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Solitude
Words & Music by Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills & Duke Ellington, 1934Recorded by Billie Holiday, 1944
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In my solitude you haunt me
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With reveries of days gone by;
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In my solitude you taunt me
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With memories that never die.
Bridge:
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I sit in my chair, filled with despair --
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There's no one could be so sad.
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With gloom ev'rywhere, I sit and I stare;
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I know that I'll soon go mad.
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In my solitude, I'm pray - ing
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Dear Lord above, send back my love.
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