Speak Low

SPEAK LOW
W: Ogden Nash
M: Kurt Weill
From: “One Touch Of Venus”
Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett
Key: F


Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief
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Speak low when you speak love
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Our sum-mer day with-ers a-way 
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too soon, too soon
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Speak low when you speak love
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Our mo-ment is swift like ships a-drift
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We’re swept a-drift too soon

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Speak low dar-ling speak low 
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Love is a spark, lost in the dark 
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too soon, too soon
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I feel wher-ev-er I go 
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that to-mor-row is near
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To-mor-row is here and al-ways too soon

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Time is so old and love so brief
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Love is pure gold and time a thief
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We're late, dar-ling, we're late
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The cur-tain de-scends, 
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ev-‘ry-thing ends 
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too soon, too soon
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I wait, dar-ling, I wait
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Will you speak low to me, 
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speak love to me and soon