Lyr ADD: This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)

Subject: Lyr Req: A song in my head
From: GUEST,Ron
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:04 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A song in my head
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 10:08 PM

a song keeps going through my mind with word like

Beautiful girl walk a little slower when you walk by me

Shimmering sunsets stay a little longer so my eyes can see

little childeren when you shoot at bad men shoot at me

ect ect

Please help me again

thanks

ron

Subject: ADDPOP: This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 12:33 AM

It's sentimental, and it sounds like the singer is a dirty old man - but I kinda like it, despite my better judgment.
-Joe Offer-

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This is All I Ask
(Beautiful Girls Walk a Little Slower)
words and music by Gordon Jenkins, 1958
recorded by Burl Ives and Tony Bennett

As I approach the prime of my life,
I find I have the time of my life
Learning to enjoy at my leisure
All the simple pleasures
And so I happily concede:
This is all I ask;
This is all I need.

Beautiful girls
Walk a little slower when you walk by me.
Lingering sunsets
Stay a little longer with the lonely sea.
Children everywhere
When you shoot at bad men, shoot at me.
Take me to that strange enchanted land
Grownups seldom understand.

Wandering rainbows
Leave a bit of color for my heart to own.
Stars in the sky
Make my wish come true before the night has flown.
And let the music play as long
As there's a song to sing
And I will stay younger than Spring.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A song in my head (All I Ask)
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 01:01 AM

CREEPY!

Subject: Lyr Req: there is a song in my head
From: GUEST,Ron
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 09:42 PM

this song has been going through my head for some time now i hope some one can help me,again

Beautiful girl walk a little slower when you walk by me
shimmering sunsets stay a little longer so my eyes can see
childeren everywhere ect ect

what is the name of this song
please

Subject: Lyr Add: THIS IS ALL I ASK
From: annamill
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 10:09 PM

THIS IS ALL I ASK
Tony Bennett

As I approach the prime of my life
I find I have the time of my life
Learning to enjoy at my leasure
All the simple pleasure
And so I happily concede

This is all I ask
This is all I need

Beautiful girl, walk a little slower when you walk by me
Lingering sunset, stay a little longer with the lonely sea
Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me
Take me to that strange enchanted land
Grownups seldom understand

Wandering rainbows, leave a bit of color for my heart to own
Stars in the sky, make my wish come true
Before the night has flown
And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing
Then I will stay younger than spring

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: there is a song in my head
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 08:10 AM

Tony Bennett recorded it, but he didn't write it. It was written by Gordon Jenkins. It was also recorded by Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Robert Goulet, Burl Ives, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, and lots of others.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Nov 22 - 01:28 AM

According to Wikipedia:

Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.

I think Jenkins was responsible for the "big band" sound of the earliest Weavers recordings.