My Colouring Book:Kitty Kallen.
#18 Billboard Hot 100 and #7 Adult Contemp. on RCA
Records in 1962.
INTRO:
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For those who fancy colouring books..(lots of
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people do..) here's a new one for you.
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A most unusual colouring book..the kind you
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never see..crayons ready? very well..begin to
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colour me.
#1.
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These are the eyes that watched him as he walked
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away..colour them gray.
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This is the heart that thought he would always be
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true...........colour it blue.
BRIDGE:
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These are the arms that held him, and touched him,
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then lost him somehow...........colour them empty, now.
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These are the beads I wore until she came between.....
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colour them green.
#2.
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This is the room I sleep in, and walk in, and weep in,
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and hide in, that nobody sees.......colour it lonely,
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please.
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This is the man, whose love I depended upon..
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colour him..gone.
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A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
