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"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year"
from the film Christmas Holiday
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
"It Might As Well Be Spring"
from the film State Fair
music by Richard Rodgers
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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January and February were never so empty and grey.
Tragically I feel like crying without you my darling, I’m dying.
But let’s rather put it this way:
Spring will be a little late this year
A little late arriving in my lonely world over here
For you have left me and where is our April [Incomprehensible] old?
You have left me and winter continues cold
As if to say spring will be a little slow to start
A little slow reviving that music it made in my heart
Yes, time heals all things so I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a little late this year
Spring will be a little late this year
A little slow reviving that music it made in my heart
Yes, time heals all things so I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a little late, a little late this year

The things I used to like, I don’t like anymore
I want a lot of other things I’ve never had before.
It’s just like Mother says: I sit around and mope.
Pretending I am wonderful, and knowing I’m a dope.
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string
I'd say that I had spring fever, but I know it isn't spring
I am starry eyed and vaguely discontented, like a nightingale without a song to sing
O why should I have spring fever, when it isn't even spring
I keep wishing I were someone else, walking down a strange new street
And hearing words that I've never heard from a girl I've yet to meet
I'm as busy as spider spinning daydreams, spinning spinning daydreams
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way, that it might as well be spring
It might as well be spring.

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from I Wish It So, released November 6, 2021
Susan Derry, vocalist; Howard Breitbart, pianist/arranger
Warren Freeman, producer
Matt Conner executive producer
Blaine Misner, engineer
VibeckeDPhoto, photography
Recorded at Cue Studios, Falls Church VA
May 2021

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Susan Derry brightens any venue she steps into. With a mix of vulnerability and strength, charm and good humor, Susan brings authenticity to her work as an actor and cabaret artist. An ingenue who is at once grown-up and ageless, she dazzles as leading lady, singer and storyteller, and newly-minted recording artist. ... more

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