| Let’s build a stairway to the stars
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| The lovely stairway to the stars
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| It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you
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| We’ll hear the sound of violins
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| Out yonder where the blue begins
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| The moon will guide us
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| As we go drifting along
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| Can’t we sail away on a lazy daisy petal
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| Over the rim of the hills?
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| Can’t we sail away on a little dream
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| And settle high on the crest of a thrill?
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| Let’s build a stairway to the stars
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| And climb that stairway to the stars
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| It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you
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| Can’t we sail away on a little dream
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| And settle high on the crest of a thrill?
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| Let’s build a stairway to the stars
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| And climb that stairway to the stars
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| It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you
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| It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you
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| Ella Fitzgerald, there’s only one of those
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| Thank you so much
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| I love you, thank you
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| Ella, for a long time, kind of rested in a cult category
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| Until in about 1946 or '47
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| She came out with a record that caught everyone’s attention
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| Caught everyone’s fancy
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| And from that record on, she became a megastar
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| The record was «Lady Be Good»
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| And it’s the first record I ever heard that somebody sang scat on from
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| beginning to end
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| I’d never heard a record like that before
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| It was a groundbreaker and it taught me a lot
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| And tonight, we great reverential love and tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald
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| We’re gonna haul out «Lady Be Good» and do it for you pretty much like she did |