A Cigarette and a Silhouette

A Cigarette and a Silhouette - Mildred Bailey

A cigarette and a silhouette

Create a mood that is blue

For the cigarette helps me dream

And the silhouette looks like you

An easy chair where I rest my head

A single light burning low

Well the smoke takes the shape of clouds

And the light is a moon of glow

All through this dreamy heaven

I go back to days gone by

When the moon was real

And you were real

And my hopes were in the sky

If this memory only clings to me

I won't regret being blue

For I can't forget with a cigarette

And a silhouette of you