Frank Sinatra - Violets For Your Furs Lyrics
It was winter in Manhattan, falling snow flakes filled the air,
The streets were covered with a film of ice,
But a little simple magic that I learned about somewhere,
Changed the weather all around, just within a thrice.
I bought you violets for your furs and it was spring for a while, remember?
The snow drifted down and the flowers, and that is where it lay.
The snow looked like dew and the blossoms as on a summer day.
I bought you violets for your furs and there was blue in the wintry sky,
You pinned my violets to your furs and gave a lift to the crowds passing by,
You smiled at me so sweetly, since then one thought occurs,
That we fell in love completely, the day I bought you violets for your furs.
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Frank Sinatra Violets For Your Furs Comments
Beautiful!
Thanks Matt Dennis!
Thank you for posting this beautiful song by my favorite artist, Frank Sinatra!! I can just picture the scene that Frankie sings about in this song! I love to sing along to it and listen to it at night when I go to sleep. So wonderful how he could find so many different melodies yet all in his
fabulous style! Awesome!! :-)
I'm in Manhattan in December between Madison and Lex...cold, crowds, lights, thrilling to be. here
Wow..he knew love
Thank you very much for putting this on !!! It just happens to be my favourite Frank Sinatra song of ALL time from the album "Songs for young young lovers" Apparently in his early years
He saw Bing Crosby as someone to inspire/ emulate and or competitively someone to "beat" (after all this song WAS in Bing's style) but Frank made it his own and superseeded Bing PS i love Frank and his heritage - it was all a struggle in those early days for any "immigrant" and Frank NAILED it The "long breath" lives long Thank You
The elegance of yesterday of Manhattan. The air was filled the scent of violets and chestnuts in the winter. How elegant is Frank's voice depicting that era.
2018.
Timeless.
When I first heard this, I was a kid--a young adolescent, and I'd always thought it was the most romantic song I'd ever heard. ("It was winter in Manhattan...") Later, at age 20, I migrated to NY, and would think of this song. and once, in the winter I fell in love, and when I thought of this song I melted with joy.
Like you I first heard this song when I was a child, thanks to my mother. I also came to the US when I was 20. It is one of Sinatra's greatest although all the others were no slouches either lol
Hey everyone, don't neglect to check out Frank's earlier rendition of this song, when he was with Tommy Dorsey. It is one of the high points of human expression, and it was one of the cuts that put Sinatra, and composer Matt Dennis, on the map.
Every opinion aside, Frank Sinatra was the greatest male vocalist of the 20th Century. How marvelous he was.
TheBrendaji check out Matt Dennis' version of this tune.
Very beautiful. The guitar in the background is the best
Great song. My husband interprets the romance depicted as one between a rich young lady who can afford to wear furs and her poorer but sincere suitor who can only afford violets as a gift. Can any elder Manhattanites confirm that vendors sold violets for a reasonable price in 1940s/1950s NYC winters?
He pays attention to every syllable and yet it never sounds contrived. In fact, it seems effortless, and for him, I guess it was. That line "and it melted where it lay" is just perfect. It reminds me of the live version of Don't Worry 'bout Me from the Sands - "Look out, look out for yoursel e e e elf should be the rule. Great stuff from the greatest interpreter of these songs.
Wrong? Certainly not, but I don't know what you mean. You wrote the same thing twice, yes, that's the line and absolutely what he sang. What I singled out was what he did with the word "melted," which followed.
Sorry, I try to explain: "down AND the flowers" is the line I found on internet and here on youtube...but I hear "down ON the flowers".
Which one is correct?
I know is a detail, but it's important to me.
Thank you for the answer =)
"And" makes no sense. It's "The snow drifted down on the flowers." Now, speaking of not making sense, there's a version on here of "Too Marvelous for Words" (where he's in exceptionally good voice, live TV), and he sings "Too Marvelous to Words." No sense, but oh so clear.
Thank you
That is exactly what sold me with Sinatra, GREAT!!
What a lovely song. I love the sound of sleigh bells in winter in Manhattan.
just beautiful!! love it. xoxo
Renzo Cesana's version was MUCH better.
Hah, good one. Renzo's version definitely is funnier
No offense, but I love Billie Holidays rendition more!
@Michael Zeroogian No offense take, on the contrary. Billie's voice was nearly shot--very late Billie--but (as someone else noted) because she had no voice to speak of, all she had was raw, heartfelt poignancy. Lady in Satin, the album on which she sings this, was conceived by here as a tribute to Sinatra, who--of course--fully acknowledged his debt to Billie!
Beautiful.