Jerome Kern The Last Time I Saw Paris Lyrics

The Last Time I Saw Paris Lyrics

Performed by Dinah Shore) 

  

 A lady known as Paris, Romantic and Charming 

 Has left her old companions and faded from view 

  

 Lonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vain 

 Her streets are where they were, but there's no sign of her 

  

 She has left the Seine 

  

 The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, 

 I heard the laughter of her heart in every street caf‚ 

  

 The last time I saw Paris, her trees were dressed for spring, 

 And lovers walked beneath those trees and birds found songs to sing. 

  

 I dodged the same old taxicabs that I had dodged for years. 

 The chorus of their squeaky horns was music to my ears. 

  

 The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, 

 No matter how they change her, I'll remember her that way. 

  

 I'll think of happy hours, and people who shared them 

 Old women, selling flowers, in markets at dawn 

  

 Children who applauded, Punch and Judy in the park 

 And those who danced at night and kept our Paris bright 

  

 'til the town went dark