WHAT CAN YOU SAY IN A LOVE SONG?
From the Broadway Revue "Life Begins At 8:40" (1934)
(Ira Gershwin / E. Y. Harburg / Harold Arlen)

Josephine Huston & Bartlett Simmons (Broadway Production) - 1934
Richard Himber & His Orch. (vocal: Joey Nash) - 1934



Mmmm, surrender
Mmmm, so tender
Mmmm, forever more
What can you say in a love song
That hasn't been said before?

Mmmm, so sweetly
Mmmm, completely
Mmmm, je vous adore
What can you say in a love song
That hasn't been said before?

You are my true love
Old and new love
I live for you, love
You are my guiding star

Lovers long before us 
Sang the same old chorus
If it worked in days of yore
Why should I say in a love song
What hasn't been said before?










(Contributed by  - March 2007)