NIGHT AND DAY

Ella Fitzgerald

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


Day and night, night and day, 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


Day and night, night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning

Burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Until you let me spend my life making love to you


Day and night, night and day


Cole Porter