Stranger In Paradise



-Artist: Tony Bennett from "The Very Thought Of You"-Columbia AL?0758

-peak Billboard position # 2 in 1954

-competing versions charted by The Four Aces (#3), Tony Martin (#10) and

-Gordon MacRae (#29)

-from the musical "Kismet"-based on Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances"

-Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest



Take my hand

I'm a stranger in paradise

All lost in a wonderland

A stranger in paradise

If I stand starry-eyed

That's the danger in paradise

For mortals who stand beside an angel like you



I saw your face and I ascended

Out of the commonplace into the rare

Somewhere in space I hang suspended

Until I know there's a chance that you care



Won't you answer this fervent prayer

Of a stranger in paradise?

Don't send me in dark despair

From all that I hunger for

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BRBut open your angel's arms

BRTo this stranger in paradise

BRAnd tell him that he need be

BRA stranger no more

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BRTranscribed by Robin Hood

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BRThese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above

BRand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet

BRmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.

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