TRACK TALK #420 Skylark

SKYLARK
ALBUM : Fallen Angels (2016)
Recorded : Février-Mars 2014
Released : 20 Mai 2016

Un standard du jazz écrit par Johnny Mercer et composé par Hoagy Carmichael en 1941.
Elle fut notamment reprise par Bing Crosby, Aretha Franklin et Bette Midler.
Aucune performance live à ce jour.



Lyrics
Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?

Skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane

And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music, faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon, sad as a gypsy serenading the moon

Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?