MY INSPIRATION IS YOU
(Music: Horatio Nicholls / Lyrics: Edgar Leslie)
Annette Hanshaw - 1928
Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orch. (vocal: Lewis James) - 1928
Jack Hylton & His Orch. (vocal: Hylton, Rignold, D'Amato) - 1928
Piccadilly Dance Band - 1928
Alfredo & His Orch. - 1928
Ciro's Club Dance Band - 1928
Layton & Johnstone - 1928
Ramon Newton - 1928
Leslie Saunders & His Orch. - 1928
Eric Randolph - 1928
Arnold Johnson & His Paramount Hotel Orch. - 1928
Talbot O'Farrell - 1929
We all need someone we can lean upon
To give us guidance when we're woebegone
We're all like ships lost on the ocean
Until the light breaks through the dawn
Just like a sunflower lives for a sunshower
My inspiration is you
Just like the joy after hearing a child's laughter
My inspiration is you
You're like the dream of every poet
You stand supreme, how glad I am to know it
Just like a real sweetheart craves an ideal sweetheart
My inspiration is you
The moon lends romance to the lovers' lane
The stars weave silver links in memory's chain
The birds and bees look to the blossoms
Without such things life would be in vain
Just like a sunflower lives for a sunshower
My inspiration is you
Just like the joy after hearing a child's laughter
My inspiration is you
You're like the dream of every poet
You stand supreme, how glad I am to know it
Just like a real sweetheart craves an ideal sweetheart
My inspiration is you
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As recorded by ANNETTE HANSHAW:
We all need someone we can lean upon
To give us guidance when we're woebegone
We're all like ships lost on the ocean
Until the light breaks through the dawn
Just like a sunflower lives for a sunshower
My inspiration is you
Just like the joy after hearing a child's laughter
My inspiration is you
You're like the dream of every poet
You stand supreme, how glad I am to know it
Just like a real sweetheart craves an ideal sweetheart
My inspiration is you
You seem so far, yet you're beside me
Just like a star, you're heaven sent to guide me
And like the hope born in the break of each morning
My inspiration is you-hoo-oo, you-hoo-oo, you
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - February 2018)
