Wednesday, April 21, 2010

In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room

In the entry prior to this one I mentioned a song my mother played on the piano for us kids; that I would write the words out. There is a rendition of the music you can listen to if you go to Wikipedia and search for Piano Sonata No. 16 (Mozart) or type in google:
"In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room" and go to Wikipedia from there. 
 listen to the ''allegro'' version!!!


Music and Lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Raymond Scott:

I FOUND AN OLD MUSTY BOOK,
LONG LOST
IN SOME FAR FORGOTTEN NOOK.
IN THE BOOK A FADED PICTURE,
AND THE SCENT OF FAINT PERFUME,
TWO OLD-FASHIONED LOVERS
IN AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM.                         (hope to put a picture here of
                                                                                                        my mini-grand, mom's pic...)
NOTHING IS EVER NEW,
EVER SINCE LOVE BEGAN,
SEE HER TWO EYES OF BLUE,
FLIRTING BEHIND HER FAN.
LOOK AT HIS SILK AND LACE,
ISN'T HE DEBONAIR?
AND THE SMILE ON HIS FACE
TELLS OF THE LOVE THEY SHARE.

HEAR THEIR TWO HEARTS SOFTLY BEAT,
ONE MOMENT MORE
AND THEIR LIPS WILL MEET.
WHAT A SWEET AND CHARMING PICTURE,
LOVE IN GLORY, LOVE IN BLOOM,
DON`T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE
IN AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM.

Man, I can hear Mom singing this as plain as day. It was wonderful and as a young teenager, well, just hopeful and such. Thanks Mom for sharing your love of music with all us kids.

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