Billie Holiday Discography   Lyrics

Solitude (1934)

lyrics by  Eddie DeLange & Irving Mills

music by Duke Ellington 

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1941 MT 151 Complete in Columbia v.7 6 3'12"

In my solitude you'll haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you'll taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

(bridge)

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1941 LR 12 Private Recording   1'55"

Introducing Billie as "our Trouville Star"
(poor sound quality)

In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
…
(recording is cut)

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1947 MT 195 Complete in Decca v.2 3 3'12"

In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

(Very small bridge)

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love


rec date type # discography tk rec time
1947 AT 195a Complete in Decca v.2 2 3'08"

In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

(Very small bridge)

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1952 MT 226 Complete in Verve v.1 25 3'29"

In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

I sit in my chair
Filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love

 

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