Duke Ellington
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Caravan
Night and stars above that shine so bright
The myst'ry of
their fading light
That shines upon our caravan
Sleep upon my shoulder as we creep
Across the sand so I may
keep
The mem'ry of our caravan
This is so exciting
You are so inviting
Resting in my
arms
As I thrill to the magic charms
Of you beside me here beneath the blue
My dream of love is
coming true
Within our desert caravan!
Daydream
Daydream, why do you haunt me so
Deep in a rosy glow
The
face of my love you show
Daydream, I walk along on air
Building a castle there
For me and my love to share
Don't know the time, lordy
I'm in a daze
Sun in the sky,
while I moon around, feeling, hazy
Daydream, don't break my reverie
Until I find that he,
Is daydreaming just like me
Daydreams, why do you haunt me so
While I'm in this rosy
glow
Bring back my love
Bring back my love
Bring back my love
To me
In A Mellow Tone
In a mellow tone
Feeling fancy free
And I'm not alone
I've got company
Everything's ok
The live long day
With this mellow song
I can't go wrong
In a mellow tone
That's the way to live
If you mope and
groan
Something's gotta give
Just go your way
And laugh and play
There's joy unknown
In a mellow tone
In a mellow tone
In a mellow tone
Feeling fancy free
And I'm not alone
I've got company
Everything's ok
The live long day
With this mellow song
I can't go wrong
In a mellow tone
That's the way to live
If you mope and
groan
Something's gotta give
Just go your way
And laugh and play
There's joy unknown
In a mellow tone
In a mellow tone
In a mellow tone
In A Sentimental Mood
In a sentimental mood
I can see the stars come through my
room
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom
On the wings of every kiss
Drifts a melody so strange and sweet
In this
sentimental bliss
You make my paradise complete
Rose petals seem to fall
It's all I could dream to call you mine
My heart's a lighter thing
Since
you made this night a thing divine
In a sentimental mood
I'm within a
world so heavenly
For I never dreamt that you'd be loving sentimental me
Love You Madly
Love you madly
right or wrong
sounds like a lyric of a
song
But since it's so
I thought you oughta know
I love you, love you
madly
Better fish are in the sea
Is not the theory for me
And
that's for sure
Just like I said before
I love you, love you madly
If you could see the happy you and me
I dream about so
proudly
You'd know the breath of spring
That makes me sing
My love song
so loudly
Good things come to those who wait
So just relax and wait
for fate
To let me see the day you'll say to me
I love you, love you madly
But since it's so
I thought you oughta know
I love you,
madly
And that's for sure
Just like I said before
I love you,
love you madly
If you could see the happy you and me
I dream about so
proudly
You'd know the breath of spring
That makes me sing
My love song
so loudly
To let me see the day you'll say to me
I love you madly
Love you madly
right or wrong
sounds like a lyric of a
song
But since it's so
I thought you oughta know
I love you, madly
Better fish are in the sea
Is not the theory for me
And
that's for sure
Just like I said before
I love you, madly
If you could see the happy you and me
I dream about so
proudly
You'd know the breath of spring
That makes me sing
My love song
so loudly
Good things come to those who wait
So just relax and wait
for fate
To let me see the day you'll say to me
I love you, love you madly
I love you
Love you madly
I love you madly
Oh, I got
big eyes for you, baby
Prelude To A Kiss
If you hear
A song in blue
Like a flower crying
For
the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss
If you hear a song that grows
From my tender sentimental
woes
That was my heart trying to compose
A prelude to a kiss
Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a
Gershwin touch
Oh how my love song gently cries
For the tenderness within
your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
Though it's just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a
Gershwin touch
Oh how my love song so gently cries
For the tenderness
within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
Rocks In My Bed
My heart is heavy as lead
Because the blues has done spread
Rocks in my bed
Of all the people I see
Why do they pick on poor me
and
put rocks in my bed
All night long I weep
So how can I sleep
with rocks in
my bed
There's only two kinds of people
I can't understand
There's only two kinds of people
I can't understand
That's a deceitful
woman
And a hard faced man
She took my man away
And ain't goin' bring him back
She
took my man away
And ain't goin' bring him back
She's lower than a snake
down in a wagon track
I got rocks in my bed
I got rocks in my bed
Rocks in my
bed
I got rocks in my bed
Under-loved, over-fed
My man's gone, so instead
I got
rocks in my bed
Under-loved, over-fed
My man's gone, so instead
I got
rocks in my bed
Satin Doll
Cigarette holder which wigs me
over her shoulder, she digs
me.
Out cattin' that satin doll.
Baby, shall we go out skippin ?
Careful, amigo, you're flippin',
speaks Latin that satin doll.
She's
nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be.
I'll give it a whirl but I
ain't for no girl catching me,
swich-e-rooney.
Telephone numbers well you
know,
doing my rhumbas with uno
and that'n my satin doll.
Solitude
In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die
I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
Nobody could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit
and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad
In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love
Alternative lyric:
In my solitude you
haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With
memories that never die
I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad
In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love
Perdido
Perdido,
I look for my heart
It's perdido
I lost it
way down in Torito
The day the fiesta started
Bolero,
I swayed as they played a Bolero
I kissed 'neath
a listing sombrero
And that's when my heart departed
High, was the sun when I held him close
Low, was the moon
when we said, "Adios"
Perdido
My heart ever since is Perdido
I know I must go
to Torito
To find what I lost Perdido
High, was the sun when I held him close
Low, was the moon
when we said, "Adios"
Perdido
Goodnight perdido
I lost perdido
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László Zoltán 2012
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