Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Words and Music by :  Jerome Kern - Otto Harbach

Recorded by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: prob. August 1950
Master number: JR4443
Playing time: 2:53
Producer Jack Rollins
Arranger: Fred Norman
Jimmy Raney: Guitar; Tommy Potter: Bass; Al Haig: Piano; Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone.

78 : 5035
LP : CXS-115
CD: BCD16262, 32303, GSS5336, 7842, PLATCD-759,  GSS-5381,


Also recorded by
Svend Saaby Chor Polydor 22 683B    
GregMcDonald GMM2004
Dinah Washington    

Lyrics:

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true
I of course replied
Something here inside
Cannot be denied

They said someday you’ll find
All who love are blind
When you’re heart’s on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes

So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed
To think they could doubt my love
Yet today my love has flown away
I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
So I smile and say
When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes