Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Black Moonlight (12-27-50), artist - Anita O'Day. Album song Complete Jazz Series 1950 - 1952, in the genre
Date of issue: 26.04.2009
Record label: Complete Jazz Series
Song language: English
Black Moonlight (12-27-50) |
Lost in the shuffle, I’ve drifted an' strayed |
Bruised by the city, bewildered, betrayed |
With a heart heavy laden with faltering strides |
I have come to the bridge, to the line that divides! |
What am I doing up here in a daze |
As I gaze at the cold river bed? |
Why do I ask myself, «Shall I go back |
When I seem to be going ahead?» |
To black moonlight! |
Where everything reflects your colour |
Darkness that is endless |
Nights that leave me friendless. |
.. blue! |
Black moonlight! |
You make the lights of Harlem duller |
Just like me you’re faded, jaded and degraded. |
.. too! |
Why must you send. |
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Ebony moonbeams, depressing, distressing. |
. |
Like shadows of love that are gone? |
Where will it end? |
Will it spread on to the starlight, the sunlight |
And darken each promise of dawn? |
Black moonlight! |
I’ve lost all power to resist you |
Madly, I await you, even though I hate you |
Black, black moonlight! |
Music by Arthur Johnston |