Engelbert Humperdinck - The way it used to be

SHE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER

El cantante británico Engelbert Humperdinck cumple hoy 85 años. En 1969 alcanzó el nº 3 en las listas británicas y logró uno de sus mayores éxitos internacionales con la canción The way it used to be, magnífica adaptación con letra inglesa de Roger Cook y Roger Greenaway de la canción italiana "Melodia", que con música de Corrado Conti y Franco Cassano y letra de Gianni Argenio, había grabado la cantante Isabella Iannetti en 1968. 

The way it used to be  (lyrics)

Lonely table just for one
In a bright and crowded room
While the music has begun
I drink to memories in the gloom 

Though the music's still the same
It has a bittersweet refrain

 

So play the song the way it used to be
Before she left and changed it all to sadness
And maybe if she's passing by the window
She will hear a love song and a melody
And even if the words are not so tender
She will always remember the way it used to be

 

Friends stop by and say hello
And I laugh and hide the pain
It's quite easy till they go
Then the song begins again

 

So play the song the way it used to be
Before she left and changed it all to sadness
And maybe if she's passing by the window
She will hear a love song and a melody
And even if the words are not so tender
She will always remember the way it used to be