirt, with the rest of those broads
That´s why the lady is a tramp

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Now the south side of Chicago
Is (It´s) the baddest part of town
And if you (you´re gonna) go down there, you better (just) beware
Of a man (cat) named Leroy Brown

Now Leroy (Brown) he´s trouble
And he stands about six feet four
All the downtown ladies call him: ´treetop lover´
The studs they call him: ´Sir´

(Yeah) He´s bad, bad Leroy Brown
Meanest (baddest) man (cat) in the whole damn town
Badder that old King Kong
(And( (He´s) Meaner that a junkyard dog

Now Leroy he´s a gambler
And he likes (digs) his (those) fancy clothes
He likes to wave his (that) (great big / big fat) (shinny) diamond ring(s)
Under (In front of) everybody´s nose

He´s got a custom Continental
He´s got an Eldorado too
He´s got a 22 (32) gun in his pocket for fun
He´s got a razor in his (the razor in the) shoe

(Yeah) He´s bad, bad Leroy Brown
Meanest (baddest) man (cat) in the whole damn town
Badder that old King Kong
(And( (He´s) Meaner that a junkyard dog

Now Friday - ´bout a week ago
Leroy shootin´ dice
And at the end (edge) of the bar, sat (was) a lady (chick) named Dorris
(Morris)
Man she sure looked nice

And (Well/Then) he layed his eyes upon her
That´s when the big scene (trouble soon) began
And Leroy Brown he learned a lesson ´bout messin´
With the wife of a jealous man

(Yeah) He´s bad, bad Leroy Brown
Meanest (baddest) man (cat) in the whole damn town
Badder that old King Kong
(And) (He´s) Meaner that a junkyard dog

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Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear
And he shows ´em, pearly white
Just a jack knife has Macheath dear
And he keeps it way out of sight

When that shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows begin to spread
Fancy gloves though has Macheath dear
So there´s never, never a trace of red

On the sidewalk, one Sunday morning
Lies a body, oozin´ life
Someone´s sneaking ´round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife

From a tugboat, on the river going slow
A cement bag is dropping on down
You know that cement is for the weight dear
You can make a large bet Mackie´s back in town

My man Louis Miller, he split the scene babe
After drawing out all the bread from his stash
Now Macheath spends like a sailor
Do you suppose our boy, he´s done something rash

Old Satchmo, Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darrin
Did this song nice, Lady Ella too
They all sang it, with so much feeling
That Old Blue Eyes, he ain´t gonna add nothing new

But with this big band, jumping behind me
Swinging hard, Jack, I now I can´t lose
When I tell you, all about Mack the Knife babe
It´s an offer, you can never refuse

We got Patrick Williams, Bill Miller playing that piano
And this great big band, bringing up the rear
All the band cats, in this band now
They make the greatest sounds, you´re ever gonna hear

Oh Sookie Taudry, Jenny Diver, Polly Peachum, Old Miss Lulu Brown

Hey the line forms, on the right dear
Now that Macheath´s back in town
You´d better lock your doors, and call the law
Because Macheath´s back in town

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I have been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I´m happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love´s been good to me

There was a girl in Denver
Before the summer storm
Oh, her eyes were tender
Oh, her arms were warm
And she could smile away the thunder
Kiss away the rain
Even though she´s gone away
You won´t hear me complain

I have been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I´m happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love´s been good to me

There was a girl in Portland
Before the winter chill
We used to go a-courtin´
Along October hill
And she could laugh away the dark clouds
Cry away the snow
It seems like only yesterday
As down the road I go

I´ve been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I´m happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love´s been good to me

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