Holly, Buddy - Fool's Paradise Lyrics

Buddy, you simply were the best, so young, so talented, you are truly loved and missed.

You took me up to heaven
When you took me in your arms
I was dazzled by your kisses
Blinded by your charms
I was lost, in a Fool's Paradise
Good and lost, in a Fool's Paradise
When you told me that you loved me
I gave my heart to you
And I wondered if there could be
Any truth in love so new
I was lost, in a Fool's Paradise
Good and lost, in a Fool's Paradise
The whole world was my kingdom
And your love the gem in my crown
Then I saw you glance at a new romance
And my love came tumbling down
Though you treat me kind-a coolish
And may never let me know
That you think I'm being foolish
Because I love you so
I'll still get lost, in a Fool's…

The great Buddy Holly!!

I like this song

Boy oh boy could he sing? No doubt about it! Perfect pitch! Even when he gets a frog in his voice on some recordings it still sounds great👌

I discovered song's of Buddy Holly about less than a year ago . I am an artist and i can appreciate the good music when i heard it . Let me tell you something, when i heard Buddy Holly music , it hit me hard , its sooo good , so much talent , it goes on top of my favorite music to listend now . He is one of the greatest of all time , and thanks to him , we had the beatle , all of the beatle stuff is inspired by the cricket , even the name john lenon choose refer to the cricket (2 meaning for cricket ;sport and bug, 2 meaning for beetle ; car and bug , but john decided to change to ''beatles'' for some reason)

De los mejores. Soy Mexicano pero me encanta este tipo de musica. Buddy Holly de mis favoritos.

All sin is forgiven by God. Jesus has buddy's to save you from hearing the rap that kills soul wait it's rap is godly and it's in YouTube buddy inspires this one it's a real warning to rap listen ers

Bonita Cancion..!!!

Fantastic overdub

oops....so, *thank you*!!! xxx

Like it? you must be fuckin' nuts---it's nothing short of brilliant!

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What is he doing at 44s in, looks like he's defying gravity?!

Wow!! Wow!!! Wow!! Genius!! Wow!!wow!!!wow!!!

Love it. Was thinking about it earlier. Thanks so much for putting it up.

great artist if he was alive today he would be disappointed with the state of the music today.

CLASSIC.

I always thought buddy wrote this but he didn't but he did write most of his songs

He did co-write it, though. Same as most of his songs, really...

He wrote this like 99% of all his other songs. Fact!! Others put their name on his songs to rip him off fact!!

This song comin''s up to my mind for the last 2 weeks, so time to watch it at YT again,, and read some reactions, interesting, Thx YT, Thx Buddy for such a lot of fine Music !!

absolutely without a peer. For some reason I started to sing this song in the shower this morning.

I love him too bits!! Forget Beatles, Holly and Crickets, bless them!!😊

I remember when this song was on one of the albums. That I had on Buddy Holly. He also experimented with sound. Also knew about recording songs. He accomplished a lot in such a short period of time. In 6m he had 9 top ten smash hits. He contributed plenty to Rock & Pop music. He was ahead of his time even though he died before his time.

I used to think Buddy was a nerd but after reading biographies about him...No way!
He was a tough customer. Buddy became friends with Marty Robbins and when Buddy did his
first recording session in Nashville he hung out at Marty's publishing company. Don't believe too much about the movie either.

Buddy Holly forever 🕶🎸🎼 RIP 😍

The one and only Buddy Holly

Esta buena canción la compuso BUDDY HOLLY y la canto y la publico en el año 1958

Classic song.

Heard him one day at 16 years old - sold forever - 72 now x

You and me both, I was 13, I think

There was 8 people with their phones upside down

like like like like likalikalikalikalika

Anyone know jack wells? He played guitar like buddy

Well,...nobody seems to be interested, but I am,...any chance he is related to you??,..any chance to see/hear him anywhere

i still want to go to the SURF,before i croak!

i caught the "holly" bug when i was almost 12 in 2/59 at lindbergh school in kenmore,ny!

You will live on forever Buddy

im living in my fools paradise

He was one of a kind..I'm 74 and he has never been more than a block away my whole life. Loved his voice and I understand why he played the Apollo. He also gave me the fender guitar to hang with.

nice one larry, wish i could have been there aswell mate, but one consolation is buddy, ritchie and jp are still going strong with thier music and i think they will still be going strong for at least another 60 to 70 years mayby longer than that because a huge number of young kids love thier music aswell,RIP, BUDDY, RITCHIE and JP,

Thefamily46107 First of all, what Nazi Propaganda video? Secondly, why are you looking me up in the first place?

My dad introduced me to Buddy.Hes 76, the same as you with the guitars👌

he also has an EP signed by the Crickets when they played at the Talk of the North in Eccles, Manchester

I believe you. I met a guy 20 some years ago in Lubbock while visiting my Grandmas sister and she introduced me to a man who lived on the same street and went to grade school all the way up through high school as Buddy and was also good buddies with Bob Montgomery and showed me pictures that he took of Buddy and Bob playing together at a roller skating rink as teenagers and his name was also Larry Brown is this the same Larry Brown?

i heard the don mclean version of this

Read the bios and you'll see he was 5'11 and a great guitarist.
What a great song writer.

