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- The Ink Spots
with Billy Kenny.
So let's hear it out
there. The Ink Spots!
(audience applauding)
(lively band music)
(gentle band music)
♪ Mmm ♪
♪ With my eyes wide open ♪
♪ I'm dreaming ♪
♪ Can it be true
I'm holding you ♪
♪ Close to my heart ♪
♪ With my eyes wide open ♪
♪ I'm dreaming ♪
♪ You're with me
now sharing a vow ♪
♪ Never to part ♪
♪ I'm so afraid
to close my eyes ♪
♪ Afraid that I'll find ♪
♪ This lovely thrill is just ♪
♪ A silly illusion ♪
♪ With my eyes wide open ♪
♪ I'm dreaming ♪
♪ Do I deserve such a break ♪
♪ Pinch me to prove I'm awake ♪
♪ I can't believe ♪
♪ That you're really mine ♪
(Bill vocalizing)
- ♪ You know one
thing, honey child? ♪
♪ I'm afraid to close my eyes ♪
♪ Afraid that I'll find ♪
♪ That this lovely thrill
we're having is nothing but ♪
♪ Just a silly illusion ♪
♪ With my eyes wide open ♪
♪ I'm dreaming ♪
♪ Do I deserve such a break ♪
♪ Pinch me to prove I'm awake ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't believe ♪
♪ That you're really ♪
♪ Mine ♪
(audience applauding)
- We thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.
This next song tells an awful
lot, an old favorite of ours.
"If You Had to Hurt Someone,
Why Did It Have to Be Me?"
(gentle band music)
Incidentally, the second chorus
features the personality
of Butterball.
(chuckling)
♪ If you had to hurt someone ♪
♪ Why did it have to be me ♪
♪ If you had to fool someone ♪
♪ Did you have to fool me ♪
♪ All your promises
were love lies ♪
♪ Lies you knew could never be ♪
♪ You took my heart,
you broke it ♪
♪ My love was all in vain ♪
♪ But if I did the same to you ♪
♪ You couldn't stand the pain ♪
♪ If you had to hurt someone ♪
♪ Why did it have to be me ♪
(swing music)
- ♪ If you had to hurt ♪
♪ Someone, baby ♪
- Sing it, fat stuff!
- ♪ Why did it have to be me ♪
♪ If you had to fool ♪
♪ Someone, mama ♪
♪ Why did you have to fool me ♪
♪ All your promises
were love lies ♪
- Sing it, Butterball! Sing it!
♪ Lies you knew could never be ♪
- Show your personality,
show your personality.
♪ Oh, you took my
heart, you broke it ♪
♪ My love was all in vain ♪
♪ But if I did the same to you ♪
♪ You couldn't stand the pain ♪
♪ If you had to hurt ♪
♪ Someone, mama ♪
♪ Why did it have to be me ♪
(swing music continues)
♪ You took my heart,
you broke it ♪
♪ My love was all in vain ♪
♪ But if I did the same to you ♪
♪ You couldn't stand the pain ♪
♪ If you had to hurt ♪
♪ Someone ♪
♪ Why did it have to be ♪
♪ Me ♪
(audience applauding)
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