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Midnight Sun Words by Johnny Mercer & Music by Sonny Burke & Lionel Hampton Slowly Omg? mp Your lips were like a red and ru - by chal-ice, warm - er than the Fodain Bema? sum-mer night; The clouds were like an a-la-bas-ter pal-ace ris-ing to a pod Abe? Each starits own au-ro-ra bo-re - a-lis; sud-den-ly you snow - y_ height; pean Cma? An? Dn! G89 held me tight,—_ 1 could see the mid-night sun,—____. 1 Cmg? Fadi can’t ex-plain the sil-ver rain that found me, or wasthat a moon-lit — veil?. The Bema? Ebon mu-sic of the u - ni-versea-round me, or wasthat a night - in -gale?. Ano Ama? pea din then your arms mi-ra-cu-lous - ly found me, sud-den-ly the sky turned pale, 164, ihitgh fence ematanl opp see Cmg? An? Fbn?®5)B7 Ema?” Es | could see the mid-night | sun.— Was there such a night, it’s a En? AB Aug Dmg? D? Dmg? Dé Dmg? Dé thrill 1 still don’t quite be - lieve, But —af-ter you were gone, there was Dn? G3 Gag En? Eb? Dni! DP74 Cg? still some star-dust on my sleeve. The flame of it may dwin-dle to an Faddiin BPmg? em-ber, and thestarsfor-get to shine, And we may see the mea-dow in De- body Ama? = cem-ber, I - cy white and crys -tal- line. But, oh, my dar-ling al -ways ll re pean = mem -ber, when your lips were close to mine, ______ And we saw the In I2. ma? ce Dm? Gish Cmg? peat 6% a mid -night — sun.— Your midnight sun. 165,

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