Romance lyrics

Romance, a playboy who is born in 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 aren't so

I'd 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:

All the day I dream of love!

• Artist:Kathryn Grayson