彼女のアルバムには Tierney Sutton 名義のものと Tierney Sutton Band 名義のものがあります。 他にはゲスト参加したアルバムもあります。
Tierney Sutton Band はかれこれ20年以上も活動を続けています。 Christian Jacob (p), Trey Henry and Kevin Axt (b), Ray Brinker (ds) の4人のメンバーはそれぞれの楽器巧者であり、彼らの手による編曲と演奏がティアニー・サットンを支えてきています。 (ベーシストが二人いますが、実際の録音やライブでどのように役割分担をしているかは、調べられていません)
Tierney Sutton Band 名義ではなく、Tierney Sutton 名義のアルバムに Tierney Sutton Band のメンバーが参加しているものもあります。
#93 - The Tierney Sutton Band – Screen Play / BFM Jazz / 2018 #78 - Tierney Sutton – Paris Sessions / BFM Jazz / 2012 #63 - The Tierney Sutton Band – American Road / BFM Jazz / 2011 #49 - Tierney Sutton Band – Desire / Telarc / 2008 #31 - Tierney Sutton – I'm With The Band / TELARC / 2005 #19 - Tierney Sutton – Unsung Heroes / Telarc / 2000 #2 - Tierney Sutton – Introducing Tierney Sutton / A-Records / 1995, 1996 #1 - Clint Eastwood, Christian Jacob And The Tierney Sutton Band – Sully (Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture) / Varèse Sarabande Records / 2016
********************************************************* reserved (By released year) ********************************************************* 【】内は、これまで取り上げたトピックです
Blue In Green (2001) 【ビル・エヴァンス・ソングブック】 Something Cool (2002) 【ジューン・クリスティ ソングブック】 Buddy Childers Big Band Featuring Tierney Sutton – It's Whats Happening Now (2003) Dancing In The Dark (2004)【フランク・シナトラ・ソングブック】 Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra With Ann Hampton Callaway, Tony DeSare, King's Singers, John Pizzarelli, Tierney Sutton – Christmastime Is Here (2006) On The Other Side (2007) (Tierney Sutton Band)【しあわせは歩いてこない だから歩いてゆくんだね】 The SSJ All-Stars, Alan Broadbent, Jim Cox, Gerard Hagen, Johnny Holiday, Diane Hubka, Christian Jacob, Leslie Lewis, Sam Most, Dick Noel, Frankie Randall, Sue Raney, Kurt Reichenbach, Dan Sawyer, Tierney Sutton, Pinky Winters, Chris Connor – From California With Love (2011) After Blue (2013)【ジョニ・ミッチェル ソングブック】 Patrick Williams Featuring Patti Austin • Frank Sinatra Jr. • Tierney Sutton • Dave Grusin • Tom Scott • Arturo Sandoval • Peter Erskine – Home Suite Home (2015) The Sting Variations (2016) (Tierney Sutton Band)【スティング ソングブック】 Screen Play (2019) (Tierney Sutton Band) Paris Sessions 2 (2022) Good People (2024) Tierney Sutton / Talking To The Sun (2025)
"All For One" (Speak No Evil) (Wayne Shorter/Vanessa Rubin/1964) - (#26) "All Too Soon" (Duke Ellington/Carl Sigman/1940) - (#86) "Amazing Grace" (John Newton, [Traditional] ) - (#67) "America The Beautiful" (Samuel Augustus Ward/Katharine Lee Bates/1910) - (#76) "Answer Me, My Love" (Gerhard Winkler/Fred Rauch,Carl Sigman/1953) - (#91) "Asma" (Serge Merlaud/2012) - (#87) "Beija-flor" (Nelson Cavaquinho, Noel Silva, Augusto Tomás Jr./1968) - (#82) "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller/Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller/1952) - (#23) "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler/1931) - (#35) "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin/1926) - (#42) ”Body & Soul" (Johnny Green/Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, Robert Sour/1930) - (#88) "Calling You" (Bob Telson/1987) - (#95) "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol/Irving Mills/1936) - (#8) "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin/1935) - (#41) "Cool" (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim/1957) - (#74) "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton/1953) - (#57) "Devil May Care" (Bob Dorough, Terrell Kirk/1955) - (#47) "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Jule Styne/Leo Robin. Carol Channing/1949) - (#102) "Don't Go to Strangers" (Arthur Kent, David Mann/Redd Evans/1954) - (#81) "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom/Ted Koehler/1939) - (#90) "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker/1947) - (#27) "Early Autumn" (Ralph Burns,Woody Herman/Johnny Mercer/1949) - (#21) "East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)" (Brooks Bowman/1935) - (#37) "The Eagle and Me" (Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg/1944) - (#72) "Estate" (Bruno Martino/Bruno Brighetti, Joel E. Siegel/1960) - (#85) "Ev'ry Now And Then" (Dave Grusin/Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman/1996) - (#106) "Fever" (Eddie Cooley / John Davenport (Otis Blackwell)/1956) - (#54) "Footprints (Follow The Footprints)" (Wayne Shorter/Chris Caswell/1967) - (#15) "Goodbye for Now" (Stephen Sondheim/1981) - (#101) "Heart's Desire" (Alan Broadbent/Dave Frishberg/1991) - (#59) "High Wire" (Chick Corea/Tony Cohan/1979) - (#12) "Hopelessly Devoted To You" (John Farrar/1978) - (#103) "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (Michel