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Midnight Sun
Music by Sonny Burke & Lionel Hampton, 1947Lyrics by Johnny Mercer added later*
Recorded by June Christy, 1953
A7 D9 D F#m7 Fdim D9
Your lips were like a red and ru - by chal - ice
D6/9 Bm7-5 Dm7 G6 Dm6 G9
War - mer than the sum - mer night,
C9 C CM7 CM7/6 CM7
The clouds were like an al - a - bas - ter pal - ace
Em B+ Cm7 F Cm7 F
Ri - sing to a snow - y height;
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Each star it's own au - ro - ra bor - e - al - is,
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Sud - den - ly you held me tight;
A7 Edim A7 DM7 F#m7 G A7 A7+5 DM7
And I could see the Mid - night Sun.
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I can't explain the silver rain that found me --
D6/9 Bm7-5 Dm7 G6 Dm6 G9
Or was that a moonlight veil?
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The music of the u - ni - verse around 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.
Bridge:
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Was there ever such a night?
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It's a thrill I still don't quite believe;
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But af - ter you were gone,
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There was still the stardust on my sleeve.
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The flame of it may dwindle to an ember,
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And the stars forget to shine,
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And we may see the meadow 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 I'll re - mem - ber
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When your lips were close to mine,
A7 Em7 A7 A7+5 DM7 F#m7 G A7+5 D6
And we saw the Mid - night Sun.
*Requested by recent visitor Marco Oloarte Pirrone. I've run into some minor confusion of exactly when Mercer added the lyrics to this Hampton & Burke composition. Sources I've found suggest they were added in 1954, but the recording on which this transcription is based was made in December of 1953, which obviously calls the 1954 date into question.
You can call this Lesson Number Eighty-Four on the subject of "Don't Trust Everthing You Find On Internet Websites -- Including This One."