From the 1953 musical “Can Can”
Words and music by Cole Porter
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Sit down, if you please
And from laughing refrain
Sit down, if you please
And I beg you, try to listen while I explain
Refrain:
I am dejected, I am depressed
Yet resurrected and sailing the crest
Why this elation mixed with deflation?
What explanation? I am in love
Such conflicting questions ride
Around in my brain
Should I order cyanide, or order champagne?
Oh, what is this sudden jolt?
I feel like a frightened colt
Just hit by a thunderbolt
I am in love
I knew the odds were against me before
I had no flare for flaming desire
But since the gods gave me you to adore
I may lose, but I refuse to fight the fire
So, come and enlighten my days and never depart
You only can brighten the blaze
That burns in my heart
For I am wildly in love with you
And so in need of a stampede of love