 Genius Meanings
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Richard Burton, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe & Julie Andrews – The Lusty Month Of May
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[GUENEVERE] / Tra la, it's May, the lusty month of May / That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray / Tra la, it's here, that shocking time of year / When tons of
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Richard Burton) – Camelot
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[ARTHUR] / It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear / The climate must be perfect all the year / A law was made a distant moon ago here: / July and August cannot be too
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Richard Burton) – How To Handle A Woman
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[ARTHUR] / "How to handle a woman? / There's a way", said the wise old man / "A way known by every woman / Since the whole rigmarole began" / Do I flatter her? I begged, him answer
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Richard Burton) – I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight
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[ARTHUR] / I know what my people are thinking tonight / As home through the shadows they wander / Everyone smiling in secret delight / They stare at the castle and ponder
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Daniel Massey) – Gigi
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GASTON: / There's sweeter music when she sings, isn't there? / A different bloom about her cheeks, isn't there? / Could I be wrong, could it be so? / Oh where oh where did Gigi go
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Richard Burton, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe & Julie Andrews – What Do the Simple Folk Do?
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[GUENEVERE] / What do the simple folk do / To help them escape when they're blue? / The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum / The cobbler who is wailing from nailing
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Julie Andrews) – I Loved You Once in Silence
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[GUENEVERE] / I loved you once in silence / And misery was all I knew / Trying so to keep my love from showing / All the while not knowing you loved me too / Yes, loved me in
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Robert Goulet) – If Ever I Would Leave You
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[LANCELOT] / If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in summer / Seeing you in summer, I never would go / Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame / Your face
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Daniel Massey) – She's Not Thinking of Me
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Gaston: / She's so gay tonight / She's like spring tonight / She's a rollicking, frollicking thing tonight / So disarming, soft and charming / She is not thinking of me / No, she's
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Frederick Loewe – Little Prince
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Little prince from who knows there / Was it a star? Was it a prayer? / With every smile you clear the air / So I can see / Oh, little prince, don't take your smile away from me
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Richard Burton) – Camelot (Reprise)
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[ARTHUR] / Each evening, from December to December / Before you drift to sleep upon your cot / Think back on all the tales that you remember / Of Camelot / Ask every person if he's
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Roddy McDowall) – The Seven Deadly Virtues
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[MORDRED] / The seven deadly virtues, those ghastly little traps / Oh no, my liege, they were not meant for me / Those seven deadly virtues were made for other chaps / Who love a
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Karin Wolfe) – The Earth and Other Minor Things
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[Gigi] / The Postman or mama or Aunt Alicia / That's all it seems to be a question of / A pauper or a slave or Aunt Alicia / But not a mention anywhere of love / What is there than
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Frederick Loewe – Follow Me and Children's Chorus
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Through the clouds, gray with years / Over hill, wet with tears / To a world young and free / We shall fly, follow me / April green, everywhere / April songs always there / Come
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Frederick Loewe – Guenevere
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As Lancelot and Guenevere’s affair is discovered, he manages to escape but she isn’t so lucky. Arthur must decide whether to uphold his law and ideals — which he has worked to
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Alfred Drake & Maria Karnilova) – I Remember It Well
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HONOR: / We met at nine / GRANDMAMA: / We met at eight / HONOR: / I was on time / GRANDMAMA: / No, you were late / HONOR: / Ah yes, I remember it well / We dined with friends
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Robert Goulet) – C'est Moi
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[LANCELOT] / Camelot, Camelot / In far off France, I heard your call / Camelot, Camelot / And here am I to give my all / I know in my soul what you expect of me / And all that and
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Frederick Loewe – Fie on Goodness
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[COMPANY] / Fie on goodness, fie / Fie on goodness, fie / Eight years of kindness to your neighbor / Making sure that the meek are treated well / Eight years of philanthropic labor
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Frederick Loewe – They Call the Wind Maria
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Away out here they got a name / For rain and wind and fire / The rain is Tess, the fire's Joe / And they call the wind Maria / Maria blows the stars around / And sends the clouds a
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Daniel Massey & Karin Wolfe) – The Night They Invented Champagne
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Gigi: / The night they invented champagne / It's plain as it can be / They thought of you and me / The night they invented champagne / They absolutely knew / That all we'd want to
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Mary Sue Berry) – Follow Me
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[NIMUE] / Far from day, far from night / Out of time, out of sight / In between earth and sea / We shall fly; follow me / Dry the rain, warm the snow; / Where the winds never go
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Bruce Yarnell, James Gannon, John Cullum & Julie Andrews) – Then You May Take Me to the Fair
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[GUENEVERE] / Sir Lionel! / Do you recall the other night / That I distinctly said you might / Serve as my escort at the next town fair? / Well, I'm afraid there's someone who / I
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Alfred Drake & Daniel Massey) – It's a Bore
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(Honore) / Look at all the captivating fascinating things there are to do / (Gaston) / NAME TWO / (Honore) / Look at all the pleasures / All the myriad of treasures we have got / (
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Original Broadway Cast of My Fair Lady – Ascot Gavotte
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[LADIES & GENTLEMEN] / Every duke and earl and peer is here / Everyone who should be here is here / What a smashing, positively dashing spectacle / The Ascot opening day / At the
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David Brooks & Marion Bell – Almost Like Being in Love
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[TOMMY] / Maybe the sun gave me the power / For I could swim Loch Lomond and be home in half an hour / Maybe the air gave me the drive / For I'm all aglow and alive / What a day
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Michael Ball – Show Me
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(alan j. lerner/frederick loewe) / From the musical, my fair lady / Don't talk of stars / Burning above; / If you're in love / Show me! / Tell me not dreams / Filled with desire
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Frederick Loewe (Ft. Alfred Drake) – I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore
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HONOR: / Poor boy! / Poor boy! / Down hearted and depressed and in a spin / Poor boy! / Poor boy! / Oh, youth can really do a fellow in! / How lovely to sit here in the shade
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Perry Como – Almost Like Being in Love
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What a day this has been / What a rare mood I'm in / Why it's almost like being love . . / There's a smile on my face / For the whole human race / Why it's almost like being love
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Donna McKechnie – Be Happy
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The rose (Donna McKechnie) sings this song to the Little Prince (Steven Warner), who resolves to do whatever he can do to keep her alive.
