Angel Eyes

This song now is ah, the, usual saloon song

We do in every performance

And there are many of them, for instance "Rainy Days" is a saloon song

"One For My Baby" is a good saloon song

And they used to be called torch songs years ago, when I was a boy

I don't think I was ever a boy

I know I wasn't a girl

No, but they really did in the old days, they called 'em torch songs

And then of course we modern days, we call them saloon songs

Because we called every place that sells whiskey a saloon

This is a saloon. It's big, but it's a saloon

This one was written by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis

And with a pretty arrangement by Nelson Riddle, this is it

You know that uh, these kind of songs are quite sad

And they tell the story of a poor soul who's left alone in his room

His chick has flipped and flew the coop

Gone man, gone

And uh, he's in trouble because he's got not much left to drink

He's pretty bummed as it is

Worse than that he's got a half ounce of grass and no paper and no matches

Ain't that a bitch? That's heavy man

Anyway he, uh, he sits there for a couple of days

As a lost soul, and one morning at about one thirty or two o'clock in the morning

He decides he's gonna go out among the rest of us

To see if he can make it, make it back into the mainstream

And he doesn't quite make it, he's just looking for somebody to talk to

So you're it

Drink up all of you people

Order anything that you see

And have fun you happy people

The drink and the laugh's on me

I try to think that love's not around

Still it's uncomfortably near

My poor old heart, it ain't gaining any ground

Because my angel eyes, she ain't here

Angel eyes that old Devil sent

They glow unbearably bright

And need I say that my love's been misspent?

Misspent with angel eyes tonight

Drink up, drink up all of you people

Order anything that you see

And have fun, have lots of fun, all you happy people

The drink and the laughs are on me

Pardon me but I gotta run

The fact's uncommonly clear

I'd like to find who's now the number one

And why my angel eyes, she ain't here

'Scuse me while I