From the revue “Mayfair and Montmartre”, 1920
Words by Arthur Jackson
Music by George Gershwin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I never tire of raving
About my sweetie’s looks
She’s like a lovely engraving
You see in picture books
She makes you sit up in wonder
When she comes into view
And it’s no wonder that I love her
Because the whole world loves her, too
Refrain:
The little silkworm just spins for my lady
And for my lady the wild cotton grows
The lambs at pasture in meadows so shady
Are raising wool to make into my lady’s clothes
The seals and sables raise fur for my lady
From Greenland’s mountains to Africa’s sand
It seems the whole world works
Just to make my lady
The best dressed girl in the land
- Each night of her I’m dreaming
Until the break of day
Like summer stars her eyes gleaming
Shed light upon my way
And everybody is asking
Who is this lady fair?
For everybody loves my lady
My dainty queen of beauty rare
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: