A SLEEPING BEE
(Harold Arlen, Truman Capote)
Recorded by:
Julie Andrews, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodney Bennett,
Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Diahann Carroll, June Christy,
Jim Cullum, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Larry Gillespie,
Johnny Hartman, Bill Henderson, Lena Horne, Dick Hyman,
Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, Morgan King,
Maureen McGovern, Marian McPartland, Jessye Norman,
Anita O’Day, Art Pepper, Oscar Peterson,
Buddy Pizzarelli, André Previn, Barbra Streisand,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Mel Tormé, John Williams,
Nancy Wilson……………and many more.
When you're in love
And you are wondering
If he really is the one
There's an ancient sign sure to tell you
If your search is over and done
Catch a bee
And if he don't sting you
Your in a spell that's just begun
It's a guarantee till the end of time
Your true love you have won, have won
When a bee lies sleeping
In the palm of your hand
You're bewitched
And deep in love's long looked after land
Where you'll see a sun up sky
With a morning new
And where the days go laughing by
As love comes a-calling on you
Sleep on bee don't waken
Can't believe what just passed
He's mine for the taking
I am happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but he seems
Sweet golden as a crown
A sleeping bee done told me
I will walk with my feet off the ground
When my one true love
I has found
As sung by Barbra Streisand
When a bee lies sleeping
In the palm of your hand
You're bewitched
And deep in love's long looked after land
Where you'll see a sun up sky
With a morning new
And where the days go laughing by
As love comes a-calling on you
Sleep on bee don't waken
Can't believe what just passed
He's mine for the taking
I am happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but he seems
Sweet golden as a crown
A sleeping bee done told me
I will walk with my feet off the ground
When my one true love
I has found
Sleep on bee don't waken
Cannot believe what just passed
He's mine for the taking
I am happy at last
Maybe I dreams, but he seems
Golden as a crown
A sleeping bee told me
I will walk with my feet off the ground
When my one true love
I has found.
(Contributed by Bill Huntley - July 2009)
