Cole Porter - Lyrics to Remember

 

Cole Porter was a composer and lyricist, and genius! He wrote this in 1935 during a pacific cruise aboard a Cunard ship traveling from Indonesia to Fiji. (Jerry Gray is also listed as a composer on this song.)

To do this song justice you must, of course, listen to the melody.

A sample of the lyrics to The Beguine:

When they begin the beguine

It brings back the sound of

Music so tender.

It brings back a night of tropical splendor.

It brings back a memory ever green.

I’m with you once more under the stars,

And down by the shore an

Orchestra’s playing

And even the palms seem to be swaying

When they begin the beguine…

 

…Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play

Till the stars that were there before return above you,

Till you whisper to me once more,

Darling, I love you!

And we suddenly know What heaven we’re in

When they begin the beguine

 

…Even the palms seem to be swaying!