Midnight Sun
Words by Johnny Mercer & Music by Sonny Burke & Lionel Hampton
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Your lips were like a red and ru - by chal-ice, warm - er than the
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sum-mer night; The clouds were like an a-la-bas-ter pal-ace ris-ing to a
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Each starits own au-ro-ra bo-re - a-lis; sud-den-ly you
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held me tight,—_ 1 could see the mid-night sun,—____. 1
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can’t ex-plain the sil-ver rain that found me, or wasthat a moon-lit — veil?. The
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mu-sic of the u - ni-versea-round me, or wasthat a night - in -gale?. Ano
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then your arms mi-ra-cu-lous - ly found me, sud-den-ly the sky turned pale,
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| could see the mid-night | sun.— Was there such a night, it’s a
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thrill 1 still don’t quite be - lieve, But —af-ter you were gone, there was
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still some star-dust on my sleeve. The flame of it may dwin-dle to an
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em-ber, and thestarsfor-get to shine, And we may see the mea-dow in De-
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mid -night — sun.— Your midnight sun.
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