From “Music in the Air”, 1932.
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Music by Jerome Kern.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I hear music when I look at you
A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew
Down deep in my heart I hear it play
I feel it start, then melt away
I hear music when I touch your hand
A beautiful melody from some enchanted land
Down deep in my heart, I hear it say,
Is this the day?
I alone have heard this lovely strain,
I alone have heard this glad refrain,
Must it be forever inside of me,
Why can’t I let it go,
Why can’t I let you know
Why can’t I let you know
The song my heart would sing?
That beautiful rhapsody
Of love and youth and spring,
The music is sweet, the words are true
The song is you
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: