Notes:Introductory verses rarely recorded (this is from Harry Connick Jr's

"25" album, not

Ella's!)





Lyrics:

[Introductory verses:]

And now the purple dusk of twilight time

Steals across the meadows of my heart

High up in the sky the little moon starts to

climb

Always reminding me that we're apart

You wandered down the lane and far away

Leaving me a song that will not die

Love is now the stardust of yesterday

The music of the years gone by



Sometimes I wonder why I spend

a lonely night dreaming of a song

The melody haunts my reverie,

and I am once again with you

When our love was new

and each kiss an inspiration

But that was long ago,

now my consolation is in the stardust of a song.





Beside a garden wall,

when stars are bright,

you are in my arms

The nightingale tells his fairy tale

Of paradise where roses grew

Though I dream in vain,

in my heart it will remain

My stardust melody,

The memory of love's refrain