 Genius Lyrics
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Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World
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Many methods are used to help a song stand the test of time. If the title is repeated throughout the song, people remember it a lot easier. Having deep, touching, yet
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Louis Armstrong – On the Sunny Side of the Street
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Grab your coat and grab your hat baby / Leave your worries on the doorstep / Just direct your feet / On the sunny side of the street / Can't you hear that pitter-pat there? / That
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Louis Armstrong – Solitude
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In my solitude you haunt me / With reveries of days gone by / In my solitude you taunt me / With memories that never die / I sit in my chair filled with despair / Nobody could be
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Louis Armstrong – Sugar
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Oh sugar, I call my baby my sugar / I never maybe my sugar / Because my sugar is so confectionery / Funny, she never asks for my money / All I can give her is honey / That she can
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Louis Armstrong – La Vie En Rose
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This song is inspired by “La vie en rose” by Édith Piaf, a very famous French singer.
It talks about the narrator being so in love with someone that everything seems pretty
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Louis Armstrong – Cabaret
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What good is sittin' alone in your room / Come hear the music play, yes / Life is a cabaret old chum / Come to the cabaret / Put down that knittin', the book and the broom / Time
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Louis Armstrong – Someday
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Someday you'll be sorry / The way you treated me was wrong / I was the one who taught you all you know / Your friends have told you to make me sing another song / So good luck may
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Louis Armstrong & The Commanders – The Gypsy
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In a quaint caravan / There's a lady, they call The Gypsy, yes / She can look in the future / And drive away all your fears, yes, yes, yes / Everything will come right / If you
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Louis Armstrong (Ft. Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra) – Spooks!
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[Armstrong] / The other night, about twelve o'clock / I thought I'd go downstairs just to check the lock / When I heard something in the house / I don't mean a mouse / I swear they
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Oops
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[Verse 1: Louis Armstrong] / Oops, my heart went oops / The moment that we met, my heart went oops / I never will forget, my heart turned hoops / The moment that I met you / [Verse
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Louis Armstrong – Lazy River
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Yeah, haa haa, so, haa haa, wait on wait on / Up lazy river where the old mill run / Meet the lazy river with the noon day sun / Linger in the shade of a kind ole tree / Throw away
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Louis Armstrong (Ft. Benny Carter and His Orchestra) – Only You
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Only you / Can make this world seem right / Only you / Can make the darkness bright / Only you and you alone / Can thrill me like you do / And fill my heart with love for only you
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Louis Armstrong – Memories of You
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Waking skies at sunrise, every sunset, too / Seems to be bringing me memories of you / Here and there, everywhere, scenes that we once knew / And they all just recall, memories of
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime
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Summertime and the livin' is easy / Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high / Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin' / So hush little baby, don't you cry / One of these
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Louis Armstrong – Go Down Moses
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[Intro] / Go down, Moses / Way down in Egypt's land / Tell old Pharaoh to / Let my people go / [Verse 1] / When Israel was in Egypt's land / Let my people go / Oppress'd so hard
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Louis Armstrong – White Christmas
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas / Just like the ones I used to know / Where the treetops glisten and children listen / To hear sleigh bells in the snow / I'm dreaming of a white
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Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra – Because of You
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Because of you there's a song in my heart / Because of you my romance had its start / Because of you the sun will shine / The moon and stars will say you're mine / Forever and
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Louis Armstrong – Black and Blue
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“Black and Blue” is a 1929 jazz standard composed by Fats Waller with lyrics by Harry Brooks and also by Andy Razaf. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates by
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Louis Armstrong – Cheesecake
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[Intro: Louis Armstrong] / My girl loves cheesecake! / [Verse: Louis Armstrong & Billy Kyle] / Ohh. Cheesecake. Munchin' on a cheesecake, munchin' on a cheesecake / Cheesecake
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Louis Armstrong – Moon River
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[Verse] / Moon river, wider than a mile / I'm crossing you in style someday / Oh, dream maker, you heartbreaker / Wherever you are goin', I'm goin' your way / Two drifters, off to
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Tenderly
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“Tenderly” is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Written in the key of E♭ as a waltz in 3
4 time, it has since been performed
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Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong – Now You Has Jazz
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Though Crosby’s film career was marked by performances of slow, romantic ballads, this song from High Society introduced movie audiences to the singer more familiar from his
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Louis Armstrong & The Commanders – ’Zat You, Santa Claus? (Single Version)
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[Intro] / 'Zat You, Santa Claus? / [Verse 1] / Gifts I'm preparing for some Christmas sharing / But I pause because / Hanging my stocking I can hear a knocking / 'Zat you, Santa
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Louis Armstrong – All of Me
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Yes, all of me, why not take all of me baby / Yes, can't you see? I'm no good without you / Take my arms, I'll never use them / Take my lips, I want to lose them / Your goodbye
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Louis Armstrong – C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)
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C'est si bon (it's so good) / De / Com / C'est si bon / Lovers say that in france / When they thrill to romance / It means that it´s so good / C´est si bon / So I say to you / Like
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Louis Armstrong – Hello, Dolly!
