The Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison

The Windmills of Your Mind
Music written by: Michel Legrand
Lyrics written by: Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman


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Lyrics:
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!

Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!

Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly? Was it something that you said?
Lovers walking along a shore and leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song
Half remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair!
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!

Singers:
1. Noel Harrison 1968 2. George Benson October 1968 3. Grady Tate 1968 4. Merrill Womach 1968 5. Dorothy Ashby March 1, 1969 6. Vanilla Fudge March 1969 7. Jimmie Rodgers [1] March 1969 8. Petula Clark April 1969 9. José Feliciano June 1969 10. Skeeter Davis August 1969 11. Billy Vaughn 1969 12. Ginette Reno 1969 13. The Anita Kerr Singers 1969 14. John Davidson 1969 15. The Sandpipers 1969 16. George Wright 1969 17. Julius Wechter & The Baja Marimba Band 1969 18. Ray Conniff and The Singers 1969 19. Mel Tormé 1969 20. Ed Ames 1969 21. Gloria Loring 1969 22. Patricia Cahill 1969 23. Johnny Mathis 1969 24. Dusty Springfield (billboard adult contemporary) 1969 25. Jim Nabors August 1970 26. Billy Paul 1970 27. Barbara Lewis 1970 28. Kim Weston 1970 29. Jack Jones 1971 30. Nina [3] 1971 31. John Rowles 1971 32. Val Doonican 1972 33. The King's Singers 1972 34. Edward Woodward 1972 35. The Paul Mitchell Trio 1973 36. Michael Longo 1973 37. Marek & Vacek 1973 38. Maureen McGovern 1975 39. The Colourfield July 1984 40. Paul Mauriat 1984 41. Elaine Paige 1984 42. Virna Lindt 1985 43. Swing Out Sister July 1989 44. Nana Mouskouri 1993 45. Ned Spurlock 1993 46. Jeri Brown 1996 47. Mark Murphy with the Louis VanDyke Trio 1996 48. Mathilde Santing November 1997 49. The Adventures Of Parsley 1997 50. Laura Fygi 1997 51. Neil Diamond October 26, 1998 52. Toots Thielemans & Johnny Mathis 1998 53. Sting September 1, 1999 54. Rita Ellis Hammer 1999 55. Janet Planet April 11, 2000 56. Janet Seidel 2000 57. Abbey Lincoln 2000 58. Mary Foster Conklin September 2001 59. Emily Saxe 2001 60. Carla Helmbrecht 2001 61. Jane McDonald 2001 62. Becky July 2003 63. Carmen Lundy October 21, 2003 64. Leslie Uggams October 2003 65. The Vindictives 2003 66. Mark Trevorrow February 23, 2004 67. Alison Moyet September 6, 2004 68. Peter Jöback, Göteborgs Symfoniker November 10, 2004 69. Kiki & Herb 2004 70. Dominic Alldis 2004 71. Voice Trek 2005 72. Rigmor Gustafsson January 2006 73. Peter Grant April 2006 74. Connie Evingson & The Hot Club of Sweden 2006 75. Jacintha Septembe  18, 2007 76. Tina Arena December 2007 77. Laďa Kerndl, Tereza Kerndlová 2007 78. Matthew Ford 2007 79. Charito August 20, 2008 80. Dianne Reeves 2008 81. Parenthetical Girls 2008 82. Take 6 2008 83. Susan Wong May 2009 84. Vassilikos December 4, 2009 85. Daniel Boaventura 2009 86. Sharleen Spiteri March 1, 2010 87. Paul Motian with Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan, Petra Haden March 11, 2011 88. Barbra Streisand August 23, 2011 89. Stephanie Rearick September 20, 2011 90. Melissa Errico October 18, 2011 91. Sinne Eeg November 26, 2012 92. Le Bang Bang March 22, 2013 93. Nicki Parrott April 17, 2013 94. The Idea of North August 16, 2013 95. Jacqui Naylor 2013 96. Gill Manly 2013 97. David Sanborn with Randy Crawford 2015 98. Liza Pulman March 18, 2016

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