Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes by Johnny Cash
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes by Johnny Cash

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes

Johnny Cash * Track #9 On Bootleg Vol. 1: Personal File

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Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes by Johnny Cash

Release Date
Tue May 23 2006
Performed by
Johnny Cash
Produced by
Johnny Cash
Writed by
Ben Jonson

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Lyrics

[Intro]
The reason I want to sing this next song is because it has so many and such a strong memory for me. I can see me when I was 17 years old standing in the end of the Dyess High School gymnasium at the senior class graduation. I was a junior at the time. The next year, I graduated. But I was a junior and they called on me to sing a "special", they called it, for the graduation, for the commencement exercises, so... I'm sorry, but I don't remember my piano player's name. It was a schoolteacher. She played the piano and I sang this song. This was- I guess this was when I was looking for myself. But I never forgot that because it was one of my first public singing occasions. And I've sung this song, mainly, to myself ever since I was 17 years old because of those memories. I suppose this song is Elizabethan. The words sound like the King James version of the Bible

[Chorus]
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine
Or leave a kiss within the cup
And I'll not ask for wine
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine
But might I of Jove's nectar sip
I would not change for thine

[Verse]
I sent thee late a rosy wreath
Not so much honoring thee
As giving it a hope that there
It could not withered be
But thou thereon didst only breathe
And sentst it back to me
Since when it grows and smells, I swear
Not of itself, but thee

[Chorus]
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine
Or leave a kiss within the cup
And I'll not ask for wine
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine
But might I of Jove's nectar sip
I would not change for thine

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Q&A

Who wrote Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes's ?

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes was written by Ben Jonson.

Who produced Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes's ?

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes was produced by Johnny Cash.

When did Johnny Cash release Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes?

Johnny Cash released Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes on Tue May 23 2006.

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