Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your toes

And then someday, they may recall
We were not too young at all.

Love is what you make it
Take my heart, but please don't break it.

When you want a true lover
Send for me
Send for me.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your toes

Are there any other kinds of reasons why you would love her?

Why's he telling her she's unforgettable?Are they about to split up?Amicably maybe?Perhaps they're already split up and he's simply reminiscing?If that's so why would he say she thinks he's unforgettable too?He also talks of her being unforgettable near or far-A sign a split has or will indeed take place?You see the whole problem lies with that word Unforgettable.You simply wouldn't call your lover that in the normal,steady flow of an ongoing relationship,which I'm assuming Nat is on about here.He also spouts the silly line-Like a song of love that clings to me-Talk about a number you'd prefer to FORGET.

In gereral, I've always liked this song. But in these lines is a case of using a word inaccurately in order to make a rhyme. The whole song generally is about "they" (perhaps the parents of the young lovers) thinking the lovers were too young to know the meaning of love. In these lines, the singer contemplates that maybe someday "they" will finally recognize or acknowledge (for the first time) that the lovers in question really weren't too young. Trouble is, that isn't what "recall" means. "Recall" means to recollect something that one was previously aware of, not to recognize or acknowledge something for the first time.

No doubt the most fabled highway route in U.S. History, U.S. Route 66 stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. But now U.S. 66 per se no longer exists, nor does any other single route number traverse the same legendary route. To travel the same general corridor on today's modern highways means following Interstate 55 from Chicago to St. Louis, then Interstate 44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma City, then Interstate 40 from there to Barstow, California, then Interstate 15 and/or 215 from there to San Bernardino or Ontario, and finally Interstate 10 from there on to Los Angeles. That combination of routes could scarcely be the basis ot a similarly catchy song!

"Unforgettable" was writtin by Irving Gordon, and Cole took it to #12 in 1951 - 52. It also charted again for the Dick Hyman Trio in 1954 (#29), Dinah Washington in 1959 (#17) and then posthumously for Nat and his daughter Natalie in 1991.

Nat King Cole's classic Route 66 (written by Bobby Troup) is a classic jazz # from the early 1950's (although originally released by the King Cole Trio in the late 1940's). It details an old highway that somewhat still exist (in spots) that was the main way people traveled by car from Chicago to Los Angeles before the interstate system that started in the late 1950's by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Highlighted in the tune is Chicago, Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Missouri, Joplin, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Texas, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, Winona, Arizona, Kingsman, California, Barstow, California and San Bernardino, California and the state of California itself. Although the route barely exist anymore, the song itself has remained a classic to today and apparently internationally liked. The song itself spawned a TV show of the late 1950's/early 1960's. In the late 1980's, English pop/rock band Depeche Mode would do a remake of "Route 66" and make it a very popular new wave/alternative tune.

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