SMOKE DREAMS OF YOU
Gibson / De Grevill

as rec by Thomas "Fats" Waller June 13th 1939 London

also rec by Adelaide Hall w Thomas "Fats" Waller '38


Watchin' smoke rise,
Clouding my eyes,
I see your face forming out of the blue.
Sad and lonely, all on my own,
With smoke dreams of you.

In reverie,
Sweet memory
Takes me again to the days that we knew.
We were happy, now I'm alone,
With smoke dreams of you.

In the twilight gloom
Of my lonely room,
I light a cigarette.
First a glow that's warm,
Then the ashes form,
Just like a vanished love I can't forget.

Paradise lost,
At what a cost,
There's no escape in the things that I do.
I'll be haunted all my life through
With smoke dreams of you.

Paradise lost,
At what a cost,
There's no escape in the things that I do.
Yes, I'll be haunted all my life through
With smoke dreams, smoke dreams of you.





(Contributed by Peter Akers - August 2009)