Lyric help needed
Lyric help needed
#1Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:43amI have a friend who is trying to figure out a song stuck in his brain---the only lyric he can remember is "little boy blue". He is sure it is a Broadway tune, possibly sung by Angela Lansbury, and is slow in nature.
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:47am
There's "If He Walked Into My Life" but that says Boy with the Bugle...
Maybe there's another song in Mame that references it?
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#2re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:47amIf He Walked Into My Life, from Mame, refers to 'that boy with the bugle'. Could be?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#3re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:57amheh, go us Madbrian!
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#4re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 10:59am
That's what I thought, but he says it's definitely not that song.
He hummed a bit of the melody to me, and now it's driving me nuts!
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 11:05am
Little boy lost
In search
Of little boy found
You go on wondering, wandering
Stumbling, tumbling
'Round. . . 'round. . .
When will you find
What’s on the tip of your mind
Mmm...Why are you blind
To all you ever were
Never were
Really are
Nearly are
Little boy false
In search
Of little boy true
Will you be ever done
Traveling
Always unraveling
You, . . you. . .
Running away
Could leave you farther astray
And as for fishing in streams
For pieces of dreams
Those pieces will never fit
What is the sense of it
Little boy blue
Don't let your little sheep roam
It's time come blow your horn
Meet the morn
Look and see
Can you be
Far from home...
PEACE.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:21pm
Are you thinking of a Rogers & Hart song- Little Girl Blue? IT was sometimes sung by men as "Little Boy Blue" but all the hits (and original) say "girl." Garland did it often, Nina Simone had a Jazz hit with it...I don't know of Lansbury but it's possible.
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do
Old girl you're through
Sit there, count your little fingers
Unhappy little girl blue.
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
Won't you just sit there
Count the little raindrops
Falling on you
'Cause it's time you knew
All you can ever count on
Are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#7re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:00pm
Joe - you left out the bridge:
No use, old girl
You may as well surrender
Your hopes are geting slender
You need some one to send a tender
Blue boy to cheer Little Girl Blue.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Lyric help needed
Posted: 7/24/08 at 10:17amI sure did- and I love that bridge. It's another great Hart lyric.
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