Someone to Watch Over Me
Someone to Watch Over Me Lyrics
There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still we're often told "seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet
She's the big affair I cannot forget
Only girl I ever think of with regret
I'd like to add her initials to my monogram
Tell me where's the shepherd for this lost lamb
(Chorus)
There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone to watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although I may not be the man some girls think of
As handsome to my heart
She carries the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me
About
This song was written for the 1926 Broadway musical Oh, Kay! The song was first sung and immediately made famous by Gertrude Lawrence, whose character sang the song to a rag doll. It was the show’s biggest hit.
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From Ira Gershwin’s Lyrics on Several Occasions:
As originally conceived by the composer, this tune would probably not be around much today. At the piano in its early existence it was fast and jazzy, and I probably would have written it up as another dance-and-ensemble number. One day, for no particular reason and hardly aware of what he was at, George started and continued it in a comparative slow tempo, and half of it hadn’t been sounded when both of us had the same reaction: This was really no rhythm tune but rather a wistful and warm one, to be held out until the proper stage occasion arose for it.
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