Porter NIGHT AND DAY

 “NIGHT AND DAY”
From Gay Divorce (1932)
LYRICS BY COLE PORTER
(Music by Cole Porter)

    (Verse)
  1  Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
  2  When the jungle shadows fall.
  3  Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
  4  As it stands against the wall.
  5  Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
  6  When the summer shower is through.
  7  So a voice within me keeps repeating
  9  “You, you, you.”

    (Refrain)
  1  Night and day, you are the one--
  2  Only you, ‘neath the moon or under the sun.
  3  Whether near to me or afar,
  4  No matter, darling, where you are,
  5  I think of you night and day.
  6  Day and night why is it so
  7  That this longing for you
  8  Follows wherever I go.
  9  In the roaring traffic’s boom
10  In the silence of my lonely room
11  I think of you night and day.
12  Night and day under the hide of me
13  There's an oh such a hungry yearning
14  Burning inside of me.
15  And this torment won’t be through
16  ‘Til you let me spend my life making love to you
17  Day and night, night and day.