Legrand/Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman/1982) - (#105) "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter/1934) - (#43) "If I Loved You" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/1945) - (#39) "If I Only Had A Brain" (Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg/1939) - (#99) "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser/1950) - (#16) I'm A Fool To Want You (Joel Herron/ Frank Sinatra & Jack Wolf/1951) - (#14) "I've Got No Strings" (Leigh Harline/Ned Washington/1940) - (#98) "I've Never Been In Love Before" (Frank Loesser/1950) - (#9) "Ilm" (Serge Merlaud/2014) - (#80) "In Love in Vain" (Jerome Kern/Leo Robin/1945) - (#6) "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" (David Mann/Bob Hilliard/1955) - (#17) "Indiana" (James F. Hanley/Ballard MacDonald/1917) - (#27) "It ain't necessarily so" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1935) - (#68) "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/1940) - (#7) "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter/1953) - (#55) "It's Only A Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg & Billy Rose/1933) - (#50) "Izaat" (Serge Merlaud/2012) - (#89) "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown/Jon Hendricks/1955) - (#25) "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/1937) - (#44) "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin/1936) - (#33) "Long Daddy Green" (Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg/1970) - (#52) "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn/1928) - (#58) "Moon River" (Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer/1960) - (#95) "Morning Sun" (S.Hiltzik/????) - (#10) "My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/1959) - (#15) "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter/1938) - (#51) "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart) 作曲年 1927 - (#11) "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/1935) - (#70) "The Old Country" (Nat Adderley/Curtis Reginald Lewis/1960) - (#3) "On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/1965) - (#96) "On Broadway" (Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)/1963) - (#66) "On My Way To You" (Michel Legrand/Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand/ 1988) - (#46) "The Peacocks (A Timeless Place)" (Jimmy Rowles/Norma Winstone/1975) - (#22) "People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/1943) - (#38) "Remember Me (Recordame)" (Joe Henderson/Kelley Johnson/1963) - (#20) "Shenandoah" (Traditional) - (#65) "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer/1941) - (#61) "Somewhere" ( "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us") (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim/1957) - (#73) "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim/1957) - (#74) "The Sound Of Silence" (Paul Simon/1964) - (#100) "Summertime" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/1935) - (#69) "The Surrey with the Fringe On Top" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/1943) - (#40) "S'wonderful" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#34) "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II/1928) - (#32) "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II/1932 - (#5) "Spring Is Here" (Richard Lodgers/Lorenz Hart/1938) - (#24) Sully's Theme (Christian Jacob/Tierney Sutton/2016) - (#1) "Tenderly" (Walter Gross/Jack Lawrence/1946) - (#71) "Then I'll Be Tired Of You" (Arthur Schwartz/E.Y. Harburg/1934) - (#56) "Two For The Road" (Henry Mancini/Leslie Bricusse/1967) - (#36) "The Water Is Wide" (Traditional) - (#65) "Wayfaring Stranger" (Traditional/1700s) - (#64) "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods/1934) - (#45) "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Michel Legrand/Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman/1969 - (#97) "Whatever Lola Wants" (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross/1955) - (#60) "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter/Spencer Williams/1936) - (#28) "The Windmills Of Your Mind (Les Moulins De Mon Coeur)" (Michel Legrand/Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman/1968) - (#94) "You must believe in spring" (Michel Legrand/Jacques Demy, Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman/1967) - (#79) "You're Nearer" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/1940) - (#4, 83) "You're the One That I Want" (John Farrar/1978) - (#104)
作曲: Leonard Bernstein
作詞: Stephen Sondheim
作曲年 1957
この曲も >>[73] と同じくWest Side Story で使われました。
"Something's Coming"
[TONY]
Could be...
