Love of My Life (From "Brigadoon") [Bonus Track]-Alan Jay Lerner

[ti:Love of My Life (From Brigadoon) (Bonus Track)] [ar:Alan Jay Lerner] [al:My Fair Lady: The Original Broadway Cast Recording] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Love of My Life (From "Brigadoon") [Bonus Track] - Alan Jay Lerner [00:03.88]At sixteen years I was blue and sad [00:07.85]Then father said I should find a lad [00:11.61]So I set out to become a wife [00:14.81]And found the real love of my life [00:20.41] [00:22.84]His name it was Chris [00:24.32]And the last was MacGill [00:26.32]I met him one night [00:27.89]Pickin' flowers on the hill [00:30.18]He had lots of charm [00:31.74]And a certain kind of touch [00:33.67]An a certain kind of eagerness [00:35.56]That pleased me very much [00:37.36] [00:41.22]So there beneath the moon [00:42.65]Where romance often springs [00:44.91]I gave him me heart [00:46.35]And a few other things [00:48.48]I don't know how long [00:50.08]That I stayed up on the hill [00:51.81]But the moon had disappeared [00:53.49]And so had Christopher MacGill [00:55.46] [00:59.71]So I went home and I thought I'd die [01:03.44]Till Father said make another try [01:07.17]So I set out to become a wife [01:10.50]And found the real love of my life [01:16.06] [01:18.74]Oh he was a poet a rhymer was he [01:22.35]He read me some verse [01:23.88]He had written for me [01:26.03]He said they would move me [01:27.85]These poems from his pen [01:29.61]And how right he was [01:30.77]Because they moved me right into the glen [01:33.32] [01:37.42]We stayed till the dawn came [01:39.32]And lighted the sky [01:41.17]Then I shook his hand [01:42.63]And I bid him good-bye [01:44.77]I never went back [01:46.31]For what I had heard was true: [01:48.24]That a poet only writes [01:50.06]About the things he cannot do [01:52.22] [01:56.21]My pa said [01:57.04]Look out for men who think [01:59.23] [01:59.81]Ye'll be more certain [02:01.57]With men who drink [02:03.50]So I set out to become a wife [02:06.83]And found the real love of my life [02:13.08] [02:15.07]Oh he was a solier [02:16.71]A fine Highland son [02:18.80]He told me about [02:20.13]All the battle he'd won [02:22.52]He wasted his time [02:24.05]Tellin' me about his might [02:25.96]For one look at him [02:27.11]Decided me to not put up a fight [02:29.64] [02:33.84]We skirmished for hours [02:35.41]That night in the glen [02:37.47]And I found the sword [02:39.05]Has more might than the pen [02:41.33]But when I was drowsin' [02:43.04]I snored to my dismay [02:44.88]And he thought it was a bugle [02:46.61]And got up and marched away [02:49.05] [02:52.80]Now Pa said Daughter there must be one [02:56.29]Someone who's true or too old to run [03:00.08]So I'm still lookin' to be a wife [03:03.32]And find the real love of my life