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Thread #98334   Message #1945892
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Jan-07 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Color Me Blue-Lonely-Arms empty now[Coloring Book]
Subject: ADDPOP: My Coloring Book
Lyrics World has this transcription of Barbra Streisand's cover of the song. Kitty Kallen and Sandy Stewart are also listed as having recorded it. It's a really lousy transcription, so I've fixed it as much as I can recall (with help from a Hal Leonard fakebook, which doesn't have the introductory verse).
Who Wrote That Song? says the song was introduced by Kay Ballard, which sounds right to me.

MY COLORING BOOK
Barbra Streisand
Written by Fred Ebb (words) & John Kander (music), 1962


For those who fancy coloring books
And lots of people do
He's a new one for you

A most unusual coloring book
The kind you never see
Crayons ready, very well
Begin to color me


These are the eyes that watched him
As he walked away
Color them grey

This is the heart that thought
He would always be true
Color it blue

These are the arms that held him
And touched him, then lost him somehow
Color them empty now

These are the beads (tie) I wore
Until she came between
Color them (it) green

This is the room I sleep in
And walk in and weep in
And hide in that nobody sees
Color it lonely, please

This is the man
The one I depended upon
Color him gone...



THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, 1963

(the male version has a green tie, says the fakebook. You can figure out for yourself how to changes the he's and she's)
Or could it be that the requested song is "Love Is Blue"?