Mary Martin
Maurice Abravanel
Kenny Baker
Mary Martin
Kenny Baker
Mary Martin & Kenny Baker
Mary Martin
Kenny Baker
Maurice Abravanel
Mary Martin & Kenny Baker
This song was written primarily for Mary Martin in the 1943 Broadway musical One Touch of Venus and has become one of Weill’s best-known songs.
[VENUS]
Speak low, when you speak love
Our summer day
Withers away
Too soon, too soon
Speak low, when you speak love
Our moment is swift
Like ships adrift
We're swept apart too soon
Speak low, darling, speak low
Love is a spark
Lost in the dark
Too soon, too soon
I feel wherever I go
That tomorrow is near
Tomorrow is here
And always too soon
Time is so old
And love so brief
Love is pure gold
And time a thief
We're late, darling, we're late
The curtain descends
Everything ends
Too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me
Speak love to me
And soon?
[VENUS & RODNEY]
We're late, darling, we're late
The curtain descends
Everything ends
Too soon, too soon
I wait, darling, I wait
[RODNEY]
Will you speak love
[VENUS]
Will you speak love
[VENUS & RODNEY]
To me?
Speak Low was written by Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash.
Mary Martin & Kenny Baker released Speak Low on Thu Feb 10 1944.