Midnight Sun

Music by Sonny Burke & Lionel Hampton, 1947
Lyrics 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;

      Bb9      Bb      Cdim    Edim       Bb
Each star it's own au - ro - ra bor - e - al - is,

Gm7                Bbm7    Gdim
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.


A7 D9       D      F#m7    Fdim       D9     
I can't explain the silver rain that found me --

D6/9   Bm7-5   Dm7       G6    Dm6 G9
Or was that a moonlight veil?

    Em    B+    Cm7        F      Cm7    F
The music of the u - ni - verse around me,

Em      B+     Cm7          F      Cm7    F
Or was that a night - in - gale?

    Bb9       Bb        Cdim      Edim       Bb
And then your arms mir - ac - u - lous - ly found me,

Gm7                Bbm7       Gdim
Sud - den - ly the sky turned pale --

Edim  A7  DM7  F#m7  G  A7    A7+5  DM7
 I  could see       the Mid - night Sun.


Bridge:

G    Am7  D9   D7/9    G
Was there ever such a night?

G/F#    F#m7     B7         Cdim     E  
It's a thrill I still don't quite believe;

    E    E6  AM7  A    E 
But af - ter you were gone,
Em          B+       Em7     Em6     A7
There was still the stardust on my sleeve.


A7    D9      D     F#m7   Fdim   D9     
The flame of it may dwindle to an ember,

D6/9    Bm7-5   Dm7       G6    Dm6 G9
And the stars forget to shine,

    C9      C       CM7  CM7/6     CM7
And we may see the meadow in  De - cem - ber,

Em      B+       Cm7           F      Cm7    F
I - cy white and crys - tal - line,

   Bb9      Bb      Cdim       Edim       Bb
But oh my dar - ling al - ways I'll re - mem - ber

Gm7                 Bbm7     Gdim
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."



 
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