Stranger In Paradise
Tony Bennett 
from "The Very Thought Of You"-Columbia AL-30758
Words and Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest  
competing versions charted by 
   The Four Aces (#3)  
   Tony Martin (#10)  
   Gordon MacRae (#29)
   from the musical "Kismet"-based on Borodin's 
   "Polovtsian Dances"
 


Chart 

Debut 
  
Weeks

# 
 
Label
 
Billboard 

Jan 1954

 

2
 
RCA
    

 


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