PRELUDE TO A KISS
(Duke Ellington / Irving Gordon / Irving Mills)

Ella Fitzgerald

Also recorded by :
Claudia Acuña; Monty Alexander; Mose Allison; Gene Ammons;
Peter Appleyard; Harry Arnold; Harold Ashby Quartet;
Svend Asmussen; Benny Bailey; Daniel Barenboim; 
Alan Barnes; Charlie Barnet & His Orch.; Kenny Barron; 
Stefano Battaglia Trio; Kathleen Battle; Germaine Bazzle;
Louie Bellson; Tony Bennett; Ginger Berglund; Mili Bermejo;
Warren Bernhardt; Andy Bey; Black Swan Quartet; Art Blakey;
Pablo Bobrowicky; Joanne Brackeen; Don Braden;
Dee Dee Bridgewater; Herbie Brock; David Bubba Brooks;
John Bunch; Kenny Burrell; Billy Butler; Billy Butterfield;
Charlie Byrd; George Cables; Tony Campise; Eddie Cano;
Arrigo Cappelletti; Rüdiger Carl; Harry Carney; 
Barbara Carroll; Benny Carter; Joe Castro; Henri Chaix;
Chestnut Brass Company; June Christy; Thomas Clausen;
Clayton-Hamilton Orch.; Stanley Cowell Trio; Ronnie Cuber;
Vic Damone; Franco D'Andrea; Danish Radio Band; 
Lew Davies; Wild Bill Davison; Buddy DeFranco; 
Phillip DeGreg; Arne Domnérus; Sam Donahue; 
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.; Kenny Drew; ... and many others.


If you hear
A song in blue
Like a flower crying
For the dew
That was my heart serenading you
My prelude to a kiss

If you hear a song that grows
From my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose
A prelude to a kiss

Though it’s just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A shubert tune with a gershwin touch

Oh how my love song gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss

(bridge)

Though it’s just a simple melody
With nothing fancy
Nothing much
You could turn it to a symphony
A shubert tune with a gershwin touch

Oh how my love song so gently cries
For the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss