Too Marvelous For Words 1937

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 04 Apr 2007
2007

I search for phrases,
To sing your praises,
But there aren't any magic adjectives
To tell you all you are.

You're just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It's all too wonderful
I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean they just aren't swell enough

You're much too much,
and just too very very
To ever be, in Webster's dictionary
And so, I'm borrowing
a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words

You're just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It's all too wonderful
I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough
I mean they just aren't swell enough

You're much too much,
and just too very very
To ever be, in Webster's dictionary
And so, I'm borrowing
a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Too Marvelous For Words 1937
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Music by Richard A.Whiting
© 1937 by Warner Bros. Inc. (renewed)
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The 1937 Warner Bros. Film, "Ready, Willing and Able"
was the first collaboration between Mercer and Whiting.
In the film, Ruby Keller and Lee Dixon, with dozens of
chorines, tap out the lyrics of this tune on a giant
typwriter. Bing Crosby's recording the same year reached
the top of the charts. Having earned the status of pop
standard, this great song could also be heard in the 1950
film, "Young Man With A Horn."
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 04 April 2007 at 4.21pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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