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Rex Harrison – I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
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[HIGGINS] / Damn, damn, damn, damn / I've grown accustomed to her face / She almost makes the day begin / I've grown accustomed to the tune that she whistles night and noon / Her
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Original Broadway Cast of My Fair Lady (Ft. John Michael King) – On the Street Where You Live
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[FREDDY] / I have often walked down this street before / But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before / All at once am I several stories high / Knowing I'm on the street
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Lee Marvin – Wand'rin' Star
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The song originated in the 1951 Broadway play, Paint Your Wagon starring James Barton, but gained new popularity with the 1969 movie of the same name. Lee Marvin played prospector
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Richard Harris (Ft. Gary Marsh) – Finale Ultimo
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[ARTHUR] / Each evening, from December to December / Before you drift to sleep upon your cot / Think back on all the tales that you remember / Of Camelot / Ask ev'ry person if he's
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My Fair Lady Original Motion Picture Cast – Ascot Gavotte
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[LADIES AND GENTLEMEN] / Every duke and earl and peer is here / Everyone who should be here is here / What a smashing, positively dashing spectacle, the Ascot opening day / At the
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Tom Jones – If Ever I Would Leave You
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If ever I should leave you, it wouldn't be in summer / Seeing you in summer, I never would go / Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame / Your face with a luster
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The Nat "King" Cole Trio – Almost Like Being in Love
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What a day this has been / What a rare mood I'm in / Why, it's almost like being in love / There's a smile on my face / For the whole human race / Why, it's almost like being in
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Stanley Holloway – With A Little Bit Of Luck
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[ALFRED] / The Lord above gave man an arm of iron / So he could do his job and never shirk / The Lord gave man an arm of iron-but / With a little bit of luck / With a little bit of
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Maurice Chevalier – I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore
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(Verse) / Poor boy, poor boy / Downhearted and depressed and in a spin / Poor boy, poor boy / Oh, youth can really do a fellow in / (Chorus 1) / How lovely to sit here in the shade
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Andy Williams – Wouldn't It Be Loverly
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[Intro: Chorus] / Ooo / [Verse 1: Andy Williams] / All I want is a room somewhere / Far away from the cold night air / With one enormous chair / Oh, wouldn't it be lovely? / [Verse
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The Lettermen – If Ever I Would Leave You
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[Verse 1] / If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in summer / Seeing you in summer, I never would go / Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame / Your face with
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Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan, David Thomas & My Fair Lady Ensemble – With A Little Bit Of Luck
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[ALFRED] / The Lord above gave man an arm of iron / So he could do his job and never shirk / The Lord above gave man an arm of iron, but / With a little bit of luck, with a little
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Original Broadway Cast of My Fair Lady (Ft. Julie Andrews) – Without You
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[ELIZA] / What a fool I was, what a dominated fool / To think that you were the earth and the sky / What a fool I was / What an addlepated fool / What a muddle-headed dolt was I
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Rex Harrison – Why Can't The English?
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[HIGGINS] / Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right, she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the
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Ed Ames – Gigi
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There's sweeter music when she speaks / Isn't there? / A different bloom above her cheeks / Isn't there? / Could I be wrong? / Could it be so? / Oh where, oh where did Gigi go
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Dean Martin – On the Street Where You Live
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[Verse 1] / I have often walked down this street before / But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before / All at once am I several stories high / Knowing I'm on the street
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Vic Damone – On the Street Where You Live
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[Intro] / Oh, the towering feeling / Just to know somehow you are near / [Verse 1] / I have often walked on this street before / But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet
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