Favorite Songs

[stickmaker]

I love the movie, and I love the song independently. That's appropriate, since the song is actually several years older.

Yet, many people don't know the entire song. Even when sung as a performance, rather than as part of _Casablanca_ singers often omit the first part. So here's the entire set of lyrics:

http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Casablanca/astimegoesby-lyrics.htm

Enjoy.

Comments

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

I know the entire song, due to some research I did several years ago, and was amused by the intro verses. Have things gotten less hectic in the last eighty years?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

It made the NPR list of the hundred most important American songs of the 20th Century:

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html

Just scroll down a bit. Lots of interesting info, including how it came to be used in the movie.