From the 1930 film “The Big Pond”
Words and music by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Sweet one, fairer than the flowers
Never will I meet one sweeter than you
Would you turn away
Or could you really learn to care
If I ever dare to say, “I love you”
Refrain
If the nightingales could sing like you
They’d sing much sweeter than they do
For you brought a new kind of love to me
If the sandman brought me dreams of you
I’d want to sleep my whole life through
For you brought a new kind of love to me
I know that I’m the slave, you’re the queen
But still you can understand
That underneath it all you’re a maid
And I am only a man
I would work and slave the whole day through
If I could hurry home to you
For you brought a new kind of love to me
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: