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Prelude To A Kiss

music: Duke Ellington - lyrics: Irving Gordon and Irving Mills (1938)
saxophone: Peter Fuglsang; arangement: Magnus Lindgren
in duet with Rigmor Gustafsson

in pre-release appearances or as a demo

• song from the concert in Copenhagen (Danmark) in February 2009 with Danish Radio Big Band, conducted by Michael Bojesen

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lyrics

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Live in Copenhagen February 27. 2009: [R:] = Rigmor Gustafsson singing, [S:] = Silje singing:

[R:] If you hear
A song in blue
Like a flower crying
For the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss

[S:] If you hear a song that grows
From my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose
A prelude to a kiss

[R:] Though its just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a Gershwin touch

[S:] 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
[Silje was singing these two sentences slightly different compared with this actual text]

(bridge)

[R:] Though its just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A Shubert tune with a Gershwin touch

[S:] Oh how my love song so gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
[R+S:] A prelude to a kiss