I Had A Dove

Went down to the dance,
Sat down by the wall,
Invited to dance
By no one at all.

The couples danced by
So charming and gay
But nobody once
Looked over my way.

So awfully sad,
Dissatisfied
And hurt so bad,
I almost cried.

Imagine my frustration 
With no invitation to dance

Head high, standing tall,
Who else could I be
But belle of the ball
Who likes what they see.

And then in my ear
Someone said to me,
Wallflower, my dear
How come you can't see?

They couldn't care less,
They're not impressed.
As you might guess,
You're in excess.

Imagine my frustration 
With no invitation to dance

A smile to the crowd,
Tiptoe and alert,
The band blew and bowed
But nixed on the flirt.

A voice said to me,
Wallflower, my dear
You're sweet as can be
But how come you're here?

They couldn't care less
About your dress,
You're in a mess
And in excess.

Imagine my frustration 
With no invitation to dance.

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My melody to Strayhorn's lyric
First draft - recorded in park
I came upon the lyric reading David Hand's amazingly wonderful biography of Billy Strayhorn called 'Lush Life'. He notes that Ellington heard the Gerald Wilson tune 'When I'm feeling Kinda Blue', and asked Strayhorn to write a new lyric. It was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1965.
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https://billystrayhorn.com/ 
If you are familiar with the jazz composition, “Take the A Train,” then you know something about not only Duke Ellington, but also Billy “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn, its composer. Strayhorn joined Ellington’s band in 1939, at the age of twenty four. Ellington liked what he saw in Billy and took this shy, talented pianist under his wings. Neither one was sure what Strayhorn’s function in the band would be, but their musical talents had attracted each other. By the end of the year Strayhorn had become essential to the Duke Ellington Band; arranging, composing, sitting-in at the piano. Billy made a rapid and almost complete assimilation of Ellington’s style and technique. It was difficult to discern where one’s style ended and the other’s began. The results of the Ellington-Strayhorn collaboration brought much joy to the jazz world…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (Nov 29,1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life".

Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States. His family soon moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, his mother's family came from Hillsborough, North Carolina, and she sent him there to protect him from his father's drunken sprees...In an interview, Strayhorn said that his grandmother was his primary influence during the first ten years of his life. He became interested in music while living with her, playing hymns on her piano, and playing records on her Victrola record player...

After seeing Duke Ellington play in Pittsburgh in 1933, Strayhorn met him in December 1938 after an Ellington performance there... Strayhorn worked for Ellington for the next quarter century as an arranger, composer, occasional pianist and collaborator until his early death from cancer. As Ellington described him, "Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine.”...

Ellington announced to his sister Ruth and son Mercer Ellington that Strayhorn "is staying with us." Through Mercer, Strayhorn met his first partner, African American musician Aaron Bridgers, with whom Strayhorn lived until Bridgers moved to Paris in 1947.

Strayhorn was openly gay. He participated in many civil rights causes. As a committed friend to Martin Luther King Jr., he arranged and conducted "King Fit the Battle of Alabama'" for the Ellington Orchestra's 'My People' in 1963...dedicated to King.

Imagine My Frustration - Billy Strayhorn (in song)

"Coastal Isle"

Down by the birds on coastal isle
the perfume of mist on salty waves
sinking amber floors between my toes

The smell of mint, skybeaks frequent rocks
of white in the dark, ambient night

Everything is in a shadow mime
and I, a lonesome ghost

I haunt the scenes of picnic greens;
butterflies once nestled in my hair
a tangled mane, I unfold with you

In silence we lay on amber shores
beside the mint-green tide
while the waves rolled by and by
my heart ached like a heavy rope—

Down by the birds on coastal isle
mint green waves on salty shores
amber floors sink underfoot

Water makes dreamers of us all.

Coastal Isle

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Lith K - More Than (Southmind Edit)

I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,—
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight
Still with our lives our love restore
In death's despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?

Sudden Light

Your favorite covers by Diego Ramirez, Luciano Callado & Arturo Ramirez, piano solos, trio & a quartet in the style of Stephen Grappelli. Enjoy a fusion of flavors from hot jazz, beautiful ballads, show tunes, pop, Mexican & Brazilian classics to gospel!

JAZZONIA

The Very Thought of You

☆This is my version of the Dragonborn Song from the epic game Skyrim ☆

Watch the Video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m-UmQjLReA

Lyrics by Malukah
Arrangement by Jade Edana (inspired from the original Soundtrack by Jeremy Soule)

Skyrim (Theme - Cover)

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/do-not-stand-by-my-grave-and-weep-by-mary-elizabeth-frye

Music: Hans Zimmer - Day one

Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

This the English adaptation of a wise saying from the Persian poet Rumi. I have pasted a printout of this in my room's wall. I look up and recite this whenever I find myself getting anxious about something. It appeases me.

Great Secret By Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats

For the best experience, 
-  Click on the song's picture for words and notes.
-  in Album/Playlist/Spotlight, first click on the big picture to the left, then on the new page click the track title. Really, it's worth the effort :) 

With Blake you will see his painting too. Each picture is in dialogue with the words (not just illustrating them).

Bards have combined music & poetry from earliest times. Many poets continue the connection, not least William Blake. But often their melodies are lost or neglected.

Imagine My Frustration - Billy Strayhorn (in song)

Ian

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