Dancing On The Ceiling

Ella Fitzgerald · The Essential Collection: Great American Songbook [2007]

The world is lyrical

Because a miracle

Has brought my lover to me

Though he's some other place, his face I see



At night I creep in bed

And never sleep in bed

But look above in the air

And to my greatest joy, my boy is there



It his prince who walks

Into my dreams and talks



He dances overhead

On the ceiling near my bed

In my sight

Through the night



I try to hide in vain

Underneath my counterpane

There's my love

Up above



I whisper, "Go away, my lover

It's not fair"

But I'm so grateful to discover

He's still there



I love my ceiling more

Since it is a dancing floor

Just for my love



I whisper, "Go away, my lover

It's not fair"

But I'm so grateful to discover

He's still there



I love my ceiling more

Since it is a dancing floor

Just for my love

Just for my love