Make Believe
Jerome Kern * Track #5 On Show Boat
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Make Believe by Jerome Kern
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This song occurs early in the 1927 Broadway musical Show Boat, when teenage Magnolia Hawks and riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal first meet and are immediately smitten with each other. Their romance will take some turbulent turns that belie the sentiments in this song.
Make Believe Lyrics
(Chorus 1)
[GAYLORD]
Only make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending;
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do
(Verse)
[GAYLORD]
Your pardon I pray
'Twas too much to say
The words that betray my heart
[MAGNOLIA]
We only pretend
You do not offend
In playing a lover's part
The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I know
Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see
[GAYLORD]
And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so
That's just an unimportant technicality
[MAGNOLIA]
Though the cold and brutal fact is
You and I have never met
We need not mind conventions, p's and q's
If we put our thoughts in practice
We could banish all regret
Imagining what sweet ending we choose
(Chorus 2)
[MAGNOLIA]
We could make believe I love you
We could make believe that you love me
[GAYLORD AND MAGNOLIA]
Others find peace of mind in pretending;
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
[GAYLORD]
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
[GAYLORD AND MAGNOLIA]
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do
Make Believe Q&A
Who wrote Make Believe's ?
Make Believe was written by Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern.
When did Jerome Kern release Make Believe?
Jerome Kern released Make Believe on Tue Dec 27 1927.