Thanks For The Memory

Thanks for the memory

Of rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes

Motor trips and burning lips and burning toast and prunes

How lovely it was

Thanks for the memory

Of candlelight and wine, castles on the Rhine

The Parthenon, and moments on the Hudson River line

How lovely it was

Many's the time that we feasted

And many's the time that we fasted

Oh well, it was swell while it lasted

We did have fun, and no harm done

So thanks for the memory

Of crap games on the floor, nights in Singapore

You might have been a headache, but you never were a bore

I thank you so much

Thanks for the memory

Of China's funny walls, transatlantic calls

That weekend at Niagara when we hardly saw the falls

How lovely that was

Thanks for the memory

Of lunch from twelve to four, sunburn at the shore

That pair of gay pajamas that you bought and never wore

Say, by the way, what did happen to those pajamas?

Letters with sweet little secrets

That couldn't be put in a day wire

Too bad it all had to go haywire

That's life, I guess, I love your dress

Do you? Thanks for the memory

Of faults that you forgave, rainbows on a wave

And stockings in the basin when a fellow needs a shave

I thank you so much

Thanks for the memory

Of Gardens at Versailles, and beef and kidney pie

The night you worked and then came home with lipstick on your tie

How lovely that was

Thanks for the memory

Of lingerie with lace, and Pilsner by the case

And how I jumped the day you trumped my one and only ace

How lovely that was

We said goodbye with a highball

And I got as high as a steeple

But we were intelligent people

No tears, no fuss, hooray for us

Strictly entre nous, darling, how are you?

And how are all those little dreams that never did come true?

Awfully glad I met you, cheerio, tootle-oo

Thank you, thank you