Favorite Lerner and Lowe Lyrics?

[cello_dude]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:31pm

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?"

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:41pm

"There But For You Go I"

[BkCollector]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:47pm

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'

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:54pm

The entirety of On The Street Where You Live.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:56pm

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"

[puppetman2]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 2:26pm

I Loved You Once In Silence

Camelot - the whole song

I Talk To The Trees - once I start singing it, I can't get it out of my mind.

Updated On: 4/4/08 at 02:26 PM

[cello_dude]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:58am

bumpy

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:00am

"I Talk to the Trees" from "Paint Your Wagon."

What a great love song.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:12am

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!"

[jewishboy]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 12:33pm

BUMP

I Wonder What The King is Doing Tonight:

You wonder what the king is wishing tonight?
He's wishing he were in Scotland fishing tonight!
What occupies his time while waiting for the bride?
He's searching high and low for some place to hide.
And oh, the expectation,
The sublime anticipation
He must feel about the wedding night to come.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:55pm

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.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 3:17pm

The entire "Show Me" and "Just You Wait" numbers from MY FAIR LADY.

[lildogs]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 3:31pm

"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"

[bbabe24]

Posted: 4/4/08 at 5:00pm

"Come deary near me
So ye can hear me
I've got to whisper this softly
For tho' I'm burnin'
To shout my yearnin'
The words come tiptoein'
Off me.

Oh, come to me
Bend to me
Kiss me good day
Darlin'
My darlin'
Tis all I can say

Just come to me
Bend to me
Kiss me good day
Give me your lips
And don't take them
Away"