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Posted by Bill's News on 07/05/06 15:00
Frank R.A.J. Maloney wrote:
> Howard Brazee wrote:
>> On 4 Jul 2006 11:38:29 -0700, "Dave in Toronto"
>> <dmatthews03@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm very fond of the 1945 "State Fair" as well - Another
>>> very
>>> pleasant song from it is "That's for Me" which became sort
>>> of a
>>> standard. If you haven't already heard it you should try and
>>> catch
>>> Louis Armstrong's version of it.
>>
>> It's funny trying to write a love song that occurs in a State
>> Fair
>> when love is supposed to happen in Spring time!
>
> I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I'm as jumpy as
> puppet on
> a string
> I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring.
>
> I am starry eyed and vaguely discontented, Like a nightingale
> without
> a song to sing
> O why should I have spring fever, when it isn't even spring.
>
> I keep wishing I were someone else, walking down a strange new
> street
> And hearing words that I've never heard from a girl I've yet
> to meet.
>
This particular line sounds like the plaint of many a man
contemplating a change in his relationship state! In this
context, the whole lyric is somewhat like having gotten the
message from Paul Simon's "50 ways ..." His name is Stan and
he's made a new plan ;-0)
> I'm as busy as spider spinning daydreams, spinning spinning
> daydreams
> I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing.
>
> I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing,
> But I feel so gay in a melancholy way, that it might as well
> be
> spring, It might as well be spring.
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