YOU FASCINATE ME
(Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh)

as recorded by Blossom Dearie (vocal & piano)
with Kenny Burrell (guitar) Ray Brown (bass)
and Ed Thigpen (drums) 1959 (released 1961)


I have a feeling that, beneath a little halo on your noble head,
There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know!
You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed,
You fascinate me so!

I feel like Christopher Columbus when I'm near enough to contemplate
The sweet geography descending from your eyebrow to your toe.
The possibilities are are more than I can possibly enumerate,
That's why you fascinate me so!

So sermonise and preach to me,
Make your sanctimonious little speech to me!

But oh my darling, you forgive the inability to concentrate,
I think I'm dealing with a powder keg that's just about to blow!
Will the end result deflate me,
Or will you annihilate me?
You fascinate me so!

So sermonise and preach to me,
Make your sanctimonious little speech to me!

But oh my darling, you forgive the inability to concentrate,
I think I'm dealing with a powder keg that's just about to blow!
Will the end result deflate me,
Or will you annihilate me?
You aggravate me,
You irritate me,
You fascinate me so!





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - June 2014)