Ooh, I hear laughter in the rain.

Gotta one-way ticket to the blues.

Were you the father of girls

A fool such as I that...

I love my calendar girl.

Appears at the beginning of the song and is used as backing vocals throughout.

It's basically just scat singing, but it makes the song fun to sing along with!

Anyone have the foggiest idea what he's on about? Or what he's on perhaps? Point of fact that's just for openers. Pity,babe,that our last song together sounds like the ravings of the deranged.

Don't you know how dangerous it is to go under a tree during a storm?

I'm sorry folks, but neil sedaka, for gosh sake, just does not utter the b-word in his songs like he's Eminem. That's just wrong.

My Funny Valentine

I can't remember a more lilting tune from the 1960s than this one. But the words are a desperate plea to a girlfriend not to dump him. The last line cited above is nearly an admission of the virtual inevitability of the break-up and the desperation of the singer's wishes that things were otherwise. By the way, the singer did an original "fast" version of this and then sometime later a slow "ballad" version (same lyrics both times). What I say here came mainly from thinking about the original "fast' version. But even the slow "ballad" version is not nearly so much of a downer tune-wise as the lyrics could merit.