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(In My ) Solitude
Music by Duke Ellington, Words by Eddie De Lange and Irving Mills
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Recorded September 12, 1934
Brunswick  6987 (B15910)

Freddy Jenkins, Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams  (trumpets)
Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol (trombones)
Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick,  Harry Carney (reeds)
Duke Ellington (piano)
Fred Guy (guitar)
Wellman Braud (bass)
Sonny Greer (drums)



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
Nobody could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
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