| Song No. 42 "Stranger In Paradise" |
| Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest (based on a theme by Alexander Borodin) |
| The musical Arabian Night that is "Kismet" takes place in long-ago Baghdad over the course of a day. This beauty from the show is one of the "Polovetsian Dances" found in Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor." It provided a bestselling recording for the young Tony Bennett in 1953. Lyrics Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise, All lost in a wonderland, a stranger in paradise. If I stand starry eyed, that's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like you. I saw your face, and I ascended, Out of the common place into the rare Somewhere in space, I hang suspended Until I know there's a chance that you care. Won't you answer the fervent prayer Of a stranger in paradise? Don't send me in dark despair from all that I hunger for... But open your angel's arms to the stranger in paradise and tell (him, her) that (he, she) need be a stranger no more. |