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Hello, Dolly / This is Louis, Dolly / It's so nice to have you back where you belong / You're lookin' swell, Dolly / I can tell, Dolly / You're still glowin'...you're still crowin
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Louis Armstrong – Blueberry Hill
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[Verse 1] / I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill / On Blueberry Hill when I found you / The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill / And lingered until my dreams came true / The wind in
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Louis Armstrong – That's My Desire
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To spend one night with you / In our old rendezvous / And reminisce with you / That's my desire / To be where gypsies play / Down in that ole cafe / We'll dance till break of day
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Louis Armstrong – Mack the Knife
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Cover version of the standard by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, first performed in their 1928 anti-capitalist musical drama, The Threepenny Opera.
Brecht and Weill were heavily
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – April In Paris
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Originally written and composed for the Broadway musical ‘Walk a Little Faster’ by Yip Harburg and Vernon Duke respectively, the song has been considerably popular throughout the
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Louis Armstrong – Swing That Music
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nice swing
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Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson – What's New?
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What's new? / How is the world treating you? / You haven't changed a bit / Lovely as ever, I must admit / What's new? / How did that romance come through? / We haven't met since
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Louis Armstrong – Cool Yule
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[Verse] / From Coney Island to the Sunset Strip / Somebody's gonna make a happy trip / Tonight / While the moon is bright / He's gonna have a bag of crazy toys / To give the
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Can't We Be Friends?
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“Can’t We Be Friends?” is a 1929 song with lyrics by Paul James and music by Kay Swift, introduced on Broadway in The Little Show by Libby Holman.
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Louis Armstrong – Short But Sweet
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It was short, but it was sweet / Nevertheless, maybe we'll meet / Some other place, some other day, some other time / Though it's sad I know it's true / You've gone away with
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Louis Armstrong – Winter Wonderland
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Sleigh bells ring, are you listening / In the lane, snow is glistening / A beautiful sight we're happy tonight / Walking in a winter wonderland / Gone away is the bluebird / Here
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Louis Armstrong and His All Stars – Beale Street Blues
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You'll see pretty browns in beautiful gowns / You'll see tailor-mades and hand-me-downs / You'll meet honest men and pick-pockets skilled / You'll find that business never closes
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Louis Armstrong – St. Louis Blues
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I hate to see that evening sun go down / I hate to see that evening sun go down / 'Cause my lovin' baby done left this town / If I feel tomorrow like I feel today / If I feel
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Louis Armstrong – You're the Top
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At words poetic, I'm so pathetic / That I always have found it best / Instead of getting 'em off my chest / To let 'em rest unexpressed / I hate parading my serenading / As I'll
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Stars Fell On Alabama
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We lived our little drama / We kissed in a field of white / And stars fell on Alabama last night / I can't forget the glamour / Your eyes held a tender light / And stars fell on
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Louis Armstrong – Jeepers Creepers
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Armstrong premiered this song in the 1938 film Going Places. He sang the song to a racehorse, partly because African-Americans couldn’t generally sing to each other in Hollywood
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Louis Armstrong – Maybe It’s Because
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Maybe it's because the kiss you gave me / Touched my heart and went right through / Now I can't tell you why; I only know that I / Fell helplessly in love with you / Oh, maybe it's
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Cheek to Cheek
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“Cheek to Cheek” is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935,for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935). In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance
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Louis Armstrong – Ain't Misbehavin'
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No one to talk with / All by myself / No one to walk with / But I'm happy on the shelf / Ain't misbehavin' / I'm savin' my love for you / I know for certain / The one I love / I'm
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Louis Armstrong and His All Stars – Hello Brother
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A man wants to work for his pay / A man wants a place in the sun / A man wants a gal proud to say / That she'll become his lovin' wife / He wants a chance to give his kids a better
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