WHILE THE MUSIC PLAYS ON
(Irving Mills / Lupin Fien / Emery Heim)

Doris Day

Also recorded by : Tony Bennett; Les Brown; 
Jimmy Dorsey; Eddie Reed; Anne Shelton.


Each night in some café, I'm on display
Until the dark turns into dawn
Up upon the stand singing with the band
While the music plays on

Each night is just a long and endless song
Until the last couple has gone
Vainly I'm the star singing out my heart
While the music plays on

Oh what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hid my fears singing through the tears
While the music plays on

(Orchestral Interlude)

Oh what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hid my fears singing through the tears
While the music plays on


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)

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as rec by Anne Shelton w Ambrose & his Orch


They say my voice is so appealing,
That no-one sings the blues the way I do,
But little do they know,
Their praise just hoes to show
Every word I sing rings true.

Each night in some café I'm on display
Until the dark turns into dawn.
Up upon the stand,
Singing with the band
While the music plays on.

Each night is just a long
And endless song
Until the last couple has gone.
Vainly I must start
Singing out my heart
While the music plays on

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms,
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms.

But I am not allowed
To show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone.
I must hid my fears,
Singing through the tears
While the music plays on.

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms,
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else's arms.

But I am not allowed
To show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone.
I must hid my fears,
Singing through the tears
While the music plays on



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - September 2011)