Who Sang Skylark? George Benson feat. The Count Basie Orchestra
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Release information
Release Date: 1990-9-11
length: 5:08
producer: George Benson
membranophone: Duffy Jackson
piano: Carl "Ace" Carter
vocal: George Benson
trumpet: Mike Williams, Bob Ojeda, George Cohn and Byron Stripling
orchestra: The Count Basie Orchestra
mixer: Ed Rak and Al Schmitt
recording engineer: Al Schmitt, Peter Darmi and Elliot Scheiner
arranger: Frank Foster
bass: Cleveland Eaton
alto saxophone: Danny Turner and Dave Glasser
guitar: George Benson and Charlton Johnson
tenor saxophone: Kenny Hing and Doug Miller
trombone: Tim Williams, Mel Wanzo and Clarence Banks
additional recording engineer: Dave Russell and Jeff Toone
bass trombone: Bill Hughes
baritone saxophone: John Williams
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Lyrics
Skylark
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?
Skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane
And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music, faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon, sad as a gypsy serenading the moon
Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?
Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?
Have you anything to say to me?
Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed?
Skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane
And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music in the night?
Wonderful music, faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon, sad as a gypsy serenading the moon
Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?
Oh skylark
I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there?