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| At the Bandshell, 1985 |
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LEE CHARLES KELLEY'S SONGS
Some might ask, If you're a professional dog trainer, why advertise yourself as a songwriter?
I started training dogs in 1987 but I wrote my first song when I was five. (Okay, it wasn't any good, but still...) I've also had some modest success: I played the Troubador in 1975, wrote the title song for an independent film in 1976, and I've gotten positive feedback from Carly Simon, rocker Ric Derringer, jazz diva Tierney Sutton, and Broadway composer Charles Strouse.
I also co-wrote the musical It's Only Money (with composer David Forrest), produced at the Mad River Playhouse in Waitsfield, Vermont in 1997.
I've kept my songwriting on the back burner for a long time, but I just started my own music publishing company -- West Sixty Ninth Street Music -- and I'm now starting to market my songs.
I am a proud member of ASCAP. You can hear songs, reviews, news, and more at WestSixtyNinthStreetMusic.
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How quickly night falls
on cold canyon walls
as I walk through quiet streets alone.
Yet deep in my heart
I never will part
from the sweetest memory I own.
To you it might not seem
like much at all
yet every night I dream
and I recall...
...the last time you came to New York.
October filled the air.
And we were both aware
that time is but a bittersweet caprice.
A rainstorm chased the day inside.
We ran into The Met
and it was lovely yet
your smile is still my fav'rite masterpiece.
We talked of things in Georgia
and about your mom and dad.
You said your marriage ended badly.
I sort of sighed and nodded sadly
although I wasn't sad.
We walked through the leaves in Central Park.
We had a dinner date
atop the Empire State
and made a wish on all the stars below
that somewhere, in another life,
you'll never say goodbye
so I won't have to cry
each time you tell me that you've got to go.
(musical interlude)
"Well, it's been good to see you, what a lot of fun we had. Oh, by the way, I love you madly." You sort of sighed and nodded sadly. But were you really sad? I miss you, I miss you, since you left New York. Well, what did I expect? When two hearts disconnect there's bound to be a little torsion and torque. Loving you's a lovely pastime. I hope that this won't be the last time you come to New York. Words & Music © 1996 by Lee Charles Kelley
West Sixty Ninth Street Music (ASCAP)
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| New York on a Rainy Day, 1950s |
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Some folks fear the weather man.
They don't like to get wet.
I once feared the weatherman
until the day we met
under an awning
in the warm summer rain.
I'd just missed my bus, you just
got off the train.
We talked and laughed till skies grew clear above.
In a week or two we two were deep in love.
And although we parted
while the springtime was new,
when I hear raindrops fall I
still think of you.
And I wear a secret smile I can't explain,
except to say that I love New York in the rain.
Words & Music © 2010 by Lee Charles Kelley
West Sixty Ninth Street Music (ASCAP)
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The time it seems so short since we were groomed and brided.
Now the fam'ly court says we're to be divided.
And as the dust all clears
I try to take defeat
right on the chin.
I’m not in tears,
but oh I’m incomplete, for
part of me will always love you.
Part of me will always care.
And when he becomes a memory
reach out to me, I'll be right there.
Near or far, it doesn’t matter
no matter where you are
that’s where my heart shall be.
For there’s a part of you,
deep in the heart of you,
that keeps shining through
the heart of me.
You will always be a part of me.
Words and Music © 1984 by LEE CHARLES KELLEY
West Sixty Ninth Street Music (ASCAP)
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