Romance Lyrics

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 tho' I know they are not so

I like to go wand'ring

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 of day with love