A VERY PRECIOUS LOVE
Theme song from the film "Marjorie Morningstar" (1958)
(Music: Sammy Fain / Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster)

Gene Kelly (Film Soundtrack) - 1958
The Ames Brothers - 1958
Doris Day - 1958

Also recorded by: Jimmy Young; Slim Whitman; Dick Haymes;
Jack Jones; Bonnie Guitar; Billy Vaughn: .... and others.



Ev'ry show must have a song
Most ev'ryone agrees
For what else could the ingenue
And the juvenile reprise

And so I wrote a random note
A harmony or two
And when it came to add the words
I tried describing you

A very precious love
Is what you are to me
A stairway to a star
A night in Shangri-La of ecstasy

Lanterns of gold
Lanterns of blue
Twinkle in the shadows
While I dance with you

An echo in the wind
Across the summer lake
Is saying you should know
That lanterns lose their glow
And hearts can break

So hold me close my darling
Then kiss me tenderly
And give your precious love
Your very precious love to me