Flashback Friday-Once Upon a Time

Jay McShann 
January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006 

*First of all, I had to go back and edit brainless moments in my writing yesterday.  I think the lack of sleep is beginning to catch up with me.  SO, if you saw my stupid mistakes, please, pray for me to start sleeping. I pulled up my blog and was like "Goodness, Britt!"  Ugh.  I slept for 6 hours last night, so I was able to catch "pallet" versus "palate".  Smacking my head.

The song I am talking about today may in fact be the saddest song ever to have been recorded, but it's very pretty and nice.  I heard it years ago in "Hanging Up".  I was recently talking about it with a friend, which prompted me to share the link today.  The beautiful tune is called "Once Upon a Time" by Jay McShann..  McShann was an important figure in swing/jazz history.

http://youtu.be/rjNo8y5PwtE

Here are the lyrics:

Once upon a time 
a girl with moonlight in her eyes 
Put her hand in mine 
she said she loved me so 
that was once upon a time 
very long ago 

Once upon a hill 
we sat beneath a willow tree 
Counting all the stars 
and waiting for the dawn 
so once upon a time, 
now the tree is gone 

How the breeze rustled through her hair 
How we always laughed as though tomorrow was there 
We were young 
didn't have a care 
So where, oh where did it go? 

Once upon a time 
the world was sweeter than we knew 
and everything was ours, 
how happy we were then 
So once upon a time 
never comes again 

How the breeze rustled through her hair 
How we always laughed as though tomorrow wasn't there 
We were young
didn't have a care 
So where did it go? 

Once upon a time 
the world was sweeter than we knew 
Everything was ours, 
how happy we were then 
So once upon a time 
never comes again