TWO CIGARETTES IN THE DARK
From the Broadway play "Kill That Story" (1934)
(Lew Pollack / Paul Francis Webster)

Gloria Grafton (Broadway Production) - 1934
Johnny Green & His Orch. (vocal: George Bouler) - 1934
Bing Crosby (with Georgie Stoll & His Orch.) - 1934
Jerry Johnson & His Orch. (vocal: Dick Robertson) - 1934
Frank Parker - 1934
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. (vocal: Kenny Sargent) - 1934
Ethel Merman (with Johnny Green's Orch.) - 1934
Jack Jackson & His Orch. (vocal: Alberta Hunter) - 1934
Lew Stone & His Band - 1934
Victor Arden (Instr.) - 1934
Skitch Henderson (Instr.) - 1949
Robert Farnon & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1954
Abbey Lincoln - 1957
Betty Carter - 1963
Mia Vermillion - 2009


Two, two cigarettes in the dark
He strikes a match 'til the spark clearly traces
One face is my sweetheart

Two, two silhouettes in a room
Almost obscured by the gloom
I was so close, yet so far apart

It happened that I stumbled in
Upon their rendezvous
I heard my sweetheart whispering
"I love you, I love you, you know that I do"

Two, two cigarettes in the dark
Gone is the flame and the spark
Leaving just regrets and two cigarettes in the dark

(Instrumental Break)

It happened that I stumbled in
Upon their rendezvous
I heard my sweetheart whisperin'
"I love you, I love you, you know that I do"

Two, two cigarettes in the dark
Gone is the flame and the spark
Leaving just regrets and two cigarettes in the dark


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2012)