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(English lyrics: Sam M. Lewis. Music: Rezső Seress)

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless

Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless

Little white flowers will never awaken you

Not where black coaches of sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thought of never returning you

Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday, darkness I spend it all

My heart and I have decided to end it all

Soon there'll be flowers and prayers that are sad I know

Don't let them weep let them know that I'm glad to go

Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you

With the last beat of my heart I'll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday

[Song history: "Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist & composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as "Vége a világnak" ("End of the world"). Lyrics were written by László Jávor and in his version the song was retitled "Szomorú vasárnap" ("Sad Sunday"). The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935.

"Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and was recorded the same year by Paul Robeson, with lyrics by Desmond Carter. It became well known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis's lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing.]