Stardust lyrics

Artist  : Jimmy Lunceford 
Song : Stardust
 


Stardust
- Artist: Nat King Cole
- peak
Billboard position #79 in 1957
- words by
Mitchell Parish and music by Hoagy
Carmichael
- originally written as "Star Dust"
in 1927
- charted in 1930 by Irving Mills
(#20)
- charted in 1931 by Isham Jones (#1),
Bing Crosby (#5), Louis Armstrong (#16)
Wayne
King (#17), and Lee Sims (#20).
- charted in
1935 by Jimmie Lunceford (#10).
- charted in
1936 by Benny Goodman (#2) and Tommy Dorsey
(#8).
- charted in 1939 by Sammy Kaye
(#16).
- charted in 1941 by Artie Shaw (#2),
Tommy Dorsey (#7), and Glenn Miller (#20).
-
charted in 1943 by Baron Elliot (#18) and Tommy
Dorsey (#23).
- charted in 1957 by Billy Ward
and His Dominoes featuring Jackie Wilson
(#12).
- charted in 1962 by Frank Sinatra
(#98)
- charted in 1964 by Nino Temple and
April Stevens (#32).

And now the purple
dusk of twilight time
Steals across the
meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the
little stars climb
Always reminding me that
we're apart

You wander down the lane and
far away
Leaving me a song that will not
die
Love is now the stardust of
yesterday
The music of the years gone
by


Sometimes I wonder why I
spend
The lonely night dreaming of a
song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am
once again with you
When our love was
new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that
was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the
stardust of a song

Beside a garden
wall
When stars are bright
You are in my
arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A
paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in
vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust
melody
The memory of love's
refrain


Transcribed by Robin Hood