Where Did the Magic Go

I’ve dreamed my dreams in blues and grays

Happy timeless yesterdays

The blues in sea and Lady Day

Ellington and Hemingway

Candlelight and Courvoisier

Where did the magic go?

I loved the age when movie stars

Had fancy furs and foreign cars

Spencer playing Katherine’s beau

Bogie in a gangster role

Fred and Ginger dancing slow

Where did the magic go?

Where did the magic go, my friend

Since that lovely time

When Rodgers found a melody

And Hart made up the rhyme

Walking miles through the snow

To hold that one girl’s hand

When life was all illusion

All illusion grand

But now there’s too much empty space

Too little style, too little grace

Louis’ sound cannot be found

Byrd and Tatum aren’t around

And who remembers Dorsey’s sound

Where did the magic go?

We gathered at the Avalon

To hear the late great tunes

And Francis Albert sang to us

In lonely dark saloons

Gershwin played his Rhapsody

Garbo spoke a line

Ella gave us ballads

By Kahn and Jule Styne

The lights have dimmed on names I’ve know

The stage is dark, the dreams have flown

The memories of songs by Bing

Benny was the King of Swing

Basie on a one-night stand

Artists dream by Kenton’s band

I remember everything

And great music never dies

These were moments through the years

The sounds that brought us joy and tears

I remember every scene

We’ll never let it go

This magic that’s in our souls, my friend

When magic is in your soul, my friend

This magic will never die