PLAY, FIDDLE PLAY
(Arthur Altman / Jack Lawrence / Emery Deutsch)

Arthur Tracy
Also recorded by : Kenny Clarke; Sam Donahue; Fast Eddie Erickson;
Erroll Garner; Dizzy Gillespie; Matt Glaser; Marian McPartland;
Ray Noble; David Pell; Slam Stewart.


Now the gypsy band rest their caravan
Where I hear concealed the song
Dusky magic falls, gypsy music calls
Oft to lovers one by one.

A lover strums his fiddle while he hums his little song
Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm.
Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm.

Play, fiddler play, play my loved one a melody
Sing to my love while the stars swing above
Play, fiddle play, sing my loved one a rhapsody
Play on the strings of her heart

The campfires are gleaming as red as the sun
And my heart keeps dreaming, just dreaming of one
So softly, croon while the moon with our two hearts in harmony
Play, fiddle play to my love.
(Instrumental break)

Croon while the moon with our two hearts in harmony
Play, fiddle play to my love.



(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)