STRANGER IN PARADISE
(Alexander Borodin / George Forrest / Robert C. Wright)

Tony Bennett - 1954
David Whitfield – 1966

Also recorded by:
Ronnie Aldrich; Winifred Atwell; The Bachelors; Stanley Black; 
Ann Blyth; Earl Bostic; Sarah Brightman; Petula Clark; 
Ray Conniff; Bing Crosby; Lorna Dallas; Sammy Davis Jr.; 
Percy Faith; The Four Aces; Ted Heath; Al Hirt; 
Edmund Hockridge; Engelbert Humperdinck; The Ink Spots; 
Jack Jones; London Promenade Orch.; Gordon MacRae; Mantovani; 
Tony Martin; Valerie Masterson; Johnny Mathis; Doretta Morrow; 
101 Strings Orch.; Opera Babes; John Raitt; Della Reese; 
Edmundo Ros; Diana Ross & the Supremes; Sir Harry Secombe;
George Shearing; Keeley Smith; Catarina Valente; ... and others.


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 the danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside an angel like you

I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I know there's a chance that you care

Won't you answer this 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 this stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be
A stranger no more