Midnight Sun

MIDNIGHT SUN
By: Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer
Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall
Key: C

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Your lips were like a red and ru-by chal-ice, 
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Warm-er than the sum-mer night
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The clouds were like an al-a-bas-ter pal-ace, 
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Ris-ing to a snow-y height
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Each star its own au-ro-ra bo-re-a-lis, 
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Sud-den-ly you held me tight
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I could see the mid-night sun

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I can't ex-plain the sil-ver rain 
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that found me or was that a moon-lit veil?
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The mu-sic of the un-i-verse a-round me 
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or was that a night-in-gale?
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And then your arms mir-ac-u-lous-ly found me, 
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Sud-den-ly the sky turned pale
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I could see the mid-night sun
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Was there such a night, 
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it's a thrill I still don't quite be-lieve
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But af-ter you were gone, 
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there was still some star-dust on my sleeve
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The flame of it may dwind-le to an em-ber 
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and the stars for-get to shine
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And we may see the mea-dow in De-cem-ber, 
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I-cy white and crys-tal-line
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But oh, my dar-ling al-ways 
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I'll re-mem-ber when your lips 
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were close to mine
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And we saw the mid-night sun