| Let our affair be a gay thing
|
| And when these hours have flown
|
| Then, without forgetting happiness that is past
|
| There’ll be no regretting fun that didn’t quite last
|
| Let’s look on love as a plaything
|
| All these sweet moments we’ve known
|
| Mustn’t be degraded
|
| When the thrill of them has faded
|
| Let’s say goodbye and leave it alone
|
| Teach me to dance
|
| Like grandma used to dance
|
| I refuse to dance—
|
| Blues
|
| Blackbottoms, Charlestons—what wind blew them in?
|
| Monkeys do them in
|
| Zoos
|
| Back in the past the dancing singified
|
| Just a dignified
|
| Glow
|
| They didn’t have to be so strong
|
| Though they revolved the whole night long
|
| Teach me to dance like grandma used to dance
|
| Sixty summers ago
|
| We were dancing
|
| And the gods must have found it entrancing
|
| For they smiled
|
| On a moment undefiled
|
| By the care and woe that mortals know—
|
| We were dancing
|
| And the music and lights were enhancing our desire
|
| When the world caught on fire
|
| She and I were dancing
|
| Sigh no more, sigh no more
|
| Great clouds of sorrow fill the sky no more
|
| Joy is your troubador
|
| Sweet and beguiling ladies, sigh no more
|
| Sigh no more
|
| Sweet and beguiling ladies, sigh no more
|
| Play to me beneath the Summer moon
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner!
|
| Now you have me in your power
|
| Play to me for just an hour
|
| Zigeuner!
|
| You were there
|
| Your eyes looked into mine and faltered
|
| Everywhere, the colour of the whole world altered
|
| False became true
|
| My universe tumbled in two
|
| The earth became heaven for you were there
|
| Nevermore. |
| Nevermore
|
| Can life be quite the same
|
| The light and shadows change
|
| All the old familiar world is strange
|
| Evermore, evermore
|
| Our hearts are in the flame
|
| Others may regain their freedom
|
| But for you and me
|
| Never, never, more
|
| Though our worlds may go awry
|
| Though the years my tears may dry
|
| I shall love you till I die
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday sun!
|
| Play to me beneath the Summer moon
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner!
|
| All I ask of life
|
| Is just to listen to the songs that you sing
|
| My spirit like a bird on the wing
|
| Your melodies adoring
|
| Soaring!
|
| Call to me with some barbaric tune
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner!
|
| Now you have me in your power
|
| Play to me for just an hour
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Let our affair be a gay thing
|
| And when these hours have flown
|
| Then without forgetting happiness that is past
|
| There’ll be no regretting fun that didn’t quite last
|
| Let’s look on love as a plaything
|
| All these sweet moments we’ve known
|
| Mustn’t be degraded
|
| When the thrill of them has faded
|
| Let’s say goodbye and leave it alone
|
| Teach me to dance like grandma used to dance, I refuse to dance blues
|
| Blackbottoms, Charlestons, what wind blew them in
|
| Monkeys do them in zoos
|
| Back in the past the dancing singified
|
| Just a dignified glow
|
| They didn’t have to be so strong
|
| Though they revolved the whole night long
|
| Teach me to dance like grandma used to dance
|
| Sixty summers ago
|
| We were dancing
|
| And the gods must have found it entrancing
|
| For they smiled
|
| On a moment undefiled
|
| By the care and woe that mortals know
|
| We were dancing
|
| And the music and lights were enhancing our desire
|
| When the world caught on fire
|
| She and I were dancing
|
| Sigh no more, sigh no more
|
| Great clouds of sorrow fill the sky no more
|
| Joy is your troubador
|
| Sweet and beguiling ladies, sigh no more
|
| Sigh no more
|
| Sweet and beguiling ladies, sigh no more
|
| Play to me beneath the Summer moon
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner
|
| Zigeuner!
|
| Now you have me in your power
|
| Play to me for just an hour
|
| Zigeuner
|
| You were there
|
| Your eyes looked into mine and faltered
|
| Everywhere the colour of the whole world altered
|
| False became true
|
| My universe tumbled in two
|
| The earth became heaven for you were there
|
| Nevermore. |
| Nevermore
|
| Can life be quite the same
|
| The light and shadows change
|
| All the old familiar world is strange
|
| Evermore, evermore
|
| Our hearts are in the flame
|
| Others may regain their freedom
|
| But for you and me
|
| Never, never, more
|
| Though our worlds may go awry
|
| Though the years my tears may dry
|
| I shall love you till I die
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday
|
| Out in the midday sun! |