Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Music by: Henry Mancini
Arranged By: Nelson Riddle
From the Film: Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: January 28, 1964
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The days of wine and roses laugh
and run away like a child at play
Through the meadow land toward a
closing door
A door marked
"nevermore" that wasn't there before
The lone-ly night discloses just
a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that
introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and
you
<brief instrumental break>
The days of wine and roses
<more instrumental-rest of
the first verse>
The lonely-----the night
discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that
introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and
you