BLUE GARDENIA
Lester Lee (m) S K "Bob" Russell (l)  1953

as rec by Nat "King" Cole  1953

alsi rec by Dinah Washington  '55  '62


Blue Gardenia,
Now I'm alone with you,
And I am also blue,
She has tossed us aside;

And like you, gardenia,
Once I was near her heart;
After thec teardrops start
Where are teardrops to hide?

I lived for an hour,
What more can I tell?
Love bloomed like a flower,
Then the petals fell!

Blue gardenia,
Thrown to a passing breeze,
But pressed in my book of memories.

I lived for an hour,
What more can I tell?
Love bloomed like a flower,
Then the petals fell!

Blue gardenia,
Thrown to a passing breeze,
But pressed in my book of memories.





(Contributed by Peter Akers - January 2010)