Thanks For The Memory Lyrics

Thanks For The Memory lyrics

Thanks For the Memory
Shep Fields

-Words and Music by Leo Robin and
Ralph Rainger
-introduced in the film "Big Broadcast Of 1938" by Bob Hope
and Shirley Ross
-adopted by Hope as his theme song


Thanks for
the memory
Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine
The Parthenon
and moments on the Hudson River Line
How lovely it was!

Thanks for
the memory
Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes
And motor trips and
burning lips and burning toast and prunes
How lovely it was!

Many's
the time that we feasted
And many's the time that we fasted
Oh, well, it
was swell while it lasted
We did have fun and no harm done

And thanks
for the memory
Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore
You might
have been a headache but you never were a bore
So thank you so
much.

Thanks for the memory
Of sentimental verse, nothing in my
purse
And chuckles when the preacher said "For better or for worse"
How
lovely it was

Thanks for the memory
Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by
the case
And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace
How
lovely it was!

We said goodbye with a highball
Then I got as "high"
as a steeple
But we were intelligent people
No tears, no fuss, Hooray!
For us

So, thanks for the memory
And strictly entre-nous, darling how
are you?
And how are all the little dreams that never did come
true?
Aw'flly glad I met you, cheerio, and toodle-oo
And thank you so
much.


Robin Hood