IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD



In a sentimental mood

I can see the stars come through my room

while your loving attitude

is like a flame that lights the gloom.



On the wings of every kiss

drifts a melody so strange and sweet.

In this sentimental bliss

you make my paradise complete.



Rose petals seem to fall,

it's all like a dream to call you mine.

My heart's a lighter thing

since you made this night a thing divine.



In a sentimental mood

I'm within a world so heavenly

for I never dreamt that you'd

be loving sentimental me.



- Duke Ellington, Irving Mills & Manny Kurtz