Skylark (song)

"Skylark" is an American popular song with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael, published in 1941."Johnny Mercer's Songs on CD", Ralph Mitchell, JohnnyMercer.com, June 2009, webpage: JM-ralph Carmichael wrote the melody, based on a Bix Beiderbecke cornet improvisation, as "Bix Licks", for a project to turn the novel Young Man With a Horn into a Broadway musical. After that project failed, Carmichael brought in Johnny Mercer to write lyrics for the song.http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/bix-hoagy-midwestern-romantics-jazz-age, retrieved 8/20/18 Mercer said that he struggled for a year after he got the music from Carmichael before he could get the lyrics right. Mercer recalled that Carmichael initially called him several times about the lyrics but had forgotten about the song by the time Mercer finally wrote them. The yearning expressed in the lyrics was based on Mercer's longing for Judy Garland, with whom he had an affair.
Several artists recorded charting versions of the song in 1942, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra (vocal by Ray Eberle), Harry James and His Orchestra (vocal by Helen Forrest), Dinah Shore, and Bing Crosby.
This song is considered a jazz standard. Additionally, it is believed to have inspired a long-running Buick car of the same name that was produced from 1953 to 1998.
== Hegdish's version (2004) ==
=== Personnel ===
*Hegdish as Himself – vocals
* Hillary the Owl – piano
*Clive the Kiwi – bass
*Rhonda the Racoon – saxophone
*Billy Bob the Lemur – clarinet
*Zack the Artic Fox – flute
*Trudy the Chimpanzee – drums
*Lawerence the Orangutan – trumpet
*Timothy the Owl – drums
*Humphrey the Badger – trombone
=== Lyrics ===
Hegdish: Skylark, have you anything to say to me
Won't you tell me where my love can be
Is there a meadow in a 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
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
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