To Sir With Love

Song: To Sir With Love

Artist: Lulu

Year: 1961

Album: Soundtrack of 'To Sir With Love'

Lyrics:

Those school girl days, of telling tales and biting nails are gone,

But in my mind, I know they will still live on and on,

But how do you thank someone, who has taken you from crayons to perfume?

It isn't easy, but I'll try,

If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters,

That would soar a thousand feet high,

To Sir, with Love

The time has come, for closing books and long last looks must end,

And as I leave, I know that I am leaving my best friend,

A friend who taught me right from wrong,

And weak from strong, That's a lot to learn,

What, what can I give you in return?

If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start,

But I, would rather you let me give my heart,

To Sir, with Love 

Trivia:

To Sir in Love was a sound track of a British film by the same name. It starred 'Sidney Poitier.' It was a film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by E. R. Braithwaite. This was a Billboard's single of the year in 1967, having been #1 for five weeks in the USA. However, in Lulu's native UK it was only ever a B-side to her #11 hit 'Let's Pretend.'

Don Black wrote the lyrics to this and Mark London the music. Black revealed to the Sunday Times August 10, 2008: "It's one of the very, very few songs that I've worked on where I've written the words first. Normally, I may give the composer a title or suggest a couple of lines, but I don't like to write the whole lyric first. If you write the lyric first, you tend to ramble. You want the structure there to work against it."