Green Eyes

Jimmy Dorsey

English lyrics by E. Rivera and Eddie Woods

Music by Nilo Menendez



#1 week of August 30, 1941 through September 20, 1941



(male voice)

Well, Green Eyes with their soft lights,

Your eyes that promise sweet nights,

Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine.

In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you,

Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime.



Those cool and limpid Green Eyes -

A pool wherein my love lies.

So deep that in my searching for happiness

I fear that they will ever haunt me,

All through my life they'll taunt me.

But will they ever want me?

Green Eyes, make my dreams come true.



(Female voice)

Well, Green Eyes with the soft lights,

And eyes that promise sweet nights,

Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine.

In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you,

Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime.



Those cool and limpid Green Eyes -

A pool wherein my love lies.

So deep that in my searching for happiness

I fear that they will ever haunt me,

All through my life they'll taunt me.

But will they ever want me?

Green Eyes, I love you.



Transcribed by Samantha Stevens

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