(IN MY) SOLITUDE

In my solitude you haunt me
with reveries of days gone by.
In my solitude you taunt me
with memories that never die.

I sit in my chair
filled with despair.
Nobody could be so sad.
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
send back my love.


(Composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills)
(Vocal Ivie Anderson)
(Recorded Feb 14,1940 at ARC (Columbia) session, NYC)
(Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Mood Indigo 78rpm, Columbia 1940)