SOMETHING TO DO WITH SPRING

fr "Words & Music" 1932 Review sb Joyce Barbour & John Mills
Noel Coward  1932

Noel Coward w Ray Noble & his Orch  Sep 20th 1932

also rec by-
Ray Noble & his Orch (medley) '32
Carroll Gibbons & his Orch '32
Stuart Rose w Harry Noble '54
Barbara Casson & Jamie Ross '72
Bobby Short '72
Ian Bostridge & Sophie Daneman 2002


The sun is shining where clouds have been,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!
I feel no older than seventeen,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!

A feeling I can't express,
A sort of lilt in the air,
A lyrical loveliness
Seems everywhere, there!
That cow resembles a rural dean,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!

The Spring is here, dear,
Oh dear, oh dear, dear!
Can't you see
The simply agonising sheen
On every angry little tree?

You must admit it's rather fun
To think that every single thing
That nature ever does is over done!

You see exactly what I mean;
It all looks far too clean,
A badly painted scene,
The grass is far too green!

Perhaps there's something we have missed,
I never could have kissed
A sentimentalist!

Still, there's something in the atmosphere,
A sort of something, dear,
That makes me happy, dear.


The sun is shining where clouds have been,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!
I feel no older than seventeen,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!

A feeling I can't express,
A sort of lilt in the air,
A lyrical loveliness
Seems everywhere, there!
That sheep's expression is quite obscene,
Maybe it's something to do with Spring!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2012)