IN YOUR OWN QUIET WAY
From the film "Stage Struck" (1936)
(Music: Harold Arlen / Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg)


Dick Powell (Film Soundtrack) - 1936



There was nothing about you, nothing to make me sigh, funny thing
You had none of that fire that brings smoke to one's eye, strangest thing
Boys nodded to you out of sheer etiquette
There was nothing about you one couldn't forget, yet

In your own quiet way
You took me over in your own quiet way
You disarmed me with a sweet "How've you been?", couldn't win
You drugged me with a smile and inveigled me in

Your own quiet way
You played Delilah in your own quiet way
You came by and with a look of a dove, dropped your glove
And sold me down that river known as love

Who'd think of faces tender as a serenade 
Could break me up like this
What Joan of Arc did with a whole brigade
You did with a single kiss

Like an April day
You waltzed into my life and whispered something warm
Then in your own quiet way
You took my heart by storm

(Instrumental Break)

Who'd think of faces tender as a serenade 
Could break me up like this
What Joan of Arc did with a whole brigade
You did with a single kiss

Like an April day
You waltzed into my life and whispered something warm
Then in your own quiet way
You took my heart by storm



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2018)