Angel Eyes

This song now is ah, the, usual saloon song We do in every performance And there are many of them, for instance "Rainy Days" is a saloon song "One For My Baby" is a good saloon song And they used to be called torch songs years ago, when I was a boy I don't think I was ever a boy I know I wasn't a girl No, but they really did in the old days, they called 'em torch songs And then of course we modern days, we call them saloon songs Because we called every place that sells whiskey a saloon This is a saloon. It's big, but it's a saloon This one was written by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis And with a pretty arrangement by Nelson Riddle, this is it You know that uh, these kind of songs are quite sad And they tell the story of a poor soul who's left alone in his room His chick has flipped and flew the coop Gone man, gone And uh, he's in trouble because he's got not much left to drink He's pretty bummed as it is Worse than that he's got a half ounce of grass and no paper and no matches Ain't that a bitch? That's heavy man Anyway he, uh, he sits there for a couple of days As a lost soul, and one morning at about one thirty or two o'clock in the morning He decides he's gonna go out among the rest of us To see if he can make it, make it back into the mainstream And he doesn't quite make it, he's just looking for somebody to talk to So you're it Drink up all of you people Order anything that you see And have fun you happy people The drink and the laugh's on me I try to think that love's not around Still it's uncomfortably near My poor old heart, it ain't gaining any ground Because my angel eyes, she ain't here Angel eyes that old Devil sent They glow unbearably bright And need I say that my love's been misspent? Misspent with angel eyes tonight Drink up, drink up all of you people Order anything that you see And have fun, have lots of fun, all you happy people The drink and the laughs are on me Pardon me but I gotta run The fact's uncommonly clear I'd like to find who's now the number one And why my angel eyes, she ain't here 'Scuse me while I