I DREAM OF JEANIE WITH THE IGHT BROWN HAIR was composed by Stephen Foster in 1854

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;
I see her tripping where the bright streams play,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way.
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour.
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er:
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

I long for Jeanie with the daydawn smile,
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile;
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by,
Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die:—
Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,—
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again:
Oh! I long for Jeanie, and my heart bows low,
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow.

I sigh for Jeanie, but her light form strayed
Far from the fond hearts round her native glade;
Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown,
Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.
Now the nodding wild flowers may wither on the shore
While her gentle fingers will cull them no more:
Oh! I sigh for Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair ( Stephen Foster) vocal by Albert Diner

THEME FROM SCHINDLER'S LIST
Music br John Williams
WHOEVER SAVES ONE LIFE
Lyrics by Albert Diner

'WHOEVER SAVES ONE LIFE'
lyrics by Albert Diner

vocal by Albert Diner

Whoever saves one life
Saves the world entire
You the one who gave us shelter
amid the madness going on
We the hopeless know 
The list is life
We the hopeless know 
the list is life...life
We the hopeless know 
the list is life

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide,
we were in desperation
Then you spoke in our behalf
and added more names
more names and more names

Whoever saves one life
Whoever saves one life

We will always remember.....you
We will always remember you

Theme from Schindler's List / Whoever saves one life.  Vocal by Albert  Diner

Couldn/t find someone to duet this french song, so i sang both parts
vocal by albert diner in french

A quoi ça sert l'amour?
On raconte toujours
Des histoires insensées.
A quoi ça sert d'aimer?
L'amour ne s'explique pas!
C'est une chose comme ça,
Qui vient on ne sait d'où
Et vous prend tout à coup.
Moi, j'ai entendu dire
Que l'amour fait souffrir,
Que l'amour fait pleurer.
A quoi ça sert d'aimer?
L'amour ça sert à quoi?
A nous donner d' la joie
Avec des larmes aux yeux
C'est triste et merveilleux!
Pourtant on dit souvent
Que l'amour est décevant,
Qu'il y en a un sur deux
Qui n'est jamais heureux
Même quand on l'a perdu,
L'amour qu'on a connu
Vous laisse un goût de miel.
L'amour c'est éternel!
Tout ça, c'est très joli,
Mais quand tout est fini,
Il ne vous reste rien
Qu'un immense chagrin
Tout ce qui maintenant
Te semble déchirant,
Demain, sera pour toi
Un souvenir de joie!
En somme, si j'ai compris,
Sans amour dans la vie,
Sans ses joies, ses chagrins,
On a vécu pour rien.
Mais oui! Regarde-moi!
A chaque fois j'y crois
Et j'y croirai toujours
Ça sert à ça, l'amour!
Mais toi, t'es la derniere
Mais toi, t'es la premiere!
Avant toi, 'y avait rien,
Avec toi je suis bien!
C'est toi que je voulais,
C'est toi qu'il me fallait!
Toi qui j'aimerai toujours
Ça sert à ça, l'amour!.

Chanson
Musique et paroles: MICHEL EMER

A QUOI CA SERT L'AMOUR ( DUET) ( Albert Diner chante solo )

thr way you look tonight
music by jerome kern

lyrics by dorothy fields

vocal by albert diner


GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK ; THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT

Title: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SNOW?
by Albert Diner ( 1960s)

Have you ever seen snow?
Have you ever felt it melt in your hand?
Did you  ever  know pain?
Have you no regrets 'bout saying goodbye to me?

Never ever wonder
Not having me by your side...
Don't you ever miss me?
Have you no regrets 'bout saying goodgye to me?

Did you ever know pain?
Have you no regrets 'bout saying goodbye to me?

  _  ____    ________  ________ ________

Credits: Works and music: Albert Diner
Vocal: Albert Diner
December 2014
Derechos Reservados

i wanted to write poems in the style of Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen

" Have You Ever Seen Snow?" ( A High School Love poem 1960s)

A favorite yiddish song about LUCK  ( Mazl )
Happy Hannukah


A Bisele Mazl  yiddish song  vocal by Albert Diner

A worldwide yiddish favorite, sung in many languages, french, english, hebrew, etc.

TUMBALALAIKA yiddish song Albert Diner , vocal

MAKSIM LEVINSKY , international  and yiddish singer in a LIVE   performance of the worldwide yiddish favorite RAISINS AND
ALLMONDS ( Rozhinkes mit mandlen )

*Rozhinkes mit Mandlen* 2012 LIVE - Yiddish Lullaby Song - Maksim Levinsky *ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען*

Maksim Levinsky /yiddish song/ Raisins and Almonds

Impromptu lyrics to a movie theme from 1955
inspired by a poem by W.B. YEATS, and a favorite of
Marilyn Monroe, star of the film THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
directed by Billy Wilder.
Music composed by Alfred  Newman
background music in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON scene in the film
I would retitle this music as "LOVE THEME from THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH " ( 1955)
Does anyone know if this melody was ever recorded as a song
with lyrics in the 1950s ?

