AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
Victor Herbert (m) / Rida Johnson Young (l) )

(Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald )

Also sung by:


Jan Peerce
Richard Tauber
Harry Secombe
Bing Crosby
Barbra Russell
Elizabeth Futral
Karyn Levitt
Sathima Benjamin
Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
Tito Schipa
Nadine Connor
Kimmie Rhodes
Michael Ballam
Connee Boswell
Richard Crooks
Bob Crosby
Lars Erstrand Quartet
Percy Faith
Gracie Fields
Milt Jackson
Allan Jones
Barney Kessel
Felix Knight
Dick Meldonian
Vaughn Monroe
Jim Nabors
Ohio Light Opera
101 Strings Orch
George Osborne
Maxine Sullivan
Sarah Vaughan
And many others…

As sung in the March 1935 film 'Naughty Marietta'
Director: Woody Van Dyke (Robert Z. Leonard)
Leads: Jeanette MacDonald / Nelson Eddy / Frank Morgan

Adapted from the Broadway'Naughty Marietta' two act operetta, 
October 1910 in New York



Jeanette MacDonald sings:

Ah! Sweet mystery of life, at last I've found thee
Ah! at last I know the secret of it all
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The idle hopes and joy and burning tears that fall.

For 'tis love and love alone the world is seeking
And 'tis love and love alone I’ve waited for
And my heart has heard the answer to its calling
For it is love that rules for evermore.

Nelson Eddy sings:

Ah! Sweet mystery of life, at last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The idle hopes, the joy and burning tears that fall.

For 'tis love and love alone the world is seeking
And 'tis love and love alone I’ve waited for
And my heart has heard the answer to its calling
For it is love that rules for evermore.

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy sing:

Ah! Sweet mystery of life, at last I've found thee
Ah! at last I know the secret of it all
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The idle hope and joy and burning tears that fall.

For 'tis love and love alone the world is seeking
And 'tis love and love alone I’ve waited for
And my heart has heard the answer to its calling
For it is love that rules for evermore.



(Transcribed by David Story with assistance from Peter Akers
 - September 2013)

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AH !  SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE

as recorded by
Mario Lanza

Ah! Sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall!

For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye!

Love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
For 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye!


(Contributed by maritere1939 - June 2005)