Lover
Rodgers & Hart * Track #2 On Love Me Tonight
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Album Love Me Tonight
Lover by Rodgers & Hart
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This song was written for Rouben Mamoulian’s 1932 musical Love Me Tonight, in which the princess (Jeanette MacDonald) is singing this chromatic waltz while her horse-drawn carriage is traveling through the street. Her ethereal song is interrupted at various points by her shouting commands to her hor...
Lover Lyrics
Lover, when you find me
Will you blind me
With your glow?
Make me cast behind me
All my
Whoa!
Kiss me, he'll be saying
Gently swaying
I’ll obey
Like two children playing
In the
Hey!
He'll be my lord and my master
I'll be a slave to the last
He’ll make my heartbeat go faster
Not too fast!
Lover, when you take me
And awake me
I will know
Lover, you can make me
Love you so
Lover Q&A
Who wrote Lover's ?
Lover was written by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart.
Why "whoa!"? The word is "woe," as in I cast all my woe behind me.
Yes, but in the film, Jeannette MacDonald’s character is driving a horse-drawn carriage, and so she is shouting “Whoa!” to the horse in the middle of the song. It’s not the only time she interpolates her commands to the horse into the lyrics.