THE NIGHT THEY INVENTED CHAMPAGNE
From "Gigi" (1958)
(Lyrics : Alan Jay Lerner / Music :  Frederick Loewe)


Gigi (Leslie Caron), her grandmother, Mamita (Hermione Gingold) & Gaston (Louis Jourdan)

Gigi: What time tomorrow will we get there?
Can I watch you play roulette?
May I stay up late for supper?
Is it awfully awfully upper?
Mamita: Gigi! You'll drive us wild!
Stop! You silly child!
Gigi: Is everybody celebrated
full of sin and dissipated?
Is it hot enough to blister?
Will I be your little sister?
Mamita: Gigi! You are absurd!
Now not another word! Gigi!
Gaston: Let her gush and jabber
Let her be enthused
I cannot remember
when I have been more amused
Mamita: Stop it!
Gigi: The night they invented champagne
It's plain as it can be 
They thought of you and me
The night they invented champagne
They absolutely knew
that all we'd want to do
Is fly to the sky on champagne
And shout to everyone in sight
That since the world began
no woman or a man
has ever been as happy as we are tonight!
Gaston: The night they invented champagne (pop)
G & G: It's plain as it can be 
They thought of you and me
The night they invented champagne
They absolutely knew
that all we'd want to do
Is fly to the sky on champagne
And shout to everyone in sight (pop)
That since the world began
no woman or a man
has ever been as happy as we are tonight! (pop)



(Transcribed by Holly Tooker - December 2003)