Once Upon a Time Today - Dinah Shore, Jay Blackton, Ирвинг Берлин

I would like you to listen\nPay attention and listen\nTo a story that’s old, but never stale\nI would like you to listen\nPay attention and listen\nTo a twentieth century fairy tale\nOnce there was a princess\nOnce there was a guy\nAnd they fell in love one wonderful day\nBut she was a princess\nHe was just a guy\nSo there was the royal devil to pay\nThey were ordered not to speak to one another\nAnd they knew the sorrow that would bring\nStill, they promised not to speak to one another\nBut they didn’t promise not to sing\nSo beneath her window tenderly he sang\nAll the things he promised never to say\nOnce upon a time today\nHe collected lots of corny little phrases\nLike «I love you, dear"and «You're for me»\nBut he found that when he set them all to music\nThey were just as good as poetry\nSo beneath her window tenderly he sang\n«How about that happy ending in May?»\nOnce upon a time today