WHERE ARE THE SONGS WE SUNG?

fr "Operette" 1938 musical
Noel Coward  1937

as recorded by 
Peggy Wood 
March 25th 1938


Once in a lifetime when we are very, very young
And love comes out to greet us for the first time,
We open wide our arms and say to him,
"This is the only and the last time
That young surrender!".

We can remember when some little tune
Recalls our hearts to vanished splendour
Like organ music in a sunny street,
So sweetly flat, so sadly tender.
And so when love again rides by,
We sometimes sigh;

Where are the songs we sung
When love in our hearts was young?
Where, in the limbo of our passing years,
Lie all our hopes and dreams and fears?

Where have they gone, words that rang so true
When love in our hearts was new?
Where, in the shadows that we have to pass among,
Lie those songs that once we sung?

Where are the songs we sung
When love in our hearts was young?
Can you remember all the foolish things we said,
The plans we planned, the tears we shed?

Where is it now, that enchanted dawn
When love in our hearts was young?
Where, in the shadows that we have to pass among,
Lie those songs that once we sung?




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2012)