How Can Love Survive? 1959 SOMus

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Mar 2013
2013

[Max:] In all the famous love affairs
The lovers have to struggle.
In garret rooms away upstairs
The lovers starve and snuggle.
They're famous for misfortune which
They seem to have no fear of,
while lovers who are very rich
You very seldom hear of.

[Elsa:] No little shack do you share with me,
we do not fly from a mortgagee,
Nary a care in the world have we
[Max:] How can love survive?

[Elsa:] You're fond of bonds
and you own a lot
I have a plane and a diesel yacht
[Max:] Plenty of nothing
you haven't got
[Both:] How can love survive?
[Elsa:] No rides for us
on the top of a bus
in the face of
the freezing breezes
[Max:] You reach your goals
in your comfy old Rolls
or in one of your Mercedeses!
[Elsa:] Far, very far off the beam are we,
Quaint and bizarre as a team are we,
Two millionaires with a dream are we
We're keeping romance alive.
Two millionaires with a dream are we
we'll make our love survive!
[Max:] No little cold water flat have we
warmed by the glow of insolvency
up to your necks in security
How can love survive?
[Elsa:] How can I share
what I feel for you?
I cannot go out
and steal for you,
I cannot die
like Camille for you
How can love survive?
[Max:] You millionaires
wth financial affairs
are too busy
for simple pleasure.
When you are poor
it is toujours l'amour
for l'amour all the poor have leisure!
[Elsa:] Caught in our goldplated chains are we
Lost in our wealthy domains are we,
Trapped by our capital gains are we
but we'll keep romance alive,
[Max:] Trapped by our capital gains are you
[Both:] we'll make our love survive!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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How Can Love Survive? 1959 SOMus
from the Stage Version of "The Sound of Music"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
© 1959 by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 28 March 2013 at 15.54
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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