Тексты песен «Ellington, Duke»

In A Sentimental Mood I can see the stars come thru my room While your loving attitude is like a flame that lights the gloom On the wings of ev'ry kiss Drift a melody so strange and sweet In this sentimental bliss you...

What good is melody, what good is music If it ain't possessin' something sweet It ain't the melody, it ain't the music There's something else that makes the tune complete It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...

Fare thee well land of cotton Cotton lisle is out of style Honey child Jump for Joy Don't you grieve little Eve All the hounds I do believe Have been killed Ain't 'cha thrilled? Jump for Joy Have you seen...

Treat me sweet and gentle When you say goodnight Just squeeze me But please don't tease me I get sentimental When you hold me tight Just squeeze me But please don't tease me Missing you since you went away...

Treat me sweet and gentle When you say goodnight Just squeeze me But please don't tease me I get sentimental When you hold me tight Just squeeze me But please don't tease me Missing you since you went away...

There is a gay Lady in blue haunting my dreams all the night thru. She seems to creep into my sleep day after day and nights without number I see her rise right under my eyes Out of blue shadows while I'm lost in...

I am LOST IN MEDITATION And my reverie Brings you back to me For in my imagination Love has lingered on As though you'd never gone. This is just a dream that cannot last When the magic of this mood has passed. So I sit...

Left bank cafe, Strollin the quays, Watching the boats on the Seine come back again. Where is that girl I met, That girl that made me get those Paris blues and wonder? Why did I have to roam? I was so much at home,...

Won't you PLEASE FORGIVE ME, darling I'm sorry, so sorry I didnt mean to break your heart Won't you please believe me darling I miss you and kiss you In ev'ry dream Since we're apart my love for you is so sincere What...

If you hear a song in blue like a flower crying for 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...

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...

In my solitude, you haunt me With reveries of days gone by In my solitude you taunt me With memories that will not die I sit in my chair, filled with despair No one can be so sad With gloom everywhere, I sit and...

I have almost ev'ry thing a human could desire, Cars and houses, bear-skin rugs to lie before my fire But there's something missing, Something isn't there, It seems I'm negver kissing the one whom I care for. I want...

Sophisticated lady Sophisticated lady Sophisticated lady Sophisticated lady Everybody knows how she got her name, yeah, yeah Shea??s a different lady with a different style She stands tall and ready like the...

They say into, our early life romance came, and in this heart of your burned a flame, A flame that flickered one day and dies away. Then, with disillusions deep in your eyes, you learned that fools in love soon grow...

You must take the 'a' train To go to Sugar hill way up in Harlem If you miss the 'a' train You'll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem Hurry, get on now, it's coming Listen to those rails a-humming All aboard,...

You must take the 'A' train To go to Sugar hill way up in Harlem If you miss the 'A' train You'll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem Hurry, get on now, it's coming Listen to those rails a-humming All...

She's a camptown tune at a barbecue, an old fashioned curt'sy And a how dee ya' do, a tintype from somebody's locket The wind and the stars and the earth But in practical terms of the pocket, Here's how I measure her...

Way down at Mister Joe's Cafe They're takin' someone far away, And if you hear a song today It's a sad tune that you'll be playin': She's leavin' and folks are feelin' so low, They're grievin' and they're consolin' poor...