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SOME ENCHANTED EVENING

Some enchanted evening you may see a stranger, you may see a stranger across a crowded room, and somehow you know, you know even then that somewhere you'll see her again and again.

Some enchanted evening someone may be laughing, you may hear her laughing across a crowded room, and night after night, as strange as it seems, the sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams.

Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

Some enchanted evening when you find your true love, when you feel her call you across a crowded room, then fly to her side and make her your own, or all through your life you may dream all alone.

Once you have found her, never let her go. Once you have found her, never let her go.

TWIN SOLILOQUIES

NELLIE Wonder how I'd feel living on a hillside, looking on an ocean, beautiful and still.

EMILE This is what I need, this is what I've longed for, someone young and smiling climbing up my hill!

NELLIE We are not alike. Probably I'd bore him. He's a cultured Frenchman; I'm a little hick.

EMILE Younger men than I, officers and doctors, probably pursue her; she could have her pick.

NELLIE Wonder why I feel jittery and jumpy! I am like a school girl waiting for a dance.

EMILE Can I ask her now? I am like a schoolboy! What will be her answer? Do I have a chance?

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS
NELLIE This is how it feels living on a hillside.

EMILE This is what I need, this is what I've longed for, someone young and smiling here upon my hill.

NELLIE I hear the human race is falling on its face

EMILE ...and hasn't very far to go.

NELLIE But ev'ry whippoorwill is selling me a bill and telling me it just ain't so.

NELLIE, EMILE I could say life is just a bowl of Jello and appear more intelligent and smart, but I'm stuck (like a dope!) with a thing called hope and I can't get it out of my heart. Not this heart.

THIS NEARLY WAS MINE

EMILE I was cheated before and I'm cheated again by a mean little world of mean little men. And the one chance for me is this life I know best, to be here on an island and to hell with the rest. I will cling to this island like a tree or a stone, I will cling to this island and be free and alone.

One dream in my heart, one love to be living for, one love to be living for, this nearly was mine.

One girl for my dream, one partner in paradise, this promise of paradise, this nearly was mine.

Close to my heart she came, only to fly away, only to fly as day flies from moonlight.

Now, now I'm alone, still dreaming of paradise, still saying that paradise once nearly was mine.

So clear and deep are my fancies of things I wish were true, I'll keep rememb'ring evenings I wish I'd spent with you.

I'll keep rememb'ring kisses from lips I'll never own and all the lovely adventures that we have never known. Now, now I'm alone, etc.

FINALE ULTIMO

NELLIE, NGANA, JEROME Dites-moi pourquoi la vie est belle; dites-moi pourquoi

EMILE la vie est gaie.

EMILE, CHILDREN Dites-moi pourquoi chère mad'moiselle,

EMILE est-ce que parce que vous m'aimez.

NELLIE Born on the opposite sides of a sea we are as different as people can be.

EMILE It's true.

NELLIE And yet you want to marry me.

EMILE I do.

NELLIE I've known you a few short weeks and yet some how you've made my heart forget all other men I have ever met but you, but you.

EMILE Some enchanted evening you may see a stranger, you may see a stranger across a crowded room, and somehow you know, you know even then that somewhere you'll see her again and again.

NELLIE Who can explain it, who can tell you why?

EMILE Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. Some enchanted evening when you find your true love, when you feel her call you across a crowded room, then fly to her side and make her your own, or all through your life you may dream all alone.

NELLIE Once you have found him, never let him go.

EMILE Once you have found her, never let her go.