PASSION FLOWER
Billy Strayhorn

as rec by Nancy Wilson w Billy May & his Orch  1959

also rec by Ella Fitzgerald w Duke Ellington & his Orch  '65


Passion flower,
Sent from the blue above,
You're a flower of love.
Passion flower,
Free as a star in flight,
Laughing through the night.

Your lips keep taunting me,
Not wanting me,
Yet haunting me
Each day!

Stay with me,
My passion flower,
You are all I'm dreaming of,
Passion flower of love!

Passion flower of love!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - November 2009)