This Nearly Was Mine

Ezio Pinza * Track #15 On South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Album South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast of South Pacific

ALBUM

Ezio Pinza

1949

This Nearly Was Mine by Ezio Pinza

Performed by

Ezio Pinza

Produced by

Goddard Lieberson

Writed by

Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein

About

Emile sings this song about how he had lost his true love, Nellie after she had found out about his mix-raced children. She left him because of his half-Polynesian children.

This Nearly Was Mine Lyrics

[EMILE]
One dream in my heart
One love to be livin' for
One love to be livin' for
This nearly was mine

One girl for my dream
One partner in paradise
This promise of paradise
This nearly was mine

Close to my heart she came
Only to fly away
Only to fly as day flies from moonlight
Now, now I'm alone
Still dreamin' of paradise
Still sayin' that paradise
Once nearly was mine

I'll keep rememberin' kisses
From lips I've never owned
And all that lovely adventures
That we have never known

One dream in my heart
One love to be livin' for
One love to be livin' for
This nearly was mine

Close to my heart she came
Only to fly away
Only to fly as day flies from moonlight

Now, now I'm alone
Still a-dreamin' of paradise
Still sayin' that paradise
Once nearly was mine

This Nearly Was Mine Q&A

Who wrote This Nearly Was Mine's ?

This Nearly Was Mine was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.