Davis Jr., Sammy - Lush Life Lyrics
I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distant gay traces
That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clock tales
Then you came along with your siren of song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah yes! I was wrong
Again
I was wrong
Life is lonely again
And only last year everything seemed so sure
Now life is awful again
A troughful of hearts could only be a bore
A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it
I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there I'll be, while I rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too
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Davis Jr., Sammy Lush Life Comments
I’m still learning in my eighties .didn t know this prime dancer and master of comedy coukd be sad until I heard this and Speak Low who did arrangement
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Great !
I'm impressed. I used to see him on TV when I was a child, and I liked him, but now that I sing, I appreciate his genius.
gay pkaces hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Frank Sinatra turned this song down. Wouldn't it be interesting to know that maybe he thought Sammy did such a great work here that he didn't want to record this wonderful composition as well?
He didn't turn it down, he gave up on it 3 years before Sammy released this. It may be that after that, he decided to not try it again.
A very, very nice interpretation.
SAMMY was IT!!! The greatest of his TIME, for dancing, singing, laughing, charm, everything. It was great to grow up and be able to watch him on TV in real time! What a TALENT!! Unmatched in so many ways -- He certainly left Sinatra in the dust in my book as a kid.
Correction- One of the Greater of His time.
Davis is a musical genius. I myself sometime wonder if he might even be better than Frank. (Heresy, I know!) His singing here is pitch perfect, both the technical, musical sense (hard to execute well on this song) and is the broader artistic sence.
I have two quibbles. 1) The orchestration is not heavy, but the song demands an ultra-light scoring, and 2) "distant gay" instead of "distingue". Big mistake.
Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington are so intertwined that in many cases it is difficult to know who the composer is. When I said a Duke Ellington classic I really meant a classic associated with Duke Ellington ,I did not mean composed by Duke Ellington. Anyway thanks for the information.
Strays wrote this song before he met Duke, as a teenager!
When you refer to Him as "Strays" we all think you were a close friend of His.
Mr Entertainer. A Duke Ellington classic. Brilliant singing. The arrangement serves to enhances the singing.
Actually, it's a Billy Strayhorn classic, but hey, it's still great.
Enhance
Charles Barry a Billy Strayhorn classic Take the A train and many other classics. Too gay for the duke to feature him like he deserved. He wrote many songs sad. Great pianist and arranger
Such a tough song to master and he glides through it with ease.
Great talent
Sammy sings the intervals at 1,50 CORRECTLY. many singers go wrong here... Fine performance "
Like who? Link please.
He was such a little guy with a huge talent
Perfection
The fastest gun in Hollywood!