TASTE OF TEARS
(Teddy Bart / Paul Wyatt (m & l) )

Johnny Mathis 1964 (with Don Costa’s Orchestra)



From the seed of a lifetime
To the hardest years
A man knows the bitter
And sweet taste of tears.

The first love was a green love
It was free and sincere
It ended in heartbreak
And the young taste of tears.

Then came the fools love
Of love’s wasted years
Time changes nothing
But the taste of your tears.

You pray for a true love
And soon she appears
To share joy and sadness
And the sweet taste of tears...
And the sweet taste of tears.

NOTES:

Johnny Mathis has sold over 350 million records confirmed by Guinness World
Records and was the undisputed king of the romantic Fifties ‘make out ‘ music.



(Transcribed by David Story - November 2013)