From the musical “Central Park”, 1944 Words by Dorothy Fields Music by Sigmund Romberg
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There’s a love as swift and light as an April snow
It’s a shining gift, a bright bit of touch and go
It’s a love you dare not crush in your arms
A moment the charms aglow
Then it quickly flies away, like an April snow
There’s a love as swift and soft as an April snow
But the wind might shift aloft
And the flakes must blow
For the early Spring’s an impermanent thing
A delicate string to cling to
And for-get-me-nots won’t grow in an April snow
Would you settle then for half?
Would you take this much and laugh?
Won’t you wait till May comes
When your day comes
Choose the heart and leave the chaff?
Oh, the love that’s swift
And light as an April snow
Is a meager gift
You’re right if you let it go
For the love I long to hold in the night
Must give me the right to know
She will never fly away like the April snow
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: