THE HARRY LIME THEME - SONG VERSION
Anton Karas (music) & Michael Carr & Jack Golden (lyrics)

(Music featured in the film "The Third Man")


It's the Zither Melody, everywhere you go they play,
Very very soon this fascinating tune, steals your heart away.
Once you've heard this sweet refrain, it will run around your brain
For you can't resist the Zither Melody.

When the lights are soft and low, lovers sit with eyes aglow,
To this theme they dream a dream, all the while they're swaying too and fro.
First it has you feeling sad then dancing merrily
Oh, you will love the Zither Melody.

In a little cafe in Vienna there's a man who plays the zither like you've never heard it played before
He wrote a melody, strange notes and harmony you will adore.
Rhythm that makes you dance with a feeling of real romance
When you hear it played I know that you'll ask for more - maestro play an encore.

You'd never dream that you could be so haunted by a melody,
It's something that's completely new, I warning you, it simply thrills you thro' and thro'.
The Zither Melody is rare, it really seems to fill the air,
It's with you all the time, the theme song of Harry Lime - Yes!

It's the Zither Melody, everywhere you go they play,
Very very soon this fascinating tune, steals your heart away.
Once you've heard this sweet refrain, it will run around your brain
For you can't resist the Zither Melody.

Copyright 1950
Published by Chappell & Co Ltd
50 New Bond Street, London, W1




(Contributed by Paul Daniel - July 2009)