A Kiss That Is Never Tasted, Is

So I Asked Him To Play "trav'lin' All Alone." That Came Closer Than Anything To The Way I Felt. And Some Part Of It Must Have Come Across. The Whole Joint Quieted Down. If Someone Had Dropped A Pin, It Would Have Sounded Like A Bomb. When I Finished, Everybody In The Joint Was Crying In Their Beer, And I Picked Thirty-eight Bucks Up Off The Floor. . . . When I Showed Mom The Money For The Rent And Told Her I Had A Regular Job Singing For Eighteen Dollars A Week, She Could Hardly Believe It.

If I'm Going To Sing Like Someone Else, Then I Don't Need To Sing At All.

I Can't Stand To Sing The Same Song The Same Way Two Nights In Succession, Let Alone Two Years Or Ten Years.

In This Country Kings Or Dukes Don't Amount To Nothing. The Greatest Man Around Then Was Franklin D. Roosevelt, And He Was The President; So I Started Calling Lester The President. It Got Shortened To Pres.

Don't Threaten Me With Love, Baby. Let's Just Go Walking In The Rain.