PLAY, ORCHESTRA PLAY

(Noel Coward)


As recorded by:
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans
V. Robert Ashley
Recorded 9th January 1936

Also recorded by:
Noel Coward / Gertrude Lawrence
Roy Fox,
Patricia Hodge / Lewis Flander
John Bunch
 Keith Ingham / Barbara Lea



Play, orchestra play
Play something light and sweet and gay
For we must have music, we must have music
To drive our tears away
While our illusions swiftly fade for us
Let’s have an orchestra start
In the confusion the years have made for us
They’re made for us just once more
Life needn’t be grey
Although it’s changing day by day
Though few old dreams may decay
Play, orchestra play.






(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - August 2013)