When The World Was Young-Anita O'Day/The Three Sounds

[ti:When The World Was Young] [ar:Anita O'Day] [al:Verve Jazz Masters 49] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When The World Was Young - Anita O'Day/The Three Sounds [00:00.45]It isn't by chance I happen to be [00:06.68]A boulevard deer the toast of Paris [00:10.84]For over the noise the talk and the smoke [00:14.82]I'm good for a laugh a drink or a joke [00:19.82]I walk in a room a party or ball [00:24.29]Come sit over here somebody will call [00:29.22]A drink for Monsieur a drink for us all [00:34.89]But how many times I stop and recall [00:43.31]Ah the apple trees [00:48.28]Blossoms in the breeze [00:52.96]That we walked among [01:00.01]Lying in the hay [01:04.71]Games we used to play [01:09.59]While the rounds were sung [01:14.74]Only yesterday [01:19.52]When the world was young [01:25.48]Wherever I go they mention my name [01:29.36]And that in itself is some sort of fame [01:33.37]Come by for a drink we're having a game [01:37.13]Wherever I go I'm glad that I came [01:42.44]The talk is quite gay the company fine [01:47.20]There's laughter and lights and glamour and wine [01:52.11]And handsome young man and some of them mine [01:59.21]But often my eyes see a different shine [02:08.32]Ah the apple trees [02:15.93]Sun lit memories [02:21.78]Where the hammock swung [02:29.82]On our backs we'd lie [02:35.24]Looking at the sky [02:40.99]'Til the stars were strung [02:46.95]Only last July [02:52.37]When the world was young [02:57.97]Just dream ago [03:03.82]When the world was young