Deep music fills the night
Deep in the heart of harlem
And tho' the starts are bright
The darkness is taunting me
Oh what a sad refrain a nocturne born in harlem
That melancholy strain forever is haunting me
The melody clings around my heart strings
It won't let me go
When I'm lonely
I hear it in dreams and some how it seems
It makes me weep and I can't sleep
An indigo tune it sing to the moon
The lonesome refrain of a lover
The melody sights it laughs and it cries
A moan in blue that wails
The long night through
Tho' with the dawn it's gone
The melody lives ever
For lonely hearts to learn
Of love in a harlem nocturne