From the film “A Day at the Races”, 1937
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Tonight we will be gay
Turning away from all regret
Tonight saying “Goodbye”
To every sigh we will forget
And in fancy ‘neath a distant moon
You and I will drift upon a blue lagoon
Chorus:
On blue Venetian waters together we’ll dream
On blue Venetian waters how lovely ’twill seem
Starlight tumbling down you shall swear
As a silver crown for your hair
The blue Venetian moonlight
Will soon light our way
Your eyes will tell me secrets
Your lips dare not say
While I’m singing a love song
Of love dreams come true
Of blue Venetian waters and you