Prelude to a Kiss
(Duke Ellington)

If you here a song in blue
like a flower crying for the dew
that was my heart serenading you
my Prelude to a Kiss. 

If you hear a song that grows
from my tender sentimental woes
that was my heart trying to compose
a prelude to a kiss. 

Though it’s just a simple melody
nothing fancy, nothing much
you could turn it to a symphony
a Schubert tune, with a Gershwin touch. 

Oh how my love song gently cries
for the tenderness within your eyes
my love is a prelude that never dies
a prelude to a kiss. 

Though it’s just a simple melody
nothing fancy, nothing much
you could turn it to a symphony
a Schubert tune, with a Gershwin touch.

My Prelude to a Kiss.