Ev'ry show must have a song

Most ev'ryone agrees

For what else could the ingenue

and the juvenile reprise



And so I wrote a random note,

a harmony or two

And when it came to add the words

I tried describing you



A very precious love

Is what you are to me

A stairway to a star

A night in Shangrilá of ecstasy



Lanterns of gold

Lanterns of blue

Twinkle in the shadows

While I dance with you

An echo in the wind

Across the summer lake

Is sayin' you should know

that lanterns lose their glow

and hearts can break



So hold me close my darling

then kiss me tenderly

And give your precious love

Your very precious love to me