歌曲名 A Trip To The Library 歌手名 Jane Krakowski

作词：佚名

作曲：Jerry Bock+Sheldon Harnick

I didn't know what to do or where to go

and somehow my feet started walking down

the street across the bridge past

the Metropol Cinema

and do you know where

No where

Right into the library

The library

Can you imagine

Well how did you like it

Oh you've never seen such a place

So many books So much marvel And so quiet

And suddenly all of my confidence dribbled

away with a pitiful plop

My head was beginning to swim

and my forehead was covered

with cold perspiration

I started to reach for a book and my hand

automatically came to a stop

I don't know how long I stood frozen a victim

of panic and mortification

Oh how I wanted to flee

When a kindly voice a gentle voice whispered

Pardon me

Pardon me

Uh-huh

And there was this dear sweet

clearly-respectable thickly-bespectacled man

Who stood by my side

and quietly said to me Ma'am

Don't mean to intrude

but I was just wondering are

you in need of some help

I said No Yes I am

The next thing I know I'm sipping hot

chocolate and telling my troubles to Paul

Whose tender brown eyes kept sending

compassionate looks

A trip to the library has made a new girl of me

For suddenly I can see the magic of books

I have to admit in the back of my mind

I was praying he wouldn't get fresh

And all of the while I was wondering

why an illiterate girl should attract him

And all of a sudden he said

I couldn't go wrong with The Way of All Flesh

Of course it's a novel but I didn't know or

I certainly wouldn't have smacked him

Well he gave me a smile that I couldn't resist

And I knew at once how much

I liked this optometrist

Optometrist

Optometrist

You know what this dear sweet

slightly-bespectacled gentleman

said to me next

He said he could solve this problem of mine

I said How

He said if I'd like he'd willing read to me

some of his favorite things

I said When He said Now

His novel approach seemed highly suspicious

and possibly dangerous too

I told myself Wait Think Dare

you go up to his flat

What happens if things go wrong

It's obvious he's quite strong

He read to me all night long

Now how about that

It's hard to believe how truly

domestic and happily hopeful I feel

I picture my Paul there reading aloud as I cook

As long as he's there to read

there's quite a good chance indeed

A chance that I'll never need to open a book

Unlike someone else someone I dimly recall

I know he'll only have eyes for me

My optometrist Paul