THIS IS NEW

fr "Lady In The Dark" 1941 musical New York
Kurt Weill (m) Ira Gershwin (l)  1941

as rec by Dee Dee Bridgewater  November 2001 Paris


This is new,
I was merely existing!
This is new,
Now I'm living at last!
Head to toe,
You've got me so I'm spellbound!
I don't know
If I'm heaven- or hell-bound!

This is new,
Is it Venus insisting
That I'm through
With the shadowy past?
I am hurled
Up to another world,
A world where life is bliss,
And this is new!

This is new,
I was merely existing!
This is new,
Now I'm living at last!
Head to toe,
You've got me so I'm spellbound!
I don't know
If I'm heaven- or hell-bound!

This is new,
Is it Venus insisting
That I'm through
With this shadowy past?
I am hurled
Up to another world,
Where life is bliss,
And this is new!

This is new,
Is it Venus insisting
That I'm through
With the shadowy past?
I am hurled
Up to another world,
Where life is bliss,
And this is new!
I am hurled
Up to another world,
A world where life is bliss,
And this is new!
(scat)



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2012)