Lyric adaptation : Albert Diner
vocal by  Albert Diner
May 2015


NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART FOR LOVE
THAT FADES FROM KISS TO KISS
FOR EVERYTHING THAT'S LOVELY
IS BUT A BRIEF DELIGHT
NEVER GIIVE YOUR HEART OUTRIGHT

I WHO MADE THIS KNOWS THE COST
FOR I GAVE ALL THE HEART AND LOST
NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART FOR LOVE
THAT FADES FROM KISS TO KISS

NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART FOR LOVE
THAT FADES FROM KISS TO KISS
FOR EVERYTHING THAT'S LOVELY 
IS BUT A BRIEF DELIGHT
NEVER GIVE YOUR HEART OUTRIGHT


Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe reciting this poem to
Carl Sandburg, Norman Rosten , Arthur Miller, Lee Strasberg
and others who were close to her:

Never give all the Heart
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.


The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART FOR LOVE vocal

LYRICS WRITING EXERCISE> WATCH A FILM, FIND A MELODY FOR WHICH NO LYRICS WERE EVER WRITTEN, AND BASED ON THE FILM'S PLOT, WRITE A LYRIC FOR THAT MELODY.

i chose ROSLYN'S THEME from THE MISFITS,  a great film with superb melodies by ALEX NORTH. Very tense acting by MARILYN MONROE in her last completed film in which she co -starred  with Clark GABLE, Montgomery CLIFT and Eli WALLACH, directed by JOHN HUSTON. Screenplay by Arthur Miller.

These lyrics refer to Roslyn Taber, the sensitive woman brilliantly potrayed by Marilyn Monroe.

AWAIT MY LOVE, PLEASE DON'T DESPAIR
Lyrics by Albert DINER
vocal by Albert Diner (july 2015)

Await my love,
Please don't despair, 
You are not alone
I'm here with you

Never ever leave me now
Never ever doubt my love,
Never ever say goodbye,
Never ever please say hello
I beg of you,
Come back to me
Now


NOTES:
What is fascinating in this film is the tension between GUIDO
(Eli Wallach )  and ROSLYN ( Marilyn Monroe) throughout the film. Their scenes together are superb.

I always wondered what lyrics would have been provided for this melody by such greats as Stephen SONDHEIM, Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN, HY ZARET, 

"THE MISFITS .  'it shouts and sings with life....explodes with love."

Await my love, please don't despair  (Roslyn theme ) lyrics Albert Diner

MUSIC BACKGROUND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM THE MISFITS STARRING MARILYN MONROE CLARK GABLE MONTGOMERY MONTY CLIFT ELI WALLACH AND THELMA RITTER. Musical score by Alex North.
These impromptu lyrics by Albert Diner
vocal by Albert Diner


Await my love,
Please don't despair, 
You are not alone
I'm here with you

Never ever leave me now
Never ever doubt my love,
Never ever say goodbye,
Never ever please say hello
I beg of you,
Come back

Never ever leave me now
Never ever doubt my love

Await my love, please don't despair ( slow version )

(con molto feeling) opening sequence of the film THE MISFITS, background music by ALEX NORTH, STARRING MARILYN MONROE CLARK GABLE MONTGOMERY MONTY CLIFT ELI WALLACH AND THELMA RITTER. WRITTEN BY ARTHUR MILLER.
These impromptu lyrics by Albert Diner.vocal by Albert Diner
In  a desperate manner...

Await my love,
Please don't despair, 
You are not alone
I'm here with you

Never ever leave me now
Never ever doubt my love,
Never ever say goodbye,
Never ever please say hello
I beg of you,
Come back

Never ever leave me now
Never ever doubt my love

Await my love, please don't despair (Sdtrack background music)

Theme from Schindler's List. music by John Williams
Whoever saves one life. Lyrics by Albert Diner
Shoa Holocaust memorial YOM HASHOA YOM HASHOAH

 'WHOEVER SAVES ONE LIFE'
lyrics by Albert Diner


vocal by Albert Diner ( March 2016 ))

Whoever saves one life
Saves the world entire
You the one who gave us shelter
amid the madness going on
We the hopeless know 
The list is life
We the hopeless know 
the list is life...life
We the hopeless know 
the list is life

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide,
we were in desperation
Then you spoke in our behalf
and added more names
more names and more names

Whoever saves one life
Whoever saves one life

We will always remember.....you
We will always remember you


Whoever saves one life ( Theme from Schindler's List ) Albert Diner vocal rehearsal

vocal Albert Diner rehearsal

GREENSLEEVES

Alas, my love, you do me wrong
To cast me off discourteously
For I have loved you well and long
Delighting in your company

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my lady greensleeves

Alas, my love, that you should own
A heart of wanton vanity
So must I meditate alone
Upon your insincerity

Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my lady greensleeves

Abraham Diner

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