From the 1941 film “Las Vegas Nights”
Words by Frank Loesser
Music by Louis Alter
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
It was a sunny little, funny little border town
Where on a moonlit night I rode
And all the local guys were vocalizing up and down
Before a certain girl’s abode
And from a hundred lips the melody came
Crooning her name
Refrain:
How I love the kisses of Dolores
Ay, ay, ay, Dolores
Not Marie or Emily or Doris
Only my Dolores
From a balcony above me
She whispers “Love me” and throws a rose
Ah, but she is twice as lovely
As the rose she throws
I would die to be with my Dolores
Ay, ay, ay, Dolores
I was made to serenade Dolores
Chorus after chorus
Just imagine eyes like moonrise
A voice like music, and lips like wine
What a break if I could make Dolores
Mine all mine