Who knows?...
There's something due any day
I will know right away
Soon as it shows
It may come cannonballing down through the sky
Gleam in its eye
Bright as a rose
Who knows?
It's only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Under a tree
I got a feeling there's a miracle due
Gonna come true
Comin' to me!
Could it be? Yes, it could
Something's comin', something good
If I can wait!
Something's comin', I don't know what it is
But it is
Gonna be great!
With a click, with a shock
Phone'll jingle, door'll knock
Open the latch
Something’s comin', don't know when, but it's soon
Catch the moon
One-handed catch!
Around the corner
Or whistlin' down the river
Come on, deliver
To me!
Will it be? Yes, it will
Maybe just by holdin' still
It'll be there
Come on, something, come on in, don't be shy
Meet a guy
Pull up a chair!
The air
Is hummin'
And something great is comin'!
Who knows?
It's only just out of reach
Down the block, on a beach
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight
Maybe tonight
[ICE, spoken]
You wanna live in this lousy world?
Play it cool
[ACTION, spoken]
I wanna get even!
[ICE, spoken]
Get cool!
[A-RAB, spoken]
I wanna bust!
[ICE, spoken]
Bust cool!
[ACTION, spoken]
I wanna go!
[ICE, spoken]
Go cool!
[ICE]
Boy, boy, crazy boy
Get cool, boy!
Got a rocket, in your pocket
Keep coolly cool, boy!
Don’t get hot
‘Cause man, you've got
Some high times ahead
Take it slow and, Daddy-o
You can live it up and die in bed!
Boy, boy, crazy boy
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it
Turn off the juice, boy!
Go man, go
But not like a yo-yo school boy
Just play it cool, boy
Real cool!
[ICE, spoken]
Easy Action!
Cool it A-Rab, cool it, cool it!
[GIRLS]
Cool!
[SOME JETS]
Go!
[OTHER JETS]
Crazy!
[GIRLS]
Cool!
[SOME JETS]
Go!
[OTHER JETS]
Crazy!
[SOME JETS]
Go!
[JETS]
Boy, boy, crazy boy
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it
Turn off the juice, boy!
Recorded at Studio Val d'Orge, Epinay Sur Orge, France - December 10 & 11, 2012
1. You Must Believe In Spring
2. Ilm
3. Don't Go To Strangers
4. Beija-Flor
5. You're Nearer
6. Estate
7. All Too Soon
8. Asma
9. Body And Soul
10. Izaat
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. Answer Me, My Love
Musicians:
Tierney Sutton (vo)
Kevin Axt (b)
Serge Merlaud (g)
ライナーノーツにはティアニー・サットンの言葉で次のようにあります。
孤独な気持ちが心の草原を冷やすとき、冬が来れば春も遠からずとただ思え。深い雪の下で、薔薇の秘め事はただ一つ、春を信じねばならぬと知っていること…
アラン&マリリン・バーグマンがミシェル・ルグランの作曲「春を信じねばならぬ」に綴った歌詞は、私にとって希望の賛歌となった。1992年、私はパリにいた。ビリー・ストレイホーンがかつて示唆したように「パリでの一週間が、その痛みを和らげてくれるだろう」と願って。この旅で、音楽の同志でありパリのギタリスト、セルジュ・メルローがビル・エヴァンスの1977年アルバム『パリで一週間』を私に紹介してくれた。この録音は、その後長年にわたり、ティアニー・サットン・バンドのサウンドとレパートリーに多大な影響を与えたものの、私はこの曲を録音したことは一度もありませんでした。
20年後の2012年6月、私のバンドはパリのDuc Des Lombardsで演奏することになりました。ショーの合間にクラブで流れていた音楽が、ビル・エヴァンスの「You Must Believe In Spring」だったことは、おそらく驚くべきことではなかったでしょう。またもや、パリでこの曲に出会ったのです。この頃には、マリリンとアランは親しい友人となり、彼らはミシェル・ル・グランを私たちのショーに招待してくれました。私は大興奮でした!このパリへの旅は、私の人生に再び希望を取り戻させてくれたのです。
その秋、私は TSB のベーシスト、ケヴィン・アクストにセルジュ・メルローの録音の一部を聴かせました。私と同じように、彼もセルジュの演奏と作曲の美しさと叙情性に感銘を受けました。ケヴィンと私は、12月にフランスに戻って彼と一緒にレコーディングをすることに決めました。その頃、私は2013年にリリースした偉大なジョニ・ミッチェルへのトリビュートアルバム「After Blue」の計画に没頭していました。「After Blue」にはいくつかのスタンダード曲も収録したいと思っていたので、パリで録音した2曲は、そのプロジェクトの一部となりました。
私は、精神、芸術、美、そして優しさといったものは、直線的な時間と空間の外の世界で生き、繁栄していると信じるようになりました。セルジュ、ケヴィン、そして私がここで作り上げた音楽が、その優しさと光に満ちた世界の一部を、他の誰かに届けてくれることを願っています。
「...だから、雪の世界で、物事が移ろいゆく世界で、
