Leo Reisman Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Lyrics

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Lyrics

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Platters
Words by Otto Harbach and Music by
Jerome Kern

Peak Billboard position # 1 in 1958
In 1934, four
versions charted: Paul Whiteman (#1), Leo Reisman (#3),
Emil Coleman (#4),
and Ruth Etting (#15)
In 1941 Artie Shaw took it to # 24.
from the 1933
musical "Roberta" starring Bob Hope


They asked me how I knew my true
love was true
I of course replied "something here inside cannot be
denied"
They said "someday you'll find all who love are blind"
When your
heart's on fire, you must realize smoke gets in your eyes
So I *chaffed*
them and I gaily laughed to think they could doubt my love
Yet today my love
has flown away, I am without my love

Now laughing friends deride tears I
cannot hide
So I smile and say "when a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your
eyes"

(smoke gets in your eyes, smoke gets in your
eyes)

Smoke-gets-in-your-EYES



*chaffed* is NOT a guess-my
buddy has the sheet music to prove it!!