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These foolish things
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'A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces..' A classic jazz-era song arranged for solo acoustic guitar and voice.
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #22
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey, Harry Link
Rights
Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey, Harry Link
Uploaded
October 28, 2018
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.9 MB • 128 kbps • 7:32
Story behind the song
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" is a standard with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Jack Strachey, both Englishmen. Harry Link, an American, sometimes appears as a co-writer; his input is probably limited to an alternative "middle eight" (bridge) which many performers prefer.
Lyrics
Oh will you never let me be? Oh will you never set me free? The ties that bound us are still around us There’s no escape that I can see And still those little things remain that bring us happiness or pain A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces An airline ticket to romantic places And still my heart has wings These foolish things remind me of you A tinkling piano in the next apartment Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant A fairground's painted swings These foolish things remind me of you You came, you saw, you conquered me When you did that to me, I somehow knew that this had to be The winds of March that make my heart a dancer A telephone that rings - but who’s to answer? Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you Gardenia perfume lingering on a pillow Wild strawberries only seven francs a kilo And still my heart has wings These foolish things remind me of you The park at evening when the bell has sounded The Isle de France with all the girls around it The beauty that is spring These foolish things remind me of you I know that this was bound to be All these things have haunted me, for you’ve entirely enchanted me The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations Silk stockings thrown aside as invitations Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you First daffodils and long excited cables And candlelight on little corner tables And still my heart has wings These foolish things remind me of you The smile of Garbo and the scent of roses The waiters whistling as the last bar closes The song that Crosby sings These foolish things remind me of you How strange, how sweet to find you still All these things are dear to me that seem to bring you so near to me The smell of burning leaves, the wail of steamers Two lovers on the street who walk like dreamers Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you
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