THE MASQUERADE
(Paul Francis Webster / John Jacob Loeb)

Arthur Tracy
Also recorded by : Peter Mintun; Russ Peterson; 
Raymond Scott & His Orch.; Eva Suobodova.


Sometime soon to be, there’s a lover’s moon to be
And a lover’s tune to be born.
No more will I be forlorn
I whisper softly till morn
I want you to kiss, for there must be two to kiss
Moments are so few to kiss now
So ‘neath a sycamore bough,
Meet me there, oh, greet me there somehow.

Twilight soon will fade,
I’ll meet you at the masquerade.
While our hearts are swinging
To violins singing till dawn.

Lady dressed in jade,
Hold me tight at the masquerade.
If the music halts, dear,
Then my heart will waltz,
Dear, right on.

Twelve o’clock is chiming
On the clock above.
Now if you’ll unmask your heart,
I’ll love you, love you.

Midnight shadows fade,
No one else at the masquerade.
Everything is through, dear,
But my love for you, dear, lives on.



(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)