One Alone by Oscar Hammerstein

[Clackman1]

From The Desert Song. I find several Web sites for The Desert Song, but I can't find the lyrics to One Alone. Are they on the Web?

[Steena]

Hey, I could not find a good and complete version of the song online, are these the lyrics? they fit with the snippet I found on Amazon as far as I understand them




I have heard all you've been saying
Yet I will love in my own way

Lonely as a desert breeze
I may wonder where I please
Yet I keep on longing
Just to rest a while

Where a sweetheart's tender eyes
Take the place of sand and skies
All the World forgotten
In one Woman's smile

One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshipping soul possesses

At her call, I'd give my all
All my life and all my love enduring
This would be a magic World to me
If she were mine alone

One alone, to be my own
I alone, to know her caresses
One to be, eternally
The one my worshipping soul possesses

[Clackman1]

Thanks very much. I'm not sure those are the complete lyrics, but they sound pretty close. In the 1953 film, Kathryn Grayson chimes in at the end, making it a duet with Gordon Macrae -- I will have to go back to the film and figure out what part she is singing.

[Steena]

you're welcome!

[anitagutie]

Steena and Clackman1,

I grew up with my father singing this song to me. Now he is gone and I miss him so much but I can't find any recording of this song. I did not even know the title.

Thank you. I've been searching for the lyrics and even a record/CD of this song. Other songs that I am looking for: My Rosary, My Desert is waiting, Caress... I am not even sure that these are the titles. Any info. is appreciated.

[Clackman1]

I don't know about the other songs you mention, but Amazon.com has a CD of the original cast recording of Desert Song, which would have One Alone on it.

[Will Abrams]

Its: "I may wander where I please"

Except for the first two lines, I have the song memorized. Except for "wonder", it is correct.

[Will Abrams]

Now, does anyone have the complete lyrics to Romance from the Desert Song? (not My Romance, which is another fantastically beautiful song.). I believe there are two versions, one from the musical ahow and one from the movie.

[namratasnv]

Hi,

I never heard of this song but I will soon try to find this out as, desert songs are all very good to hear.


Thanks!

[Will Abrams]

Here are the lyrics as I remember them.

Romance:
A flower that is born each Spring
To teach a nightingale to sing
A very pretty song:
"I Love You".
Romance:
A legend on an old brocade;
A prince who tells a country maid
"I love you."

Now where this whimsy comes from
I don't know,
But when it comes
It's just about to go.

Romance:
A flower that will bloom awhile
On dewdrops from a lover's smile,
And then will fade away.

Yet when I seek this beauty,
Flower of youth's first dawning,
I find a prosy, workaday world
Stretching and yawning.

Love is locked up in cages,
Kept for a poet's pages.
Love and adventure
Don't seem to be
Paying attention to me.

And so I dream
Of fair romance
And let my fancy weave
Pretty stories.

And though I know
They are-n't so
I like to go
Wand'ring amid their wistful glories.

My princes become what I mold them
And they're mine for the breadth of a sigh.
I open my arms to enfold them
And they're gone
Like a breeze rushing by.

Ah, this is a humdrum world;
But when I dream, I set it dancing.
When life is grey
I have a way
To make it gay:
I spend the time of day
Romancing.

[Will Abrams]

a duet
The setting is the Red Shadow, in his non-terrorist disguise,
romancing the heroine.

He sings:
My passion is not to crash on and woo a maiden in modern fashion.
I like the ways of the old world,
Ways of a dear self-controlled world.
I'll not give you mad embraces
To tear your laces and make you frown, dear.
I'll kiss the hem of your gown, dear;
Then you will know I love you.

Then she sings:
It is plain to see you've never been a girl;
That's no way to win a girl.

Then he sings:
Isn't there a dream that I can realize,
One girl I can idolize?

Then she sings:
Put her on a pedestal and she will fall;
She is human after all.

Then he sings:
All my love is gentle.
My appeal is mental.

Then she sings:
She won't hear you call.

My passion is not to crash on and woo a maiden in modern fashion.
I'll kiss the hem of your gown, dear;
Then you will know I love you.

[namratasnv]

I must say wow, this is so deep and straight to heart as, I like both the lyrics and specially the line of him as, reminds me of some special moments that are unforgetable.

Thanks!