Songwriter: Gary Brooker Keith Reid
Producer: Allen Toussaint
We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
Whe we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
Would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
At the moment my eyes were open
They might just as well have been closed
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
And turned cartwheels across the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
Whe we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
Would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
At the moment my eyes were open
They might just as well have been closed
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Luxury You Can Afford (1978)
Joe Cocker popular songs
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- You Are So Beautiful
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- I’ll Cry Instead
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (2)
- You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
- Talking Back to the Night
- Just Like a Woman
- It’s a Sin When You Love Somebody
- The Man in Me
- Edge of a Dream (Theme from ’Teachers’)
- Human Touch
- Something
- I’ll Walk in the Sunshine Again
- So Good, So Right
- Performance
- Honky Tonk Women
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- She Is My Lady
- Seven Days
- Living without Your Love
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- You and I