THE SONG IS ENDED (BUT THE MELODY LINGERS ON)
(Irving Berlin)

Ruth Etting - 1928
'Whispering' Jack Smith - 1928
The Mills Brothers - 1933
Louis Armstrong - 1938
Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm - 1948
Les Brown & His Orch. - 1949
Nat King Cole - 1951
Dinah Washington - 1959
Ella Fitzgerald - 1958
Jeri Southern - 1959
Connie Francis - 1959
Dakota Staton - 1959
Frank Sinatra - 1962
Mose Allison - 1962
Sam Cooke - 1969
Tony Bennett - 1987

Also recorded by: Dinah Shore; Annette Hanshaw; 
Benny Goodman; Dick Haymes; Humphrey Lyttelton; 
Eddie Condon; Richard Tauber; Elisabeth Welch; 
Mel Tormé; Sue Raney: ....... and many others.


My thoughts go back to a heavenly dance
A moment of bliss we spent
Our hearts were filled with a song of romance
As into the night we went
And sang to our hearts' content

The song is ended
But the melody lingers on
You and the song are gone
But the melody lingers on

The night was splendid
And the melody seemed to say
"Summer will pass away
Take your happiness while you may"

There 'neath the light of the moon
We sang a love song that ended too soon

The moon descended
And I found with the break of dawn
You and the song had gone



(Contributed by Shelley Botka)