Title song from the musical comedy “Fanny”, 1954.
Words and music by Harold Rome.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Only you, long as I may live
Fanny, Fanny, Fanny
You, long as I may live, Fanny
If I could love
That’s what I would say
But my heart isn’t mine to give
Fanny, Fanny, Fanny
No, no not mine to give, Fanny
For it is gone, given long away to the sea
My one love in her gray green clothes
Deep with wonders beyond the shore
To the isles ‘neath the winds
Where the spice wood grows
I must know them all, or sleep no more
Here’s a boy with no heart to give
Fanny, Fanny, Fanny
Not worth one tear you’ll cry, Fanny
Oh, Fanny, goodbye