Nat King Cole

Stardust(Chords)

Nat King Cole

Key: G

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	        G9      G      G7+    G         C9 
And now the purple dusk of twilight time 
 
 B7                              E     E-9    E     E7   
Steals across the meadows of my heart. 
 
 Am            Cm       G      G/F#    Em 
High up in the sky the little stars climb, 
 
 F#       F#7             D    Fdim  D7  
Always reminding me that we're  a - part. 
 
 
	G9      G        G7+      G   C9 
You wandered down the lane and far away. 
 
 B7                              E   E-9  E   E7  
Leaving me a song that will not die.  
 
 Am              Cm          G  G/F# Em 
Love is now the stardust of yes-ter-day, 
 
    D7    Gdim      Am7  Cdim  G   Cm   G 
The music  of  the years gone  by. 
 
 
Melody: 
 
G7+   G   G9 Cm7    C     Am       C         F  
Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night 
 
 F7			   G      G/F#   Em  Bm7/5-    E7 
Dreaming of a song.   The mel-o-dy haunts my reverie,               
 
   Am7    E7  Fdim        Am7    Fdim   Am 
And I am once again with you. 
 
          D  Fdim  D7           D      G6     D+  G6   
When our love was new, and each kiss an in-spi-ra-tion, 
 
     A9           G    A7           G 
But that was long ago; now my consolation  
 
D7        Am7      C    D7     D 
Is in the stardust of a song. 
 
 
   Cm7    C     Am        C            F7 
Beside a garden wall when stars are bright,  
 
Fm7/9		     G   G/F#    Em  Bm7/5-            E7 
You are in my arms; the nightingale tells his fairy tale 
 
   Am7    E7       Fdim     Am7     Fdim     Am 
Of par-a-dise where ro-ses grew. 
 
		 D   A7  D7          G    G/F# Em   B  F#7   B7 
Though I dream in vain, in my heart  it  will re-main: 
 
   C		 C/B    E7  Am7	 
My stardust mel-o-dy 
 
        D7     Cdim  Cdim(IV)   G    Am7 alt   Cm    G6 
the memory of love's   re  -  frain. 
 
 

	        

Written by Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish

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