A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

[Verse:]

I have an ear for music

And I have an eye for a maid

I link a pretty girlie

With each pretty tune that's played

They go together like sunny weather

Goes with the month of May

I've studied girls and music

So I'm qualified to say:

[Refrain:]

A pretty girl is like a melody

That haunts you night and day

Just like the strain of a haunting refrain

She'll start upon a marathon

And run around your brain

You can't escape, she's in your memory

By morning, night and noon

She will leave you and then come back again

A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune

[Patter:]

[The Humoresque:]

While a string orchestra played

This lovely tune I met a maid

And from the start she set my brain a-whirl

But alas we parted soon

And now I love to hear this tune

For it reminds me of that certain girl

[Mendelsohn's Spring Song:]

Once I met a girlie at the close of spring

I began to woo her and she answered "Yes" that summer

But when I went out to buy the wedding ring

She left me flat and ran off with a drummer

[Massina's Elegy:]

While the cello moaned tenderly this melody

She 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 dear

I love you with all my soul

While the singer's filled up my ear

With Offenbach's Barcarolle

When the music died away her love for me grew cold

And I found she told better tales

Than old Hoffman told

[Schubert Serenade:]

Once to a maid, this sweet serenade

I sang with feeling and grace

I vocalized just how much I prized

Her form and beautiful face

Said to say the maiden's husband

Came with a spade

And ruined my serenade

[Schumann's Traumerei:]

We met one evening at a dance

The band was playing, I was saying

Give me just a chance

She told me of a boy in France

And then she vanished and it banished

My romance