Sunday, July 1, 2012

Images and Words 165 ~ The Year I was Born.

Images And Words this week is thanks to Anders,
The Year I was Born.
The year I was born there was a very popular song playing on the old radiogram turntable by The Great Nat King Cole.

Maybe you know it and can sing it too?

Mona Lisa.

Mona lisa, mona lisa, men have named you
You’re so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only ’cause you’re lonely they have blamed you? 
For that mona lisa strangeness in your smile? 

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa? 
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? 
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa? 
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art? 

<instrumental interlude>

Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa? 
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? 
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa? 
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art? 

Mona lisa, mona lisa


                                                         

28 comments:

  1. I don't know it but I like his songs. ciao Millie

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  2. One of those songs that mum liked.

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  3. How well I remember the song....Anyone lucky enough to grow up in the 50's/60's knows life seemed simpler and safer then!
    wonderful presentation, Milli!
    thanks for dropping by

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  4. Funny but last night I was hearing a commercial in the back ground of oldies and moldies. I had to laugh, cause I knew the words to all of the songs. Sheesh! What Collectibles we are.

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  5. Oh...Milli Lisa is so pretty! Are you real? :)
    This is the first time I hear this lovely song. So sweetly melancholic.

    http://awakingdreams.multiply.com/journal/item/374/Images-Words-The-Year-I-Was-Born

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  6. I really like his voice and this song ,among many others, of his.

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  7. lol is that your face on the Mona Lisa? lol love it!
    Thanx for visiting me, in the bath lol...

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  8. This was my year too, but I'm keeping my face off the Mona Lisa!

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  9. LOL come on let me make you a Mona too!!!

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  10. It is my humble attempt to become a Mona Lisa Lookalike Lyn.
    You are so cute in your bath.

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  11. He is an icon Keith. So many hit songs to his name.

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  12. I think it is a very fondly remembered song for many people Fatos.

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  13. LOL yes we are Randall. We collect memories and songs from our beginning to our end.

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  14. An absolute truth Linda. We children were gone for hours playing in the scrub or riding our bikes and no one had ever worry about our well being.
    A sad indictment for today's world is that we can not trust easily the people around us.

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  15. True Belita as with many of the oldies.

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  16. Anything by this man is great and for you it must be that particular year.
    Around 1950?

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  17. You make a beautiful Mona Lisa.
    I
    Ike this song by Conway Twitty too.
    Hope to get one posted but vacation tomorrow.
    July4th

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  18. How ironic and coincidental.....Happy Birthday dearest ~ Mona Mills ~

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