自分が知っていると思うことも確信が持てない世界で、
春と愛を信じなければならないのだ。」
[Verse 1]
Build your dreams to the stars above
But when you need someone true to love
Don't go to strangers, darling, come on to me
[Verse 2]
Play with fire 'til your fingers burn
And when there's no place for you to turn
Don't go to strangers, darling, come on to me
[Bridge]
For when you hear a call to follow your heart
You follow your heart, I know
I've been through it all and I'm an old hand
And I'll understand if you go
[Verse 3]
So make your mark for your friends to see
But when you need more than company
Don't go to strangers, come on to me
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
Make your mark for your friends to see
But when you need more than company
Don't go to strangers, darling, come on to me
MPB4(Música popular brasileira 4の略)は、1965年にリオデジャネイロ州ニテロイで結成され、以来活動を続けているブラジルのボーカル&インストゥルメンタル・グループです。グループの主なジャンルはサンバとMPBで、ブラジルで最高のボーカル・パフォーマンス・グループの一つとされています。Quarteto em Cy、Toquinho、Chico Buarqueらと頻繁にコラボレーションしています。2001年、MPB-4は同グループでの36年間のキャリアに幕を閉じました(ブラジル版ギネスブックに登録)。
[Verse 1]
Answer me, oh, my love
Just what sin have I been guilty of?
Tell me how I came to lose your love
Please answer me, sweetheart
You were mine yesterday
I believed that love was here to stay
Won't you tell me where I've gone astray
Please answer me, my love
[Bridge]
If you're happier without me
I'll try not to care
But if you still think about me
Please listen to my prayer
[Verse 2]
You must know I've been true
Won't you say that we can start anew
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please answer me, my love
[Bridge]
If you're happier without me
I'll try not to care
But if you still think about me
[Outro]
You must know I've been true
Won't you say that we can start anew
In my sorrow now I turn to you
Please answer me, my love
Answer me, my love
Recorded in June of 2018, (Track 4, 9, 13 on March 10, 2018)
1. The Windmills Of Your Mind
2. Moon River/Calling You
3. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
4. What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life?
5. I've Got No Strings
6. If I Only Had A Brain
7. The Sound Of Silence
8. Goodbye For Now
9. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
10. Hopelessly Devoted To You
11. You're The One That I Want
12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
13. Ev'ry Now And Then
14. It Might Be You
15. Arrow
Musicians:
Tierney Sutton (vo)
Christian Jacob (p)
Kevin Axt (b)
Tray Henry (b)
Ray Brinker (ds, percussion)
Special Guests
Serge Merlaud (g, 5, 12 14)
Alan Bergman (vo 12)
このアルバムは The Tierney Sutton Band 名義のアルバムになります。
また、アルバムタイトルが Screen Play とありますように、映画音楽に使われた曲を演奏しています。
みなさんがご覧になった映画もあるでしょうし、それらを思い出しながら聴くのも楽しみになるでしょう。
"Moon River"
作曲: Henry Mancini
作詞: Johnny Mercer
作曲年 1960
Breakfast at Tiffany's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(film)
曲情報については【ジョニー・マーサー ソングブック】#12 をご覧ください。
https://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?comm_id=6028752&page=1&id=78960498
"Calling You"
作曲・作詞: Bob Telson
作曲年: 1987
Bagdad Cafe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad_Cafe
この映画もヒットした作品ではないでしょうか。
"Calling You"
[Verse 1]
A desert road from Vegas to nowhere
Some place better than where you've been
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
In a little café just around the bend
[Chorus]
I am calling you
Can't you hear me?
