“Rose of my heart”

by Johnny Cash

We’re the best partners this world’s ever seen,
Together as close as can be.
But sometimes it’s hard to find time in between,
To tell you what you mean to me.

You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
If you’re tired, rest your head on my arm.
Rose of my heart.

When sorrow holds you in its arms of clay,
It’s rain drops that fall from your eyes.
Your smile’s like the sun come to earth for a day,
You brighten my blackest of skies.

You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
If you’re cold, let my love make you warm.
Rose of my heart.

So hard times or easy times, what do I care,
There’s nothing I’d change if I could.
The tears and the laughter are things that we share,
Your hand in mine makes it good.

You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
If you’re cold, let my love make you warm.
Rose of my heart.

You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
If you’re cold, let my love make you warm.
Rose of my heart.

Johnny Cash sings this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9vfjTBo4jQ

“Am I blue?”

by Akst and Clark 1929

I’m just a woman, a lonely woman,
waiting on the weary shore.
I’m just a woman who’s only human,
one you should feel sorry for.

Well, I woke up this morning a long about dawn.
Without a warning I found that he was gone.
Why did he do it? How could he do it?
He’d never done it before.

Am I blue. Am I blue.
Ain’t these tears in these eyes tellin’ you?
Oh, am I blue? Well, I bet you would be, too,
if each plan with your man done fell through.

There was a time I was his only one.
but now I’m the sad and lonely one.

Was I gay ‘til today?
But now that man is gone,
he’s gone and we are through.
Am I blue.

There was a time I was his only one.
But now, a, now, now, now, I’m the sad and lonely one.
Oh god, I’m lonely.

But I remember, oh, I remember when I was gay.
That was up until today,
‘cause now that man is gone, he’s gone and we are through.
Am I, am I, well, would you believe it if I told you I’m blue?

Cher sings this famous song in the early 1970’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mmA-v_O7dg&feature=related

“You don’t know what love is”

You don’t know what love is
Until you learned the meaning of the blues
Until you loved the love you’ve had to lose
You don’t know what love is

You don’t know how lips hurt
Until you’ve kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you’ve flipped your heart and you have lost
You dont know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart fears
The thought of suffering
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing

You dont know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you reached each dawn with sleepless nights
You don’t know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart fears
The thought of suffering
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing

You don’t know what love is
Until you learned the meaning of the blues
Until you loved the love you had to lose
You don’t know what love is

cantata dalla grande Billie Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUXnAMpFoo

nella versione della jazz singer siciliana Giulia La Rosa

http://www.myspace.com/larosagiulia