{"id":10347,"date":"2016-07-19T17:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2016-07-19T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:32:04","slug":"sweeter-than-springtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/","title":{"rendered":"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">We are already through a rather cold winter of 2016 and it will soon be &#8220;Spring&#8221; again. Hundreds of songs\u00a0dedicated to this &#8220;beautiful season&#8221; have been written and enjoyed by music-lovers all over the World. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">Strauss wrote about it, Chopin wrote about it and being\u00a0essentially a &#8220;love-song&#8221; I decided that a Lankan Composer should write one too. Written &amp; dedicated many years ago, to a &#8220;few&#8221; girl-friends of my own past, here are the lyrics. Hope my elanka readers enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re sweeter than Springtime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">And as lovely as a rose<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re an angel from heaven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">That&#8217;s why I love you, I suppose<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You do these funny things to me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">And, as everybody knows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900;\">You&#8217;re sweeter than Springtime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900;\">And as lovely as a rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re sweeter than Springtime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">And as.lovely, in the Fall<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re an angel from heaven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re my Sri Lankan &#8220;living doll&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You do these funny things to me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">And, as everybody knows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">You&#8217;re sweeter than Springtime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">And as lovely as a rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff9900; line-height: 30px;\">Lyrics &amp; Music by Desmond (Kelly from Colombo).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are already through a rather cold winter of 2016 and it will soon be &#8220;Spring&#8221; again. 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Strauss wrote about it, Chopin wrote about it and being\u00a0essentially a &#8220;love-song&#8221; I decided that a Lankan Composer should write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[807],"class_list":{"0":"post-10347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-sweeter-than-springtime"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-19T17:32:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/1e0438dae29dfe87d52bbc17203fb6d9\"},\"headline\":\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-19T17:32:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\",\"name\":\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-19T17:32:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sweeter-than-springtime\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Articles\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/category\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"SWEETER THAN SPRINGTIME\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\",\"name\":\"eLanka\",\"description\":\"eLanka - 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