COLE PORTER - EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

COLE PORTER

SONGWRITER: COLE PORTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

LABEL: EMI

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1956

"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" is a song with lyrics and music by Cole Porter and published by Chappell & Company. It was introduced by Nan Wynn in 1944 in Billy Rose's musical revue Seven Lively Arts. The song has since become a jazz standard after gaining popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many artists have replaced the apostrophe in "ev'ry" with an "e".

The lyrics celebrate how very happy the singer is when in the company of their beloved, but suffering equally whenever they separate. Describing it by analogy as a musical "change from major to minor", Porter begins with an A♭ major chord and ends with an A♭ minor one, matching the mood of the music to the words.

Cole Albert Porter (9 de junho de 1891 — died 15 de outubro de 1964 in Santa Monica, California) foi um músico e compositor americano de Peru, Indiana.

Seu trabalho inclui as comédias musicais Kiss Me, Kate (1948 - baseada na peça de Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen e Anything Goes, bem como as músicas "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You" e "I've Got You Under My Skin". Ele é notório pelas letras sofisticadas (às vezes vulgares), ritmos inteligentes e formas complexas. Ele é um dos maiores contribuidores do Great American Songbook.

Every time we say goodbye

I die a little

Every time we say goodbye

I wonder why a little

Why the Gods above me

Who must be in the know?

Think so little to me

They allow you to go

When you're near

there's such an air

of Spring about it

I can hear a lark somewhere

begin to sing about it

There’s no love song finer

But how strange the change

From major to minor

Every time we say goodbye