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Billie on Holiday

Claude Aendenboom 1970 (St-Niklaas)

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BILLIE ON HOLIDAY

Careless summerboy
could you be mine ?

Who loves you anyway? Me, myself and I...?

The way you look tonight...breaks
my foolish heart.

I can 't give you anything but love !

So the mood that I'm in, is yours and mine....
twenty-four hours a day.

But you let me down

Please don't talk about me when I'm gone

Because this was my last love affair. I'm already flying back home

To a nightclub where my stormy blues belong.....
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Written on November 22, 2016

Submitted by c.aendenboom on October 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A XB X XX X BA X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 449
Words 98
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1
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