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Speak Low
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Guy Lombardo
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(words by Ogden Nash; music by Kurt Weill)
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Introduced by Mary Martin in the musical "One Touch of Venus."
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Sung by Eileen Wilson (dubbed for Ava Gardner) and Dick Haymes in the 1948
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film version of "One Tough of Venue."
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Best-selling record in 1944 by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians,
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vocal by Billy Leach.
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Speak low when you speak, love,
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Our summer day withers away
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Too soon, too soon.
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Speak low when you speak, love,
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Our moment is swift, like ships adrift,
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We're swept apart too soon.
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Speak low, darling speak low,
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Love is a spark lost in the dark,
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Too soon, too soon,
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I feel wherever I go
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That tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here
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And always too soon.
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Time is so old and love so brief,
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Love is pure gold and time a thief.
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We're late darling, we're late,
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The curtain descends, ev'rything ends
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Too soon, too soon,
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I wait darling, I wait
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Will you speak low to me,
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Speak love to me and soon.
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Speak Low
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Guy Lombardo |