ROYAL WEDDING (Soundtrack)
Songs from the film "Royal Wedding" (1951)
Starring Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn
All songs written by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner
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EVERY NIGHT AT SEVEN
Performed by Fred Astaire
My royal day can be a royal bore
It leaves me colder than a basement floor
The only moment I keep waiting for
Is when the day will be through
I never know if it's dark or clear
What people say to me I hardly hear
The passing hours are an endless year
Until at last I'm alone with you
Ev'ry night at seven you walk in as fresh as clover
And I begin to sigh all over again
Ev'ry night at seven you come by like May returning
And me-oh-my, I start in yearning again
You seem to bring faraway Spring near me
I'm always in full bloom when you're in the room
For ev'ry night at seven, ev'ry time the same thing happens
I fall once again in love, but only with you
(Dance routine - Fred Astaire & Jane Powell)
(Ev'ry night at seven, ev'ry time the same thing happens)
I fall once again in love, but only with you
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OPEN YOUR EYES
Performed by Jane Powell
Open your eyes
There's a sapphire sky above us, high above us
Made for you when you open your heart
Open your eyes
There's a carpet of jade around us, laid around us
All for you when you open your heart
Let me show you the sights, take you on a tour
Of this great, new, fabulous world we own
We alone
So, open your eyes
And you'll see how this momentary
Ordinary night can seem more unreal than a dream
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THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Performed by Jane Powell
I wake up with the sun each morning
Happy the night's gone by
I wake up and pray each morning
Pray that the day will fly
And then I sit back and smile
And dream of that day when
I'll be standing by your side, my love
The happiest day of my life
How my heart will swell with pride, my love
The happiest day in a lifetime
Then as the last words are spoken
The bells in the steeple will chime
And I will love you so and you will see
It will be for a lifetime
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HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAID I LOVED YOU, WHEN YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN A LIAR ALL MY LIFE?
Performed by Fred Astaire & Jane Powell
FRED: Oh yeah, yeah!
JANE: You listen to me just once
FRED: Oh sure
JANE: Yeah!
FRED: Sure, yeah!
JANE: I told you a million times, you never wanna listen to me
FRED: So I said it, so you heard it, so you're mad. So what?
JANE: So this, it's the last time I ever go to a party with you!
FRED: Will you put that in writin'?
JANE: Well you're always makin' cracks, makin' cracks!
FRED: Like what?
JANE: You always humilate me, humilate me. Didn't your mother never teach ya no manners?
FRED: I ain't never had no mother, we was too poor.
JANE: Say, what's the matter with you lately? You used to tell me you loved me. You used to treat me like a high-class dame. Well usen't ya?
FRED: So I used
JANE: Oh, so there, you admit it
FRED: I ain't admittin' nothin'!
JANE: I'll give ya one more chance. Do ya love me or don't ya?
FRED: No I don't!
JANE: Quit stallin'! I want a direct answer
FRED: Oh, listen, kid, there's one thing about you I can't understand.....
FRED: How could you believe me when I said I loved ya, when you know I've been a liar all my life?
JANE: You've had that reputation since you was a youth
FRED: You must've been insane to think I'd tell you the truth
JANE: How could I believe you when you said we'd marry?
FRED: Why, you know I'd rather hang than have a wife. I know I said I'd make you mine
JANE: Now wouldn't youse know that I would go for that old line?
FRED: How could you believe me when I said I loved ya when you know I've been a liar?
JANE: You sure have been a liar
FRED: A double-crossin' liar
JANE: A double-crossin' liar
FRED: All my doggone cheatin' life?
JANE: You said you would love me long
FRED: So what?
JANE: And never would do me wrong
FRED: Stop bending the suit!
JANE: And faithful you'd always be
FRED: Me? Why baby, you must be loony to trust a lower-than-low, two-timer like me
JANE: You said I'd have everything
FRED: Get her
JANE: A beautiful diamond ring
FRED: Ha-Ha-Ha
JANE: A bungalow by the sea
FRED: A bungalow yet. You're really naive to ever believe a full-of-baloney phony like me
JANE: Why, I sure must've lost my head
FRED: You ain't lost nothin' you never had
JANE: What about the time you went to Indiana?
