Bill Oddie - These Foolish Things [RuGBgD4o6tX]

(1966) I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Series 2 Episode 6 - The Angus Prune Story

Originally written and composed by Holt Marvell and Jack Strachey respectively in 1935.

Lyrics below:

Oh will you never let me moscow victory day parade be?

Oh will you never set me free?

The ties that bound us

Are still around us

There's no escape that I can see

And still those little things remain

That bring me happiness and pain

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces

An airline ticket to romantic places

And still my heart has wings

These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment

Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant

A fair ground's painted swings

These foolish things remind me of you

You.. you came, you saw, you conquer'd me

When you did masiello that to me

I somehow knew that this had to be

The winds of March that make my heart a dancer

A telephone that rings but who's to answer?

Oh how the ghost of you clings

These foolish things remind me of you

Gardenia perfume ling'ring on a pillow

Wild strawb'ries only seven francs escroquerie a kilo

And still my heart has wings

These foolish things remind me of you

The park at evening when the bell has sounded

The "Ile de France" with all the gulls around it

The beauty that is Spring's

These foolish things remind me of you

I know, that this, was bound to be

These things have haunted me

For you entirely enchanted me (!)

The sound of midnight trains in empty stations

Silk stockings thrown aside dance invitations

Oh how the ghost of you clings

These foolish things remind me of....

You!

(I'm running out of photos of Bill from the 60s!)

(update: thank you youtube user barbarakirk3064 and chocsal for the help with the lyrics!)