[Verse:]
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I have an ear for music
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And I have an eye for a maid
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I link a pretty girlie
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With each pretty tune that's played
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They go together like sunny weather
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Goes with the month of May
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I've studied girls and music
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So I'm qualified to say:
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[Refrain:]
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A pretty girl is like a melody
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That haunts you night and day
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Just like the strain of a haunting refrain
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She'll start upon a marathon
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And run around your brain
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You can't escape, she's in your memory
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By morning, night and noon
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She will leave you and then come back again
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A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune
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[Patter:]
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[The Humoresque:]
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While a string orchestra played
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This lovely tune I met a maid
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And from the start she set my brain a-whirl
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But alas we parted soon
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And now I love to hear this tune
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For it reminds me of that certain girl
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[Mendelsohn's Spring Song:]
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Once I met a girlie at the close of spring
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I began to woo her and she answered "Yes" that summer
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But when I went out to buy the wedding ring
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She left me flat and ran off with a drummer
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[Massina's Elegy:]
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While the cello moaned tenderly this melody
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She said to me "I love you"
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When the cello fellow was through he said "Adieu"
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She said "Me too" and flew
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[Offenbach's Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffman":]
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At the opera she said, "My dear
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I love you with all my soul
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While the singer's filled up my ear
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With Offenbach's Barcarolle
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When the music died away her love for me grew cold
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And I found she told better tales
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Than old Hoffman told
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[Schubert Serenade:]
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Once to a maid, this sweet serenade
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I sang with feeling and grace
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I vocalized just how much I prized
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Her form and beautiful face
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Said to say the maiden's husband
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Came with a spade
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And ruined my serenade
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[Schumann's Traumerei:]
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We met one evening at a dance
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The band was playing, I was saying
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Give me just a chance
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She told me of a boy in France
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And then she vanished and it banished
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My romance
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A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
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| Irving Berlin |