I am calling you
[Verse 2]
A hot dry wind blows right through me
The baby's crying and I can't sleep
But we both know a change is coming
Coming closer sweet release
[Chorus]
I am calling you
I know you hear me
I am calling you
I am calling you
I know you hear me
I am calling you
[Verse 3]
A desert road from vegas to nowhere
Some place better than where you've been
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
In a little café just around the bend
[Verse 2]
A hot dry wind blows right through me
The baby's crying and I can't sleep
And I can feel a change is coming
Coming closer sweet release
[Chorus]
I am calling you
Can't you hear me?
I am calling you
この曲をバーブラ・ストライザンドが歌っているのですが、こんな感じになります。
Barbra Streisand – My Name Is Barbra (1965)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/master/74510-Barbra-Streisand-My-Name-Is-Barbra
元々はアーレンとハーバーグが1937年のブロードウェイミュージカル『Hooray for What!』のために「I'm Hanging On To You」というタイトルで作曲した曲だったが、最終的に同作品からは削除された。その後、二人が『オズの魔法使い』の楽曲制作を依頼された際、ハーバーグはキャッチーなメロディーに新たな歌詞をつけた。そのメロディーは、ボードビルのソフトシューダンスやサンドダンスで使われるような、シンコペーションを効かせたスコティッシュ調の曲だった。
このアルバムの中でも特に楽しいトラックです。
Kevin Axt と Tray Henry の二人のベース奏者が参加しているように聞こえるのですがいかがでしょうか。
映画の1シーンです。
I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consulting with the rain;
And my head I'd be a scratchin'
While my thoughts are busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain
I'd unravel ev'ry riddle for my
Individdle
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts that you'll be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain
Oh, I, could tell you why
The oceans near the shore
I could think of things I'd never
Thunk before
And then I'd sit down and think some more
I would not be just a muffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain;
And perhaps I'd deserve you and be
Even worthy even you
If I only had a brain
実は、この映画には続編があって、主演はニコラス・ケイジに代わるのですが、更に上記の孫と関係を持つ「親子孫丼」を描いた映画がありました─『迷い婚 -すべての迷える女性たちへ-』(原題: Rumor Has It...)(2005) だったと思います。
Christian Jacob (p) が光っています。
サイモンとガーファンクルの音源です。
[Verse 1]
Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
[Verse 2]
In restless dreams, I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
[Verse 3]
And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
[Verse 4]
"Fools," said I, "You do not know
Silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
[Verse 5]
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
[Verse]
Yes, I know:
Goodbye for now
How long, a year, a day?
Yes, I love you
Yes, you're with me
Here, now, next to me
And worlds away
See, I free you—
And I’ll see you when I see you
Fine, okay
Goodbye for now, again
Goodbye until whenever, then
We're free
That's what we said we’d be
At leave to come and go
You as well as I
Somehow, each hello
Makes it worth goodbye...
For now
作曲: Jule Styne
作詞: Leo Robin. Carol Channing
作曲年 1949
この曲はミュージカル(舞台)Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)で使われました。
その後1953年に映画化されました。
主演は Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe です。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)
Emmet Cohen & Tierney Sutton ライブ動画
映画の1シーンです
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped these rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Tiffany's
Cartier
Black, Starr, Frost, Gorham
Talk to me Harry Winston, tell me all about it!
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice but get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets if little fetes get big baguettes
Time rolls on and youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees
You stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds, diamonds, I don't mean rhinestones!
But diamonds are a girl's best, best friend
[Verse 1]
Guess mine is not the first heart broken
My eyes are not the first to cry
I'm not the first to know
There's just no getting over you
You know, I'm just a fool who's willing
To sit around and wait for you
But baby, can't you see
There's nothing else for me to do?
I'm hopelessly devoted to you
[Chorus]
But now there's nowhere to hide
Since you pushed my love aside
I'm out of my head
Hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
[Verse 2]
My head is saying, "Fool, forget him"
My heart is saying, "Don't let go
Hold on 'til the end"
And that's what I intend to do
I'm hopelessly devoted to you
[Chorus]
But now there's nowhere to hide
Since you pushed my love aside
I'm out of my head
Hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you