From “The Three Musketeers”, 1928
Words by Clifford Grey
Music by Rudolf Friml
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I used to say, “No attraction
Could ever start to win my heart”
Now I admit my distraction
For meeting you is something new
No power today could have saved me
For right away you enslaved me
Refrain
Ma Belle! Ma Belle!
You are so charming
I’m enchanted with you
Ma Belle! Ma Belle!
Your eyes are daring me
And thrilling me, too
Every smile invites me all the while
With every look surprising, tantalizing
Whispering, “Who’ll wake me?
Come and take me
Ma Belle! Ma Belle!
Forever I shall stay beneath your spell
I’ll be my whole life through
Adoring you, Ma Belle!
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: