When October Goes
Oct 31st, 2006 at 8:37 pm by Susie
This is such a beautiful song. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Barry Manilow:
And when October goes
The snow begins to fly
Above the smokey roofs
I watch the planes go by
The children running home
Beneath a twilight sky
Oh, for the fun of them
When I was one of them
And when October goes
The same old dream appears
And you are in my arms
To share the happy years
I turn my head away
To hide the helpless tears
Oh how I hate to see October go
I should be over it now, I know
It doesn’t matter much
How old I grow
I hate to see October go.
This is indeed a very beautiful haunting song, but it’s the other way around. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics and Barry Manilow wrote the music.
Oops. Brain fart.
Susie… you had it right!
That’s what I thought, because Johnny Mercer’s been dead a while and the song’s been around for a while, too.
I watched Barry’s “Manilow Live!” DVD just tonight and he actually says that Johnny Mercer’s wife (after hs death) gave Barry a folder full of unpublished lyrics. One of them was the lyrics to “October”. Barry wrote the music.