From the film “Moonlight and Pretzels”, 1933
Words by E. Y. Harburg
Music by Jay Gorney
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
You look at me, but your lips never utter
The pray’r that is there in your eyes.
I look at you and my heart’s all a flutter,
It throbs and it sobs and it sight.
We’re more than sister and brother,
This thrill is something or other.
Refrain
Ah, but is it love?
This fatal fascination
Is such a sweet sensation,
But is it love? Really love? Mm-mm
I must admit my heart with joy is beating;
And yet it keeps repeating,
But is it love?
Tho’ your eyes confess, and your sighs confess,
And your arms seem ready to adore;
Tho’ it looks like love, and it feels like love,
Still, I’ve had such evidence before.
And mm – your kiss is sweet,
And your embrace is tender.
It may be sweet surrender.
But is it love?
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: