LIKE A BEAM FROM ABOVE
>From the Popeye cartoon "Shakespearian Spinach" (1940)


Jack Mercer (Popeye), Margie Hines (Olive Oyl) & Pinto Colvig (Bluto) - 1940





OLIVE OYL:
Ah, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo
Answer me, my Romeo

POPEYE:
Like a beam from above
Heavenly radiance, Juliet appears

OLIVE OYL:
Blissful dream, star of love
To my heart, remains endeared

POPEYE:
Here's this heart, by your dart, only finds bliss by your side
In your arms, by your charms, I'd have heaven in your light
But your ray died away, fled as fades the clouds in air
Let me 'lone here to moan, and has doomed me to despair
To dark, woah, despair, like a beam, from above

OLIVE OYL: Heavenly radiance, Romeo appears

POPEYE:
Blissful dream, star of love
To my heart remains endeared
Juliet! Oh, Juliet, why hast thou sunk this heart in love

OLIVE OYL: Thou didst leave me broken hearted

POPEYE: Soon to my own grave I go

BLUTO:
Ah! To your grave you'll go 
Ah, you'll go
Like a beam from above
Heavenly radiance, Juliet appears

OLIVE OYL:
Get out, scram, clumsy ham
You're a monkey with a beard

BLUTO: Here's this heart, by your dart, only finds bliss by your side

OLIVEOYL: I say go, better go, you will only spoil our show

BLUTO:
But your ray died away, fled as fades the cloud in air
Left me 'lone here to moan, and has doomed me to despair
To dark despair

OLIVE OYL:
On your way, you can't play
Nay, nay! Oh, if Popeye only hear

BLUTO: Thou didst leave me broken hearted, so, I'll go

POPEYE: Aah, I didn't think you cared, heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)