VERSE

My darling, all around us people clamor,
They're striving for the things they'll never own.
The only thing that hasn't lost its glamour
Is love and love alone.

REFRAIN

What does it matter if we're rich or we're poor?
Fortune and fame, they never endure.
Oh, love is the thing,
Love is the thing!
What good is money if your heart isn't light?
Here in your arms, I'm wealthy tonight.
When youth has its fling,
Love is the thing!
While others fight for pow'r,

VERSE

There's something inside of my heart that cries,
It cries, for it wants to live.
A song of devotion, a song that speaks of love.
It's hard to believe that you can't surmise
The treasure I have to give.
Is love out of fashion, the thing that I'm dreaming of?

REFRAIN

Give me a heart to sing to,
Or my song you'll never hear.
For I must have a heart to sing to,
Or my song wouldn't be sincere.
Give me your love to guide me,
Let us find a world apart.

VERSE

From the Island of Manhattan to the Coast of Gold,
From North to South, from East to West,
You are the love I love the best.
You're the dream girl of the sweetest story ever told;
A dream I've sought both night and day
For years through all the U.S.A.
The star I've hitched my wagon to
Is very obviously you.

REFRAIN

Of thee I sing, baby —
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, baby.
You're my silver lining,
You're my sky of blue;
There's a love-light shining

VERSE

When the mellow moon begins to beam,
Ev'ry night I dream a little dream;
And of course Prince Charming is the theme:
The he
For me.
Although I realize as well as you
It is seldom that a dream comes true,
To me it's clear
That he'll appear.

REFRAIN

Some day he'll come along,
The man I love;
And he'll be big and strong,
The man I love;
And when he comes my way,
I'll do my best to make him stay.
He'll look at me and smile —
I'll understand;

There was a maid come out of Kent,
Dainty love, dainty love;
There was a maide came out of Kent,
Dangerous be:
There was a maid came out of Kent,
Fair, proper, small and gent,
As ever upon the ground went,
For so should it be.

VERSE

Song is in the air,
Telling us romance is ours to share.
Now at last we've found one another alone.
Love like yours and mine
Has the thrilling glow of sparkling wine,
Make the most of time ere it has flown.

REFRAIN

You and the night and the music
Fill me with flaming desire,
Setting my being completely
On fire!
Thrill me, but will we be one,
After the night and the music
Are done?
Our hearts will be throbbing guitars.
Morning may come without warning,
And take away the stars.

VERSE

Who knows why the sea
Or why the sky is blue?
Why should you love me,
Or I love you?
Who knows how love starts
Or where its course will run?
Who knows why two hearts
Will beat as one?

REFRAIN

I'm all at sea,
Can this be love?
This mystery,
Can this be love?
I'm in a blue haze
Where nothing seems quite real.
I wander through days
With this crazy feeling.
What can it be,
Can this be love?
This thing that I
Keep dreaming of
All through the night till

(with Ira Gershwin)

VERSE

Spring is here,
I'm a fool if I fall again,
And yet I'm enthralled
By its call again.
You say you love me —
I know from the past
You mean to love me,
But these things don't last.
Fools rush in
To begin new love affairs.
But tonight,
Tonight, my dear, who cares?

REFRAIN

Fun to be fooled,
Fun to pretend,
Fun to believe
Love is unending.
Thought I was done,
Still it is fun
Being fooled again.

Proudly swept the rain by the cliffs
As on it glided through the trees
Still following ever the liko
The Ahihi lehua of the vale.

Chorus:
Farewell to thee, farewell to thee
Thou charming one who dwells in shaded bowers
One fond embrace ere I depart
Until we meet again.

Thus sweet memories come back to me
Bringing fresh remembrance of the past
Dearest one, yes, thou art mine own

VERSE

Though my position is of low degree
And all the others may look down on me,
I'll go smiling through,
That's if I have you.
I am the happiest of troubadours
Thinking of you while I'm massaging floors,
At my leisure time,
I made up this rhyme:

REFRAIN 1

I will be the oil mop
If you'll be the oil,
Then we both could mingle
Ev'ry time we toil.
I will be the washboard
If you'll be the tub,
Think of all the Mondays,
We can rub-a-dub.