Nights at the Chez-David Roth

[00:00.000] 作词 : David Roth [00:01.000] 作曲 : David Roth [00:13.01]Some thirty-odd years ago when I was three [00:17.92]My sister a couple years older than me [00:23.19]We'd get to go down to the old Chez Paree [00:27.78]On the North side of downtown Chicago [00:33.17]My dad worked the door with a wide-open hand [00:37.64]Tuxedo-ed and tailored, a most handsome man [00:43.90]My mother auditioned to sing with the band [00:48.42]The most beautiful girl in the room [00:54.56]All the performers who came there to play [00:59.09]Sinatra and Bennett and young Mel Torme [01:05.58]"They'd hang from the rafters," my father would say [01:10.27]On those magical nights at the Chez [01:23.25]One evening that winter my sister and me [01:27.32]All dressed up and bow-tied and cute as could be [01:32.59]We found ourselves leaning on opposite knees [01:36.93]Of a man with a rather large nose [01:42.07]A smelly cigar in the one hand he held [01:46.91]A signature hat made of floppy gray felt [01:52.92]He scooped us both up in his arms as he knelt [01:57.95]And he tickled me right through my suit [02:03.98]All the performers who came there to play [02:08.48]Jimmy Durante and young Danny Kaye [02:15.07]"They'd hang from the rafters," my father would say [02:19.67]On those magical nights at the Chez [02:56.47]So there on Mom's dresser this photograph sits [03:00.77]Of Durante and Debbie and David as kids [03:05.86]Before life got tricky, good God how it did [03:10.81]And we scattered like leaves in the wind [03:16.03]Dad stayed in Chicago, Mom moved to L.A. [03:20.90]Deborah's in Portland and I'm day to day [03:27.45]And the memories and miles seem so far away [03:32.49]From those innocent nights at the Chez [03:38.87]So here's to the family, God bless every one [03:43.38]Though the memories and moments were not always fun [03:50.00]Somehow we survived them and learned to move on [03:55.26]Forgiving what nobody knew [04:00.63]All the performers who came there to play [04:05.18]Sophie Tucker, Nat King Cole, Maurice Chevalier [04:12.42]And struggling young families finding their way [04:17.67]Through those magical nights [04:20.68]Those innocent nights, those magical nights [04:29.01]At the Chez [05:04.94]