A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody – Caater – letras

[Verse:]I have an ear for musicAnd I have an eye for a maidI link a pretty girlieWith each pretty tune that’s playedThey go together like sunny weatherGoes with the month of MayI’ve studied girls and musicSo I’m qualified to say:[Refrain:]A pretty girl is like a melodyThat haunts you night and dayJust like the strain of a haunting refrainShe’ll start upon a marathonAnd run around your brainYou can’t escape, she’s in your memoryBy morning, night and noonShe will leave you and then come back againA pretty girl is just like a pretty tune[Patter:][The Humoresque:]While a string orchestra playedThis lovely tune I met a maidAnd from the start she set my brain a-whirlBut alas we parted soonAnd now I love to hear this tuneFor it reminds me of that certain girl[Mendelsohn’s Spring Song:]Once I met a girlie at the close of springI began to woo her and she answered « Yes » that summerBut when I went out to buy the wedding ringShe left me flat and ran off with a drummer[Massina’s Elegy:]While the cello moaned tenderly this melodyShe said to me « I love you »When the cello fellow was through he said « Adieu »She said « Me too » and flew[Offenbach’s Barcarolle from « Tales of Hoffman »:]At the opera she said, « My dearI love you with all my soulWhile the singer’s filled up my earWith Offenbach’s BarcarolleWhen the music died away her love for me grew coldAnd I found she told better talesThan old Hoffman told[Schubert Serenade:]Once to a maid, this sweet serenadeI sang with feeling and graceI vocalized just how much I prizedHer form and beautiful faceSaid to say the maiden’s husbandCame with a spadeAnd ruined my serenade[Schumann’s Traumerei:]We met one evening at a danceThe band was playing, I was sayingGive me just a chanceShe told me of a boy in FranceAnd then she vanished and it banishedMy romance