He was 6"0

Depends on what shoes you're wearing, haha

A great song from Buddy Holly !!!

@ Paul Denton you are wrong mate, Buddy Holly was an awesome guitarist, but was clever enough to use others that he considered to be better than himself!

Pretty sure the second guitarist was Tommy Alsop.

actually buddy wasn't much of a guitar player,thats way towards the end he added another guitar player, who was a bit of a buddy look-alike. i agree with your other oints :)

Paul Denton bullshit.. Buddy was one of the best Rock guitarists at that particular time, maybe not quite as good as Chuck Berry but Buddy absolutely had it and created his own style.

Paul Denton lmao did u just say buddy holly wasn’t much of a guitarist

I was born in the wrong generation

I agree with everything that you, and Amy Lee, had to say. I would just like to add a comment made so often by people who knew Buddy: He had the pleasant, unassuming personality of a completely secure man. He saw no need to impress, or to 'put down' others. He was quietly confident in his music and his future. Elvis, for whatever reason, never possessed the same level of security, and that eventually destroyed him.

Buddy said, without Elvis he would never have made it, not denying Buddy's huge influence but I don't think you need to attempt to take anything away from Elvis. Besides you're not not comparing apples with apples, Presley opened a lot of doors. Sure he was no singer/songwriter or great guitarist like Buddy was, however I think most would agree his voice was far more versatile and his stage presence far superior to Buddy's. Not knocking Buddy who I love but they were different styles of artist.

And just think: His record career lasted a year and a half.

Totally insane. He was a songwriting machine.

Truly epic when you think of it. Imagine if he had lived...oh the songs.

Wow, I never thought of that. So touching

For all the fame of Elvis, his influence pales beside Buddy's. Buddy did more for R&R: experimenting with overdubbing, timbre, and meter, taking R&R to new markets, & creating the singer-songwriter phenomenon, than Elvis or anyone else. An old bus, sub-zero temperatures, a poorly-planned tour, and a fortuitous turn of events at the Mason City Airport, could never bury all that. BTW, every rock fan should go to at least 1 Winter Dance Party in their lifetime; the Surf is where history was made.

RIP 54 years later. This song, and many others were so influential that even a Bonanza 35 could not stop them. This has always been my favorite song (if forced to choose a favorite Buddy song) because, at least IMHO, reflects the versatility and the development of Buddy from his earlier rockabilly days. It was a bridge from the Oh Boy! phase to the NY phase. All in all, it is simply astonishing to think of what Buddy could have done had Peterson been qualified to pilot that plane at that time.

Gosh, I love this song!

Buddy, we were all lost in a fools paradise when you were around........we didn't know about it until you left. You were the Greatest!

i love thi song.thanks for posting.great! from japan

ONE OF MY FAVS BY BUDDY..
THIS REALLY IS A DARN GOOD SONG..
I LOVE TO SING THIS IN KARAOKE
AND I DO..

Buddy was about 5ft 11 inches and only 145 lbs. A thin man with a powerful voice!!!!

I love the piano plankin. kinda like it from" rave on"

fiftymerc sled that’s Norman Petty’s wife Vi on the piano

@mickkey7 He sure was a tall teenager.

@jjeepster02 His born name was Holley yes. But his artist name changed to ''Holly''. Buddy was just a name he was called as a kid. His real name was Charles Hardin Holley.
:)

killer audio/video on this great Buddy tune! I do a humble tribute version of "Rave On." Regards, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)

holly wasnt 6ft 3in but he was a big star, this is my favorite crickets record,and to think it was a b side,buddy like the beatles had no b sides, check out price and fame together and there version f this,its aok ,may be 30yrs old tho.

the great buddy holly fools paradise was one of his best!

Love Buddy, Brilliat song!!

@drieg59 Amen to that..Buddy's gloriously UNIQUE voice with SUCH wistful lyrics; beautiful. This song ~ as with SO many of Buddy's masterpieces ~ ALWAYS 'chokes me up'; 'we' were SO very fortunate to have him as 'our voice' way back then, SO fortunate that I feel truly sorry for those who weren't part of the MAGIC of the late 50's..and then 3/2/59 the AWFUL day the music died.
Norm. & Vi. [NorVaJak] had MUCH to answer for but they did Buddy justice too as did Geo. Martin to Beatles later.

This lyric is so appropriate to me at this time.Thank god for poets,and the fact that it is an upbeat song is so clever and good.

Had this 45 as a kid. This was the "B" side to "Think it Over" but this tune really sent me (old timer's expression) the first time I heard it. It was really unusual to hear a piano, rather than guitar driven song from Buddy. Well done Vi Petty (piano player) this really had a fabulous vibe.

Thank you Nancy for this one.
One of the greatest singers of his era.
Thank you buddyfan57 for posting

Thanks for finally posting this nostalgic song.. reminding my of my younger days.

yes i think thats where i got this song from

hah! great one..

idk i read on a website that he was 5 ft and 11 and half inches tall but idk if that was true i think it is

excellent choice - good post

Thanks .... Peter

no its from a cd and thanks for the comment

Buddy was my hero as young boy..still is love Buddy's sound never be another thanks for posting this