Favorite Lerner and Lowe Lyrics?

Well since we have one for Sondhiem and ALW why not Lerner and Lowe who, IMHO, wrote some of the loveliest music on broadway.

Here is mine from Camelot

"What else do the simple folk do?
They must have a system or two
They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth
And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth....

When all the doldrums begin
What keeps each of them in his skin?
What ancient native custom provides the needed glow?
Oh, what do simple folk do?"

As far as I know, Loewe didn't write any lyrics, but as for Lerner, nothing compares with his lyrics for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/White House Cantata.

Especially "On ten square miles by the Potomac River"
and 'The Monroviad'

Lerner at the top of his game is so dazzling. Also in the aforementioned "Simple Folk," there is the incredible:

"The wee folk and the grown folk
Who wander to and fro
Have ways known to their own folk
We throne folk
don't know"

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bumpy

How Can I Wait?:

Oh what can I do, can I think about?
How can my heart keep from jumping out?
How can I sleep? Couldn't sleep if I tried
Where can I run till I run to his side?
How can I wait till tomorrow comes?

From This Day On:

These hurried hours were all the life we could share.
Still, I will go with not a tear, just a prayer
That when we are far apart, you'll find something from your heart
Has gone! Gone with me from this day on.

Show Me:
Never do I ever want to hear another word.
There isn't one I haven't heard.
Here we are together in what ought to be a dream;
Say one more word and I'll scream!

And of course, "The Night They Invented Champaigne!"

Since it was mentioned earlier in this thread, and is such a gorgeous song. The lyrics are just poetry.

This is hard to say,
but as I wandered through the lee,
I felt for just a fleeting moment that
I suddenly was free
of being lonely.
Then I closed my eyes and saw
the very reason why.

I saw a man with his head bowed low.
His heart had no place to go.
I looked and I thought to myself with a sigh:
There but for you go I.

I saw a man walking by the sea,
Alone with the tide was he.
I looked and I thought as I watched him go by:
There but for you go I.

Lonely men around me,
trying not to cry,
Till the day you found me,
there among them was I.

I saw a man who had never known
a love that was all his own.
I thought as I thanked all the stars in the sky:
There, but for you, go I.

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"She'll have a booming boisterous family
That will descend on you en masse
She'll have a large Wagnerian mother
with a voice that shatters glass"