Beautiful Land Lyrics

Traditional Black is the color of my true love's hair His face so soft and wondrous fair The purest eyes And the strongest hands I love the ground on where he stands I love the g...Read Full Lyrics

(1947) Gian Carlo Menotti The sun is falling and it lies in blood The moon is weaving bandages of gold Old Black Swan where oh where is my lover now Where oh where is my lover now...Read Full Lyrics

Herbert Sacker, Nina Simone Why you wanna fly Blackbird you ain't ever gonna fly No place bif enough for holding all the tears you're gonna cry Cos your mama's name was lonely and...Read Full Lyrics

Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop Let me cry, let me sigh When I'm blue Let me go way from this lonely town Won't be long for my song Will be thru Cause I know I'm on my last go-round ...Read Full Lyrics

Irving Berlin Blue skies smiling at me Nothing but blue skies do I see Bluebirds singing the song Nothing but bluebirds all day long I never saw the sun shining so bright Never ...Read Full Lyrics

Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone Hey Lordy mama I heard you wasn't feeling' good They're spreadin' dirty rumors All around the neighborhood They say you're mean and evil And don't know ...Read Full Lyrics

Break down and let it all out Break down and let it all out I've held back my tears Just as long as I could But now my eyes can see It's all over for you and me And holding back a...Read Full Lyrics

Fletcher Henderson, Dixon Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go, singing low, Bye-bye Blackbird. Where somebody waits for me, sugar's sweet, so is she, Bye-bye Blackbird. No one...Read Full Lyrics

Andy Stroud Buck You're a whole lot a man Just take a look At your great big hands You know you can crush Poor me in two But gentle, oh so gentle Are the things you do I say I ne...Read Full Lyrics

H. Krasnow, B. Lovelock Going where the willows weep no more, darlin' baby, Going where the willows weep no more, Chilly winds don't blow along my shore, oh baby, Where the chilly...Read Full Lyrics