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Lyr Req: I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams

20 May 99 - 05:21 AM (#80030)
Subject: Pocket full of dreams
From: Musicman

Hi there,

looking for words and music to the song "Pocket full of dreams"

If anybody can help, thanks.

Musicman

20 May 99 - 06:46 AM (#80039)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: The_one_and_only_Dai

Musicman - can you play the 'Dambusters' ?

21 May 99 - 04:40 AM (#80396)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Musicman

Can't say that I know that one......

21 May 99 - 11:20 PM (#80662)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: katlaughing

MusicMan, does that have anything to do with the one from the late 50's called "Catch a falling star"?

Catch a falling star
And put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day
etc.

Do you now any of the words?

kat, weren't you making a cd?

22 May 99 - 01:20 AM (#80681)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Sandy Paton

Fragments only, I'm afraid, in this ancient memory. My mother used to sing it:

(Can't think of the opening lines, dammit) It's my universe,
Even with an empty purse,"br> 'Cause I've got a pocket full of dreams.

Wouldn't take the wealth of Wall Street
For (or? the one that I _______?
But I calculate I'm worth my weight
In goldenrod.

Lucky, lucky me,
I can live in luxury
For I've got a pocket full of dreams.

Sorry. It just ain't there, but I'll bet some clever Mudcatter can link you with a blue clicky thingy to a web site that has it.

Sandy

22 May 99 - 01:07 PM (#80759)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Musicman

Hey Sandy! that's the one!

I have some of those lyrics too, but only fragments, as you say....

I also need melody line or something so I can hear how it goes and make up some guitar chords for it as well (unless anybody has those!)

Thanks,

Musicman

22 May 99 - 05:00 PM (#80821)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Sandy Paton

Musicman: Maybe we could patch together a text, unless our good buddy, Joe Offer, or our cowgirl sweetheart, Katlaffing, can come up with a pop music song site and get us there with a blue clicky thingy.

I'm not sophisticated enough to do music on this machine, and my machine isn't sophisticated enough to do it for me, so I can't send the tune bu e-pistle. However, if you want to waste a couple of bucks, I could sing my mother's version of the sucker for you via Mr. Bell's invention. If you're up for that, make it late afternoon Eastern time, so I'll be sufficiently awake to get my ship in order. Where are you? If you're not one of our OzCats, for whom the escapade would be too costly, you might dial 860-364-5661. I'm leaving Monday for Virginia, won't be back till late Friday. Away again on Saturday, gigging away again on Sunday, sleeping late on Monday. So, don't make that call until at least Tuesday of the next week! Can you wait? If not, make it tomorrow, Sunday the 23rd!

Sandy

23 May 99 - 12:45 AM (#80911)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Frank Maher

Hi Paul, The only Reference I could find to the Song is in the Amazon.com Website... It's on a Louis Armstrong CD......

23 May 99 - 03:07 AM (#80935)
Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS
From: SingsIrish Songs

Here it is as posted at LyricsWorld

~Mary

I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS
Bing Crosby
- words by John Burke, music by James V. Monaco
- Johnny Burke wrote this song around an expression he overheard Bing using. Bing recorded the song May 23, 1938, with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, and before summer's end it was nestled in the No. 1 position on the pop music charts. The song remained in the top position for four weeks, and stayed on the charts for 17. "Pocketful of Dreams" was written for the Paramount movie "Sing You Sinners" starring Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Ellen Drew and Donald O'Connor.

Happiness comes with success
And that I guess is true
But success is more or less
A point of view

I'm no millionaire
But I'm not the type to care
'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams
It's my universe
Even with an empty purse
'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

I wouldn't take the wealth of Wall Street
For a road where nature trods
And I calculate that I'm worth my weight
In goldenrods

Lucky, lucky me
I can live in luxury
'Cause I've got a pocketful of dreams

23 May 99 - 01:05 PM (#80989)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Sandy Paton

Well, by doggies, I was close! Even came up with "I'm no millionaire, but I'm not the type to care" this morning. I thought I heard old Bing singing it in my mind's ear, but figured I was confusing it with one of the songs he and Bob Hope sang in Road to (Somewhere) that said:

Ain't got a dime to my name,
What a terrible shame.
Ho-hum, ho-ho-hum.
I've got a hole in my shoe,
And my stocking shows through.
Ho-hum, ho-ho-hum.

I'm just as free as a bird in a tree,
Life is a wonderful whim!
Look at the crank with his dough in the bank;
Don't you feel sorry for him? (uh-uh)

Rollin' along at a loss,
Never gatherin' moss.
Ho-hum, ho-ho-ho-ho-hum.

These two songs ought to be in the thread Rick Fielding started awhile ago about "the same song written again (or whatever).

Anyway, congratulations, "Mary who sings Irish songs!" I knew some 'Cat would find it. You're the one!

Sandy (secret admirer)

27 May 99 - 06:52 PM (#82226)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: Richard Bridge

Didn't there used to be an Eddie Cochrane song with a very similar title or first line?

27 May 99 - 08:46 PM (#82253)
Subject: RE: Pocket full of dreams
From: SingsIrish Songs

He had a song called Pocketful of Hearts