CLOSE AS PAGES IN A BOOK 
From the Broadway Musical "Up In Central Park" (1945)
(Music: Sigmund Romberg / Lyrics: Dorothy Fields)

Wilbur Evans & Eileen Farrell (Broadway Production) - 1945
Benny Goodman & His Orch. (vocal: Jane Harvey) - 1945
Bing Crosby - 1945
David Street & The Sportsmen Quartet - 1945
Jarmila Novotna & James Melton (Radio Transcript) - 1945
Dick Haymes & Deanna Durbin - 1948
Jackie Gleason's Wind Orch. (Instr.) - 1956
Jeri Southern - 1957
Eddie Fisher - 1958
Vic Damone - 1959
Ted McNabb & Co. (Instr.) - 1959
Maxine Sullivan - 1969
Barbara Cook - 1993

Also recorded by:
Beverly Sills & Sherrill Milnes; Jeanette MacDonald & Robert Merrill;
Gerry Mulligan; Ian Shaw; Sally Mayes; Claire Martin; Barbara Lee.



We’ll be close as pages in a book
My love and I
So close, we can share a single look
Share every sigh

So close that before I hear your laugh
My laugh breaks through
And when a tear starts to appear
My eyes grow misty too

Our dreams won’t come tumbling to the ground
We’ll hold them fast
Darling, as the strongest book is bound
We’re bound to last

Your life is my life
And while life beats away in my heart
We’ll be close as pages in a book
Never to part


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As recorded by DICK HAYMES and DEANNA DURBIN
for inclusion, but not used, in the 1948 film of "Up In Central Park":


HAYMES:
My joy in loving you is past understanding
It makes me much too eager, much too demanding
I'm a very selfish lover, with a jealous heart
If you should cross the room, I'd be alone
I've got to feel your cheek against my own

DURBIN: As close as this
HAYMES: As close as this
DURBIN: It's very pleasant, though confining
HAYMES: I'll let you free while we're dining
DURBIN: This lovely life you're designing, suppose it should fade
HAYMES: So much of me and so much of you, and yet I'm not afraid, for...

HAYMES: We’ll be close as pages in a book, my love and I
DURBIN: So close, we can share a single look, share every sigh 
HAYMES: So close that before I hear your laugh, my laugh breaks through
DURBIN: And when a tear starts to appear, your eyes grow misty, too, and...

DURBIN: Our dreams won’t come tumbling to the ground, we’ll hold them fast
HAYMES: 
Darling, as the strongest book is bound, we’re bound to last
Your life is my life, and while life beats away in my heart
We’ll be close as pages in a book, never to part

DURBIN: 
Our dreams won’t come tumbling to the ground, we’ll hold them fast
Darling, as the strongest book is bound, we’re bound to last
BOTH:
Your life is my life, and while life beats away in my heart
We’ll be close as pages in a book, never to part


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2017)