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A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
Lyrics: Eric Maschwitz
Music: Manning Sherwin
That cer-tain night,
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The night we met,
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There was ma-gic a-broad in the air.
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There were an-gels
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Din-ing at the Ritz,
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And a night-in-gale sang
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in Berk-‘ley Square.
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I may be right, I may be wrong,
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But I'm per-fect-ly will-ing to swear
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That when you turned
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and smiled at me,
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A night-in’gale sang
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in Berk-‘ley Square.
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The moon that lin-gered
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ov-er Lon-don town
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Poor puz-zled moon, he wore a frown.
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How could he know
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we two were so in love?
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The whole darn world
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seemed up-side down.
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The streets of town were
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paved with stars
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It was such a ro-man-tic af-fair.
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And as we kissed and said good-night,
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A night-in-gale sang
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in Berk-‘ley Square.
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How strange it was,
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how sweet and strange,
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there was nev-er a dream to com-pare.
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With that ha-zy cra-zy night we met
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When a night-in-gale sang
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In Bark-‘ley Square
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This heart of mine beats loud and fast
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Like a mer-ry-go-round in a fair
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For we were danc-ing cheek to cheek
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And a night-in-gale sang
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In Berk-‘ley Square
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When dawn came steal-ing up,
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all gold and blue
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To in-ter-rupt our ren-dez-vous,
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I still re-mem-ber how
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you smiled and said,
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"Was that a dream? Or was it true?"
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Our home-ward step was just as light
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As the tap danc-ing feet of As-taire,
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And like an e-cho far a- way
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A night-in-gale sang
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in Berk-‘ley Square.
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I know ‘cause I was there
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That night in Berk-‘ley Square
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Nat King Cole’s version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86_ZXpJo5c&feature=related
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