Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Lorelei , by - Noël Coward. Release date: 03.03.2022
Song language: English
Lorelei |
| Lorelei, Lorelei |
| Call to sailors drifting by |
| Who-o-o-o, who-o-o, come hither |
| While they’re sailing a voice is wailing a beckoning tune |
| No use praying they’ll all be paying a reckoning soon under the moon |
| Lorelei, Lorelei |
| Still the voices fade and die |
| Smiling with glee, into the sea they slither |
| Down in the depths profound |
| Where passionate joys are drowned |
| There lie the lovers wooed by the Loreli |
| All that is past, and now at last everything’s altered and changed-about |
| Progress goes on, glamour has gone from where the schooners once ranged-about |
| Speed and power, hour by hour liners tower high |
| Onward churning, never turning for a yearning cry |
| Coal dust to grime |
| No one has time |
| For any simple romance at all |
| Beckoned and coo |
| Till they are blue |
| Mermaids have got no damned chance at all |
| Lorelei, Lorelei, sit around and weep and cry |
| Days are too long, everything’s wrong completely |
| All the sirens in these environs are sorry they spoke |
| Coaling steamers are belching streamers of horrible smoke making them choke |
| Lorelei, Lorelei sadly sigh and wonder why |
| Every new ship gives them the slip so easily |
| What could be more obscene |
| Than vamping a sad marine |
| It is a languid let alone Lorelei |