By Cole Porter
Date: 30 April 2000
Night and Day
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 show'r 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
'Til you let me spend my life
making love to you,
Day and night,
Night and day.
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