[1st verse:]
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Last winter Liza Snow
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Picked up a book called Romeo
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She read a page or so
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Then hunted for a man
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Soon she was dreaming of
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A beau who cooed just like a dove
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A man who sho' could love
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Like a Romeo can
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She wandered out one night
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Beneath the pale moonlight
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And sang with all her might
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This ancient cry
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[Refrain:]
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Where art thou, Romeo
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My colored Romeo
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The balcony wants to see he and she, you and me
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Come out and pet your colored Juliet
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Don't linger, do it now
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Come kiss my fevered brow
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Shakespear's love come and show me, colored Romeo
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[2nd verse:]
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Miss Liza's father Joe
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Did not approve of Romeo
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But Liza loved him so
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They ran off in a car
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They made a mile or three
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In almost nothing, don't you see
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The auto struck a tree
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Then they didn't go far
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Miss Liza from the ground
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Kept gazing all around
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Her beau could not be found
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So Liza cried
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Colored Romeo
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| Irving Berlin |
