BUTTERFLIES
(Bob Merrill)

as recorded by Patti Page
with Jack Rael & his Orchestra
1953


Darling, why do I get butterflies
Every time I'm kissing you?
When you hold me tight and close your eyes,
Do you get the butterflies too?

Do the stars go whirlin' round and round
When we're all alone, we two?
Does your heart go floating off the ground,
Flying just like the butterflies do?

Butterflies red, butterflies blue,
Oh how they flutter up and butter up my view!
I picture rings, wedding and things,
I hear an organ play and someone say "I do!".

Darling, why do I get butterflies
Every time I'm kissing you?
When you hold me tight and close your eyes,
Do you get the butterflies too?

Butterflies red (butterflies red), butterflies blue (butterflies blue),
Oh how they flutter up and butter up my view!
I picture rings (I picture rings), wedding and things (weddings and things,
I hear an organ play and someone say "I do!".

Darling, why do I get butterflies
Every time I'm kissing you?
When you hold me tight and close your eyes,
Do you get the butterflies too?
Do you get the butterflies too?



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2014)