From the 1932 film “The Gay Divorcee”.
Words and music by Cole Porter.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating
You, you, you
Refrain
Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon
And under the sun
Whether near to me or far
It’s no matter darling where you are
I think of you night and day
Day and night, why is it so
That this longing for you follows
Wherever I go
In the roaring traffic’s boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you night and day
Night and day under the hide of me
There’s an, Oh, such a hungry yearning
Burning inside of me
And its torment won’t be through
‘Til you let me spend my life
Making love to you
Day and night, night and day
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: