When The World Was Young - Nat King Cole

作词：Johnny Mercer/M. Phillippe Gerard

作曲：Johnny Mercer/M. Phillippe Gerard

It isn't by chance I happen to be

A boulevardier the toast of paree

For over the noise the talk and the smoke

I'm good for a laugh a drink or a joke

I walk in a room a party of all

Come sit over here somebody will call

A drink for monsieur a drink for us all

But how many times I spark and recall

Are the apple trees

Blossoms in the breeze that we walk among

Lying in the hay games we used to play

While the rounds were sung

Only yesterday when the world was young

Wherever I go they mention my name

And that in itself is some sort of fame

Come by for a drink we're having a game

Wherever I go I'm glad that I came

The talk is quite gay the company's fine

There's laughter and lights

and glamour and wine

And beautiful girls and summer's mine

But often my eyes see a different shine

Are the apple trees sunlit memories

Where the hammock swung

On our backs sweet lie looking at the sky

Till the stars were strung

Only last July when the world was young