Tony Bennett, Norah Jones - Speak Low
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold, time’s a thief.
Speak low
When you speak love
Our summer days wither away
too soon too soon
speak low
when you speak love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift
we're swept apart, too soon.
Speak low,
darling speak low
love is a spark lost in the dark too soon, too soon
i think wherever I’ll go
that tomorrow is near
tomorrow is here and always to soon.
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief
We’re late,
Darling we’re late
The curtain descends
everything ends too soon too soon
I’l wait, oh darling i’ll wait
Will you speak low to me,
speak love to me and soon
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time’s a thief
We’re late,
Darling we’re late
The curtain it sends
everything ends too soon too soon.
I’l wait, oh darling i’ll wait
Will you speak low to me
Speak love to me
Will you speak low to me
Love to me and soon
Speak low, speak love,
Speak low, speak love.
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"Speak Low" (1943) is a popular song
composed by Kurt Weill, with
lyrics by Ogden Nash. It was
introduced by Mary Martin
and Kenny Baker in the Broadway musical One Touch of
Venus (1943). The 1944 hit single was by Guy Lombardo and his orchestra, with vocal by
Billy Leach. Barbra
Streisand recorded a David Foster arrangement of "Speak Low" for her 1993
album, Back to
Broadway [1] The tune is a jazz
standard that has been widely recorded, both by vocal artists from Billie Holiday to The Miracles to Dee Dee
Bridgewater, and such instrumentalists as Bill Evans, Roy Hargrove and Brian Bromberg. Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass recorded this in 1983 (on CD Speak
Love).