Billy Eckstine - I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Live Version) Lyrics

Lyrics I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Live Version) - Billy Eckstine



Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!
I've grown accustomed to her face.
She almost makes the day begin.
I've grown accustomed to the tune
That she whistles night and noon.
Her smiles, her frowns,
Her ups, her downs
Are second nature to me now,
Like breathing out and breathing in.
I was serenly independent
And content before we met.
Surely I could always be that way again - and yet,
I've grown accustomed to her look,
Accustomed to her voice,
Accustomed to her face.
(Spoken)
Marry Freddy. What an infantile idea. What a heartless,
Wicked, brainless thing to do. But she'll regret it. It's
Doomed before they even take the vow.
I can see her now, Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill,
In a wretched little flat above a store.
I can see her now, not a penny in the till,
And a bill collector beating at the door.
She'll try to teach the things I taught her,
And end up selling flowers instead.
Begging for her bread and water,
While her husband has his breakfast in bed.
In a year or so, when she's prematurely grey,
And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk,
She'll come home and lo,
He'll have upped and run away,
With a social-climbing heiress from New York.
Poor Eliza. How simply frightful!
How humiliating! How delightful!
How poignant it'll be on that inevitable night
When she hammers on my door in tears and rags.
Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite,
Will I take her in or hurl her to the walls?
Give her kindness or the treatment she deserves?
Will I take her back or throw the baggage out?
But, I'm a most forgiving man,
The sort who never could, never would,
Take a position and staunchly never budge.
A most forgiving man.
But I shall never take take her back
If she were even crawling on her knees.
Let her promise to atone,
Let her shiver, let her moan,
I'll slam the door and let the hell-cat freeze!
Marry Freddy, ha!
But I'm so used to hear her day,
"Good morning" ev'ry day.
Her joys, her woes,
Her highs, her lows,
Are second nature to me now,
Like breathing out and breathing in.
I'm very grateful she's a woman,
And so easy to forget, rather like a habit
One can always break, and yet,
I've grown accustomed to the trace,
Of something in the air,
Accustomed to her face.



Writer(s): Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner


Billy Eckstine - A Life in Jazz
Album A Life in Jazz
date of release
21-02-2012

1 I Apologize - Original Mix
2 Moonlight in Vermont - Live Version
3 Misty - Live Version
4 You'll Never Walk Alone - Live Version
5 Once More With Feeling - Original Mix
6 Medley-I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good), Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me - Live Version
7 Stormy Weather - Original Mix
8 Cottage for Sale - Original Mix
9 Have a Song On Me - Original Mix
10 Blues in the Night - Original Mix
11 I Hear a Rhapsody - Original Mix
12 As Time Goes By - Original Mix
13 That Old Black Magic - Original Mix
14 I Love You - Original Mix
15 With Every Breath I Take - Original Mix
16 Secret Love - Original Mix
17 I'm Beginning to See the Light - Original Mix
18 Anything You Wanna Do (I Wanna Do With You) - Original Mix
19 Like Wow - Original Mix
20 That's for Me - Original Mix
21 It Might As Well Be Spring - Live Version
22 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Live Version)
23 Lady Luck - Original Mix
24 Lush Life - Live Version
25 Without a Song - Original Mix
26 I Want a Little Girl - Original Mix
27 Medley-Prelude to a Kiss, I'm Beginning to See the Light - Live Version
28 Fools Rush in - Live Version
29 In the Still of the Night - Live Version
30 Prisoner of Love - Live Version
31 Little Mama - Live Version
32 I Apologize - Live Version
33 Till There Was You - Original Mix
34 Alright, Okay, You Win - Original Mix
35 'Deed I Do - Original Mix
36 Stormy Monday Blues - Original Mix




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