QUIET NIGHTS OF QUIET STARS (CORCOVADO)
(English Words : Gene Lees / Music : Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Andy Williams - 1965


Quiet nights and quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar
Floating on the silence that surrounds us

Quiet nights and quiet dreams
Quiet walks by quiet streams
And the window lookin' on the mountains and the sea how lovely

This is where to be
Here with you so close to me
Till the final flicker of life's ember

I who was lost and lonely
Believing life was a only a bitter tragic joke
Have found with you the meaning of existence oh, my love

-instrumental interlude-

This is where to be
Here with you so close to me
Till the final flicker of life's ember

I who was lost and lonely
Believing life was a only a tragic joke
Have found with you the meaning of existence oh, my love



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QUIET NIGHTS OF QUIET STARS (Lita Roza)

as recorded by Lita Roza  
1963


Quiet nights of quiet stars,
Quiet chords on my guitar,
Floating in the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
Quiet walks by quiet streams,
Climbing hills where lovers go
To watch the world below,
How lovely!

This is where i wanna be,
Here with you so close to me
until the final flicker of life's ember.

I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was a only
A bitter tragic joke, have found with you
The meaning of existence oh, my love.

Quiet nights of quiet stars,
Quiet chords on my guitar,
Floating on the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams,
Quiet walks by quiet streams,
Climbing hills where lovers go
To watch the world below together.

This is how I want to be,
in this mood of reverie
Until the final flicker of life's ember.

My life was dull each minute,
Until I found you in it,
And all at once the quiet nights I knew
Became those quiet nights of loving you,
Of loving you,
Of loving you.



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - November 2012)