Aubrey by Bread Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.802662

• David Gates wrote this song after watching the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn. The song itself had nothing to do with the movie, but moodiness of the film had set him up to write it.
• Gates: "I hardly ever write any 'name' songs, but I loved that name and the way it flowed in that particular melody. That may be the best melody I've ever written."
• Lyrics:
• And Aubrey was her name
  A not so very ordinary girl or name
  But who's to blame?
  For a love that wouldn't bloom
  For the hearts that never played in tune
  Like a lovely melody that everyone can sing
  Take away the words that rhyme it doesn't mean a thing
  And Aubrey was her name
  We tripped the light and danced together to the moon
  But where was June
  No, it never came around
  If it did it never made a sound
  Maybe I was absent or was listening to fast
  Catching all the words, but then the meaning going past
  But God, I miss the girl
  And I'd go a thousand times around the world just to be
  Closer to her than to me
  And Aubrey was her name
  I never knew her, but I loved her just the same
  
  I loved…
• Presented here as an arrangement for Brass Quintet and supportive percussion.