From the 1937 film “High, Wide and Handsome”
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Soon you leave me
This last night is flying
Pale stars are weeping
Sad breezes sigh
When you leave me
Can loved end with trying?
Can love so living
So quickly die?
Refrain:
Can I forget you?
Or will my heart remind me
That once we walked in a moonlit dream?
Can I forget you
Or will my heart remind me
How sweet you made the moonlight seem
Will the glory of your nearness fade
As moonlight fades in a veil of rain?
Can I forget you?
When every night reminds me
How much I want you back again