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Love Me Tonight
Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Premiere: 1932
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That's the Song of Paree
Isn't It Romantic?
Lover
Mimi
A Woman Needs Something Like That
The Poor Apache
Love Me Tonight
The Son of a Gun Is Nothing But a Tailor
The Man For Me (Dropped before the film was released)
Give Me Just A Moment (Deleted from the screenplay before the film was completed)


Mimi

Maurice Chevalier


VERSE
My left shoe's on the right foot
My right shoe's on my left
Oh! Listen to me, Mimi,
Of reason I'm bereft!
The Buttons of my trousers
Are buttoned to my vest.
Oh! Listen to me, Mimi,
There's passion in my breasts!

REFRAIN
Mimi,
You funny little
good-for-nothing Mimi,
Am I the guy?
Mimi,
You sunny little honey
Of a Mimi,
I'm aiming high.
Mimi,
You've got me
Sad and dreamy.
You could free me
If you'd see me.
Mimi,
You know I'd like to
Have a little
Son of a Mimi
By and By
(Of my own)

ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?

I've never met you, yet never doubt, dear;
I can't forget you, I've thought you out, dear.
I know your profile and I know the way you kiss,
just the things I miss on a night like this.
If dreams are made of imagination
I'm not afraid of my own creation.
With all my heart, my heart is here for you to take.
Why should I quake? I'm not awake.

Isn't it romantic?
Music in the night, a dream that can be heard.
Isn't it romantic?

Moving shadows write the oldest magic word.
I hear the breezes playing in the trees above
while all the world is saying you were meant for love.
Isn't it romantic
merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn't it romantic?
Every note that's sung is like a lover's kiss.
Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
do you mean that I will fall in love per chance?
Isn't it romance?

My face is glowing, I'm energetic.
The art of sewing I found poetic.
My needle punctuates the rhythm of romance.
I don't give a stitch if I don't get rich.
A custom tailor who has no custom
is like a sailor, no one will trust 'em.
But there is magic in the music of my shears.
I shed no tears, lend me your ears.

Isn't it romantic?
Soon I will have found some girl that I adore.
Isn't it romantic?
While I sit around my love can scrub the floor.
She'll kiss me every hour or she'll get the sack
and when I take a shower she can scrub my back.
Isn't it romantic?
On a moonlight night she'll cook me onion soup.
Kiddies are romantic
and if we don't fight we soon will have a troupe.
We'll help the population,
it's a duty that we owe to dear old France.
Isn't it romance?

Love Me Tonight

VERSE (published but not sung in the film)
There's a glistening ring
around the moon-
are you listening?
It is not too soon-
Must we sleep tonight alone?
Let us keep tonight
as our very own.

REFRAIN
Your heart and my heart
we made to meet.
Don't make them wait-
Love me tonight!
Why sould our lips
be afraid to meet?
Love me tonight.
Who knows what tomorrow brings
with the morning light?
Dear, I'm here
with a heart that sings
Love me tonight!


Lover

Performed by Jeanette MacDonal, on horseback.


ORIGINAL LYRIC (as sung in the film)

Lover,
when you find me
will you blind me
with your glow?
make me cast behind me
all my..
WHOA!

Kiss me
He'll be saying
gently swaying
I'll obey
like two children playing
in the..
HEY!

He'll be my lord and my master
I'll be a slave to the last.
he'll make my heart go faster-
NOT TOO FAST!

Lover,
when thou take me
and awake me
I will know,
lover you can make me
love you so.

The Man For Me
Dropped before the film was released,
Intended for Jeanette MacDonal and Maurice Chevalier.

JEANETTE: [Speaks as she writes ]
There is nothing doing at night!
[Stops writing ]
That's silly! What can I write?
[Writes again]
How I wish that you could be here!
[Stops writing]
That's stupid! Can't think!
Oh, dear!
I wish someone could help me!
Writing always makes me nervous!
MAURICE: If Mademoiselle forgives me-
I am at her service!
JEANETTE:
Oh!
MAURICE:
Oh-I'm sorry!Allow me!
JEANETTE:
It's such a stupid letter!
MAURICE:
I'll be indebted if you let me help you
JEANETTE:
Oh, no! I'd be the debtor!
What can I write?
It's so hard for me.
Night after night
Is dull as can be.
l'm writing to a girlfriend,
My little Marie!
MAURICE:
Let me see! Let me see!
Why don't you write this
As I dictate it.
[She writes as he dictates]
I have met the one man, my dear!
JEANETTE:
Who is it?
MAURICE:
[continuing to dictate ]
On a visit here!
I am so excited tonight!
JEANETTE:
Excited?
MAURICE:
And delighted! Dear!
He is so distinguished and sweet,
Very debonair yet discreet!
He's the light of fashion!
JEANETTE:
[continuing to write]
My passion's at fever heat!
MAURICE:
He's so modest all of the while,
JEANETTE:
Oh, very!
MAURICE:
With a merry smile.
He is made of iron. He's tall.
JEANETTE:
Gigantic!
MAURICE:
With romantic style!
He's a Julius Caesar in mind
With Apollo's beauty combined.
So, my little friend, you see
He's the very man for me!
JEANETTE:
I'ii sign my name!
MAURICE:
It' s easy to see
This little note
Is sweet as can be.
It's sure to please your
Girlfriend, your
Little Marie!
Now read it for me,
Read it for me!
JEANETTE:
[reading]
I have met a foolish young man
MAURICE:
Who is it?
JEANETTE:
On a visit here!
I'II get rid of him if I can.
MAURICE:
I'm choking.
JEANETTE:
I'm not joking, dear.
He is undistinguished and plain!
Very unattractive yet vain!
And he needs a shaking!
MAURICE:
I'm taking
The first fast train!
JEANETTE:
All he does is grin like a mule!
MAURICE:
I'm frowning.
JEANETTE:
He's a clowning fool!
He couId never learn how to love!
MAURICE:
I'lI grow to-
JEANETTE:
He should go to school!
He's a simple Simon in mind.
To describe his looks is unkind.
So, my little friend, you see
He is not the man for me.

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