"The Girls I Never Kissed"
Writen by: Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller
Performed by: Frank Sinatra
Arranged and Conducted by: Billy May
Single produced by Reprise Records, 1986

One of the most beautiful, enduring and heart breaking songs not only of Sinatra's repetoir but of all modern music is found here. With lyrics commisoned by Sinatra, Lieber and Stoller, the men who wrote many of Elvis's bigget hits, they made a song that defines Frank Sinatra as a man. Much more than that overly cliched' "My Way" at anyrate.

The old wolf sniffs the summer breeze, and dreams about his youth,
For the sight of skirts above the knees turns his hardboiled brain to cheese.
And the scent of honey in the tree whets an old sweet tooth.

The pretty girls go strolling by, I smile at them, and heave a sigh.
And think of all the things I've missed, and all the pretty girls I've never kissed.

They smile from field of daffodils, they wave from high and windy hills,
In secret places by the sea, the girls I've never kissed still wait for me.

All the girls whose names I can't recall, their faces haunt me still,
All the pretty girls I've never kissed and never will.

The girls of spring, the girls of fall, the girls of summer most of all,
If only time did not exist, if only I could catch that boat I always missed,
I'd go back and kiss all the pretty girls I've never kissed.