NIGHT AND DAY  (1932)

Cole Porter 1891-1964

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall,

Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall,

Like the drip, drip, drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through,

So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you -

Night and day, you are the one,

Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Whether near to me or far,

It's no matter darling where you are,

I think of you, night and day.

Day and night, why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go,

In the roaring traffic's boom,

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you. night and day, 

Night and day, under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me,

And its torment won't be through

Till you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day.

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