"Memories of You" — Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf's 1930 inescapable haunting.
Writer(s): razaf/blake
Waking skies - at sunrise
Every sunset too
Seems to be - bringing me
Memories of you
Here and there - every where
Scenes that we once knew
And they all - just recall
Memories of you
(oh) how I wish I could forget those, (those) happy yesteryears
That have left a rosary of tears
Your face beams - in my dreams
(in) spite of all (that) I do
(and) everything - seems to bring
Memories of you
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- Written by Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf in 1930. The memories that survive the relationship — the person gone but the traces everywhere. Sinatra in the tradition of African American songwriters: Blake and Razaf's catalogue as central to the Songbook.