The Song of the memory

I can hardly find this song in youtube or whatsoever..It seems that I have to pay just to listen to the whole song.. This is the one that I still remember taught by my primary school teacher when I was 10.


THE SHOEMAKER'S SERENADE

(Edward Lisbona / Joe Lubin)

Lou Preager & His Orch. (vocal: Eileen Orchard) - 1947

Roberto Inglez & His Orch. - 1947

Johnny Denis & His Ranchers - 1947

Radio revellers - 1949

He'll mend your shoes for you, he'll mend your blues for you

With clicks of the tricks of the trade

For as he taps away your heart will start to sway

To the shoemaker's serenade

Tick-a-tick-a-tee, tick-a-tick-a-tay

Tick-a-tick-a-tick tick tick tick tick tick tick-a-tick-a-tay

The things that gent can do to any bent old shoe

No matter how tattered and frayed

And as he sews your seams he mends your broken dreams

With his shoemaker's serenade

Tick-a-tick-a-tee, tick-a-tick-a-tay

Tick-a-tick-a-tick tick tick tick tick tick tick-a-tick-a-tay

I'd like to state his work is great

And if you wait he won't take long

And you can watch the children of the neighbourhood

Gaily dancing to his merry song

If you're along the street and hear a song that's sweet

It's not any penny arcade

It's just a cobbler gay who shoos your blues away

With the shoemaker serenade

Tick-a-tick-a-tee, tick-a-tick-a-tay

Tick-a-tick-a-tick tick tick tick tick tick tick-a-tick-a-tay

(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)