FRED: I was lyin', I was down in Alabam
JANE: You said you had some business you had to complete
FRED: What I was doin', I would be a cad to repeat.
JANE: What about the evenin's you was with your mother?
FRED: I was rompin' with another honey lamb
JANE: To think you swore our love was real
FRED: Baby, leave us not forget that I'm a heel
JANE: How could I believe you when you said you loved me?
FRED: Why, you know I've been a liar
JANE: A good-for-nothin' liar
FRED: All my good-for-nothin' life
(Dance Sequence)
(Jane punches and kicks Fred)
FRED: Ooh! Ow! Ooh!
JANE: You know you've been a liar
FRED: I know I've been a liar
JANE: A double-crossin' liar
FRED: A double-crossin' liar
JANE: All your good-for-nothin' life!
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TOO LATE NOW
Performed by Jane Powell
Too late now to forget your smile
The way we cling when we've danced awhile
Too late now to forget and go on to someone new
Too late now to forget your voice
The way one word makes my heart rejoice
Too late now to imagine myself away from you
All the things we've done together
I relive when we're apart
All the tender fun together
Stays on in my heart
How could I ever close the door
And be the same as I was before
Darling, no, no I can't anymore
It's too late now
(Whistling)
All the things we've done together
I relive when we're apart
All the tender fun together
Stays on in my heart
How could I ever close the door
And be the same as I was before
Darling, no, no I can't anymore
It's too late now
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YOU'RE ALL THE WORLD TO ME
Performed by Fred Astaire
Everywhere that beauty glows, you are
Everywhere an orchid grows, you are
Everything that's young and gay, brighter than a holiday
Everywhere the angels fly, you are
You're like Paris in April and May
You're New York on a silvery day
A Swiss alp as the sun grows fainter
You're Loch Lomond when Autumn is the painter
You're moonlight on a night in Capri
And Cape Cod looking out at the sea
You're all places that leave me breathless
And no wonder you're all the world to me
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I LEFT MY HAT IN HAITI
Performed by Fred Astaire & Chorus
I left my hat in Haiti
In some forgotten flat in Haiti
I couldn't tell you how I got there
I only know it was so hot there
She took my hat politely
And wound her arms around me tightly
But I remember nothing clearly
Except the flame when she came near me
Her eyes had the fire of surrender
And her touch it was tender
And I guess in a moment as that
You forget about your hat
So if you go to Haiti
There is a girl I know in Haiti
If you can find her you'll adore her
Just look around till you've found someone who has a blue-grey fedora
I think of that gorgeous creature when I'm all alone
Whenever I do, from down inside there comes a groan
That son-of-a-gun in Haiti has got the prettiest hat I own
And when it's bleak and chilly, and life is flat
I think of that Haitian dilly, and think I'd better go get my hat
(Dance Sequence)
I left my hat in Haiti
In some forgotten flat in Haiti
I couldn't tell you how I got there
I only know it was so hot there
But I remember nothing clearly
Except the flame when she came near me
(Her eyes had the fire of surrender)
(And her touch it was tender)
(And I guess in a moment as that)
(You forget about your hat)
(So if you go to Haiti)
(There is a girl I know in Haiti)
(If you can find her you'll adore her)
(Just look around till you've found someone who has a blue-grey fedora)
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WHAT A LOVELY DAY FOR A WEDDING
Performed by Keenan Wynn & Chorus
(What alovely day for a wedding)
(Happy are we to say)
(It's a lovely day for a wedding)
(Lovely in every way)
(The sun is out without a doubt)
(To see what all the joy's about)
(For everywhere the world is merry and gay)
(What a lovely day for a wedding)
(Over again we say)
(It's a lovely, lovely, lovely wedding day)
What a lovely day for a wedding
Happy are we to say
(A lovely day for a wedding)
Lovely in every way
(The Royal Guard is off their guard)
(And drink has gone to Scotland Yard)
Big Ben has quite forgot the time of the day
(The time of the day)
What a lovely day for a wedding
Over again we say
It's a lovely, lovely wedding
(Lovely, lovely wedding )
Lovely (lovely)
Lovely (Lovely)
Wedding Day
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All songs transcribed and/or verified by Mel Priddle - Dec 2007)
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