Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Romance (From "The Desert Song"), artist - Kathryn Grayson. Date of issue: 19.04.2014
Song language: English
Romance (From "The Desert Song") |
| Romance, a play boy who is born each spring |
| To teach the nightingale to sing |
| Romance, a legend on an old brocade, |
| A prince who tells a country maid: «I love you». |
| Now where this whimsy comes from, I don’t know; |
| For when it comes it’s just about to go. |
| Romance, a flower that will bloom awhile |
| With sunshine from a lover’s smile, |
| That lover’s tears bedew! |
| Ah! |
| Yet, when I seek this beauty, |
| Flower of youth’s first dawning, |
| I find a prosy work-a-day world |
| Stretching and yawning! |
| Love is locked up in cages, |
| Kept for a poet’s pages; |
| Life and adventure |
| Don’t seem to be paying attention to me! |
| And so I dream of fair Romance |
| And let my fancies weave pretty stories. |
| And tho' I know they are not so, |
| I like to go wand’ring amid their wistful glories. |
| My princes become what I mold them, |
| And they stay for the breath of a sigh! |
| I open my arms to enfold them, |
| And they’re gone like a breeze rushing by. |
| Ah, this is a humdrum world, |
| But when I dream I set it dancing. |
| When life is gray, I have a way to keep it gay, |
| Passing the time of day with love. |