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Dillinger's brief career has been the subject of several films. The latest is director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," a beautifully made picture that sets out to portray the famed outlaw as both a hard-bitten criminal and a passionate romantic, and is undone in the attempt. Johnny Depp brings effortless star power to the role of Dillinger, and he's a charmer in the scenes in which his character is pursuing an on-the-run, soul-mate love affair with a Chicago coat-check girl named Billie Frechette (the superb Marion Cotillard). The sequence in which Dillinger first meets Billie, in a nightclub that's all shadow and glow, with Diana Krall's luminous rendition of "Bye Bye Blackbird" whispering off the soundtrack (and Krall lip-synching her own performance on the bandstand), is a glorious showpiece. Krall's rendition of the jazz classic will also appear on the soundtrack for the movie.
Here are the lyrics to the standard "Bye Bye Blackbird."
Bye Bye Blackbird.
Gonna pack up all my care and woe,
Here I go swingin' low,
Bye bye blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar's sweet, so is she,
Bye bye blackbird.
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.
make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Blackbird, bye bye.
I’m gonna pack up all my cares and woe,
Here I go singin' low,
Bye bye blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar is sweet, so is he,
Bye bye blackbird.
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye.
We don't have Diana to sing, but here is Julie London's very similar rendition.
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