Romance (From "The Desert Song")

Romance - Kathryn Grayson

Romance a play boy

Who is born each spring

To teach the nightingale to sing

A very pretty song

I love you

Romance a legend on

An old brocade

A prince who tells a country

Maid I love you

Now where this whimsy

Comes from I don't know

For when it comes

It's just about to go

Romance a flower

That will bloom awhile

With sunshine from

A lover's smile

That lover's tears bedew

Ah

Yet when I seek this beauty

Flower of youth's first dawning

I find a prosy work a day world

Stretching and yawning

Love is locked up in cages

Kept for a poet's pages

Life and adventure

Don't seem to be paying

Attention to me

And so I dream of fair romance

And let my fancies

Weave pretty stories

And though I know they are and so

I like to go wandering amid

Their wistful glories

My princes become

What I mold them

And they stay for

The breath of a sigh

I open my arms to enfold them

And they're gone like

A breeze rushing by

Ah this is a humdrum world

But when I dream I set it dancing

When life is gray

I have a way to keep it gay

Passing the time dream of love