Re: Way OT: Need help with a Song Title..not even country, either...

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:09:49 -0500
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Gosh! With just those few words, we are given the entire song!! THANK YOU!
NOW!! Would someone PLEASE help me with some lyrics to a song that has been
in my 68 year old brain for days.
"Whispering winds, keep on singing, the weary ones to hurry on
home."-----etc.
I know it is old, but such a beautiful melody.
Cyberbilly seems to recall most songs, as Helen. My thanks in advance.
Izetta
"Phringus Malarkey" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
news:email-address-deleted...
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:10:19 +0800, email-address-deleted wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:34:05 -0400, "Cyberbilly"
> ><email-address-deleted> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"Phringus Malarkey" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
> >>news:email-address-deleted...
> >>>
> >>> Back a few years ago there was a real soulful hit song sung by some
> >>> foreign (Spanish?) sounding feller...
> >>>
> >>> Anyways, due to the grand enfeeblements of age and the deterioration
> >>> of the mental fabric which once I could command
> >>> (h-e-double-toothpicks!, I cain't even *suggest* to it
> >>> anymore!!)...anyways, due to all of the above (and more!) I have lost
> >>> my powers of recall where this lovely song is concerned...
> >>>
> >>> I *think* that it began with the word "She" and proceeded on until it
> >>> ended with the same word repeated a few times.
> >>>
> >>> If memory serves (as anything more than a sad, mocking cheat!)
> >>> somewhere the words say "she may be ________ a ________ or a
> >>> _________"
> >>>
> >>> Etc. and so forth and so on....
> >>>
> >>"She" recorded by Elvis Costello, possibly others too.
> >>
> >>She (tous les visages de l'amour)
> >>
> >>She
> >>May be the face I can't forget
> >>A trace of pleasure or regret
> >>May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
> >>She may be the song that summer sings
> >>May be the chill that autumn brings
> >>May be a hundred different things
> >>Within the measure of a day.
> >>
> >>She
> >>May be the beauty or the beast
> >>May be the famine or the feast
> >>May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
> >>She may be the mirror of my dreams
> >>A smile reflected in a stream
> >>She may not be what she may seem
> >>Inside her shell
> >>
> >>She who always seems so happy in a crowd
> >>Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
> >>No one's allowed to see them when they cry
> >>She may be the love that cannot hope to last
> >>May come to me from shadows of the past
> >>That I'll remember till the day I die
> >>
> >>She
> >>May be the reason I survive
> >>The why and wherefore I'm alive
> >>The one I'll care for through the rough and ready years
> >>Me I'll take her laughter and her tears
> >>And make them all my souvenirs
> >>For where she goes I've got to be
> >>The meaning of my life is
> >>
> >>She, she, she
> >>
> >>-Cyberbilly
> >>www.cyberbilly.net
> >>
> >That was my first thought too! I think the version you're
> >remembering, Phringus, was recorded by Charles Aznavour. It was
> >pretty big here in the mid-70s.
> >
> >CJ (showing her age :-) )
>
> And right you are, CJ (not about showing your age, but about the
> song!) :)
>
> Thank you!!
>
> ...P.