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Star Dust
Words & Music by Mitchell Parish & Hoagy Carmichael, 1929
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1943
Featured in the 1993 movie "Sleepless In Seattle"
G9 G G+7 G C9
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
B7 E E-9 E E7
Steals across the meadows of my heart.
Am Cm G G/F# Em
High up in the sky the little stars climb,
F# F#7 D Fdim D7
Always reminding me that we're a - part.
G9 G G+7 G C9
You wandered down the lane and far away.
B7 E E-9 E E7
Leaving me a song that will not die.
Am Cm G G/F# Em
Love is now the stardust of yes-ter-day,
D7 Gdim Am7 Cdim G Cm G
The music of the years gone by.
Melody:
G+7 G G9 CM7 C Am C F
Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night
F7 G G/F# Em Bm7-5 E7
Dreaming of a song. The mel-o-dy haunts my reverie,
Am7 E7 Fdim Am7 Fdim Am
And I am once again with you.
D Fdim D7 D+ G6 D+ G6
When our love was new, and each kiss an in-spi-ra-tion,
A9 G A7 G
But that was long ago; now my consolation
D7 Am7 C D7 D+
Is in the stardust of a song.
CM7 C Am C F7
Beside a garden wall when stars are bright,
Fm7/9 G G/F# Em Bm7-5 E7
You are in my arms; the nightingale tells his fairy tale
Am7 E7 Fdim Am7 Fdim Am
Of par-a-dise where ro-ses grew.
D A7 D7 G G/F# Em B+ F#7 B7
Though I dream in vain, in my heart it will re-main:
C C/B E7 Am7
My stardust mel-o-dy
D7 Cdim Cdim(IV) G Am7 alt Cm G6
the memory of love's re - frain.
I have seen this song referred to as the best song ever written and given Cole's rendering of this song, there is no way I would disagree with that assessment -- and I simply cannot believe that it ranked no higher than #79 in its 1957 release, but I can't find proof to the contrary. The song was recorded constantly over the years, and with great success, but a huge number of performers, including:
- Artist: Nat King Cole
- peak Billboard position #79 in 1957
- originally written as "Star Dust" in 1927
- charted in 1930 by Irving Mills (#20)
- charted in 1931 by Isham Jones (#1), Bing Crosby (#5), Louis Armstrong (#16), Wayne King (#17), and Lee Sims (#20).
- charted in 1935 by Jimmie Lunceford (#10).
- charted in 1936 by Benny Goodman (#2) and Tommy Dorsey (#8).
- charted in 1939 by Sammy Kaye (#16).
- charted in 1941 by Artie Shaw (#2), Tommy Dorsey (#7), and Glenn Miller (#20).
- charted in 1943 by Baron Elliot (#18) and Tommy Dorsey (#23).
- charted in 1957 by Billy Ward and His Dominoes featuring Jackie Wilson (#12).
- charted in 1962 by Frank Sinatra (#98)
- charted in 1964 by Nino Temple and April Stevens (#32).
(Historical information from Lyrics World)
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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