Poor Butterfly

Lyrics by: John Golden

Music by: Raymond Hubbell

With Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Arranged by: Billy May

Label: Reprise Records

Recorded: December 12, 1967

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Poor Butterfly, 'neath the blossoms waiting

Poor Butterfly, for she loved him so

The moments pass into hours

The hours pass into years, and as she smiles through her tears

She murmurs low, the moon and I know that he'll be faithful

I'm sure he'll come back by and by

But if he don't come back, I just must die, poor Butterfly

(Repeat, then modulate and repeat again)