The Picture I Want To See

From the musical “Miss 1917”
Words by P. G. Wodehouse
Music by Jerome Kern


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Do you like to watch a movie show?
    So many men do not
    No I never can be a movie fan
    Still there’s just one picture which I know
    Would please me quite a lot
    Won’t you let me know the scenario?
    The scene would be a church you see
    And you’d be standing there with me

Refrain
I’ve got it planned you understand
It’s simply grand, I take you hand
After that you leave the rest to me
First, up the aisle we go in style
Your sunny smile makes life worth while
For my bride I know you’re soon to be
A moment we linger
While the ring, I put on your finger
Then dear, we start no more to part
That afternoon our honeymoon
That’s the picture that I’d like to see

  1. I’ve a picture, too, inside my mind
    Which I would like to view
    Tell me has it go an exciting plot?
    Is it the absorbing five-reel kind
    They’re all so keen to do
    No, it isn’t wild
    It’s quite tame and mild
    The scene is at a little flat
    And we are there I’ve settled that

Refrain
We sit and chat, and nurse the cat
Serenely at our little flat
Dearie, that is what appeals to me
When lights are lit, sometimes I knit
To do my bit, and as is fit
Then I sit upon your darling knee
In tones of deep affection
You read me the sporting section
Then, oh! what bliss to steal a kiss
And bill and coo, just I and you
That’s the picture that I’d like to see