JOHNNY MATHIS - HOUSE OF FLOWERS

HOUSE OF FLOWERS

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITER: HYMAN ARLUCK & TRUMAN STRECKFUS

COUNTRY: USA

ALBUM: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE

LABEL: MERCURY

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1964

The Wonderful World of Make Believe is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on July 10, 1964, and described by Greg Adams of Allmusic, who wrote, "The theme is fantasy, from imaginary locations ('Camelot', 'Shangri-La') to fanciful yearnings ('I'm Always Chasing Rainbows', 'When You Wish Upon a Star') to vague, idealized realms ('Beyond the Sea', 'Beyond the Blue Horizon')."

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated July 25, 1964, and reached number 75 during its 10 weeks there.

This project was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums in a two-CD set by Sony Music Entertainment on August 28, 2012, the other album being Mathis's previous studio LP, Tender Is the Night. The Wonderful World of Make Believe was also included in Sony's Mathis box set The Complete Global Albums Collection, which was released on November 17, 2014.

My house is made of flowers

The warm winds carpet the floor

Whenever theres spring showers

I open the rainbow door

The frog, the toad, the turtle

All make my home their home

My curtains are crape mottle

And the firefly flies neath my dome

I’ve never had money

And I’ll never need none

The moon is my lamp

And my clock is the sun

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My homes a home

For all those things

What grows, what flies, what sings

If it all sounds tempting

And it do you entice

I show to the heavens

That it do make it nice

Wont you come live with me

I’d come live with me

If I were you, if I were you.