Night and Day

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:06pm

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 sum'r 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 sun

Whether near 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
Till you let me spent my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day


Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter


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[bwayballerina]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:08pm

I thought I recognized those lyrics... It's Cole Porter!
Wasn't this song in Delovely?

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:10pm

Wasn't this song in Delovely?

Yes. John Barrowman performed it, if I remember correctly.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:11pm

You bet it was in DE-LOVELY--it was sung by John Barrowman and Kevin Kline.


It was originaly in the Fred Astaire stage show THE GAY DIVORCE, filmed as the Astaire/Rogers movie THE GAY DIVORCEE--which TCM will air on 8/15.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:13pm

Unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:13pm

Thanks for the heads-up on The Gay Divorcee, M_E. I haven't seen it in years and will make sure to set my TiVo.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:14pm

THE GAY DIVORCEE is my 2nd Favorite Astaire/Rogers film, after SWING TIME.


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