What More Can I Ask? 1932 Ray Noble

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 12 Apr 2002

Hum.......
I have wasted years on foolish fancies,
Thought that love would all be diff'rent
Somehow;
Hum.......
I've learned what a silly dream romance is,
That's why I don't expect
so much of love now.

What more can I ask
Than your arms around me?
What more do I need
Now your lips have found me?
Even though we may realise
We're living in a Fool's Paradise.
What's sweeter to hear
Than love's old sweet story?
What matter, my dear,
If you're not sincere?
For when the moon's above
You whisper words of love,
This must be Heaven,
What more can I ask?

What more can I ask
Than your arms around me?
What more do I need
Now your lips have found me?
Even though we may realise
We're living in a Fool's Paradise.
What's sweeter to hear
Than love's old sweet story?
What matter, my dear,
If you're not sincere?
For when the moon's above
You whisper words of love,
This must be Heaven,
What more can I ask?

Hum.......
No more for the silver moon I'm yearning,
Fairy tales, I know,
can never come true;
Hum.......
In the school of life and love I'm learning,
So I have had to change my point of view

What more can I ask
Than your arms around me?
What more do I need
Now your lips have found me?
Even though we may realise
We're living in a Fool's Paradise.
What's sweeter to hear
Than love's old sweet story?
What matter, my dear,
If you're not sincere?
For when the moon's above
You whisper words of love,
This must be Heaven,
What more can I ask?

What more can I ask
Than your arms around me?
What more do I need
Now your lips have found me?
Even though we may realise
We're living in a Fool's Paradise.
What's sweeter to hear
Than love's old sweet story?
What matter, my dear,
If you're not sincere?
For when the moon's above
You whisper words of love,
This must be Heaven,
What more can I ask?

What More Can I Ask? 1932
Music by Ray Noble
Lyrics by Anona Winn
copyright MCMXXXII by The Lawrence Wright Music Co. Ltd.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. PittPayne in London UK
on Friday 12 April 2002 at 13.37
in association with Doug Grierson
*
This song was the hit from
The British and Dominion Film
'The Little Damozel'
*
Ray Noble started as an organist in a London suburban cinema until he won a nationwide competition for arranging and orchestrating which led to a job in the Charing Cross Road Tin Pan Alley and thereafter he attracted the attention of Jack Payne and The New Mayfair Orchestra sounded wonderful with his arrangements. Eventually he translated to Hollywood, Bing Crosby films.

Anona Winn, was one of the brightest sparks of her day and went on to feature on the Radio into the seventies and eighties.

Soft karaoke
Words
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str 50
str 110
clarinet 60
brass 75
pizz
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What More Can I Ask? 1932
Music by Ray Noble
Lyrics by Anona Winn
copyright MCMXXXII by The Lawrence Wright Music Co. Ltd.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Friday 12 April 2002 at 13.37
in association with Doug Grierson
*
This song was the hit from
The British and Dominion Film
'The Little Damozel'
*