Lotte Lenya - Sing me not a ballad

JUST, OH JUST MAKE LOVE

Con ocasión del cuadragésimo aniversario del fallecimiento de la cantante austriaca Lotte Lenya, recordamos su grabación de Sing me not a ballad, composición de su marido Kurt Weill con letra de Ira Gershwin para la opereta "La antorcha de Florencia", estrenada en Brodway en 1945. Lenya incluyó la canción en su álbum September song and other American theatre songs of Kurt Weill (1958).

 

Sing me not a ballad  (lyrics)

 

I am not like Circe

Who showed men no mercy

Men are most important in my life

Venus, Cleo, Psyche

Are melodies in my key

They knew how to live the high life

Gallantry I find archaic

Poetry I find prosaic

Give me a man who's strong and silent

Inarticulate but violent

Sing me not a ballad

Send me not a sonnet

I require no ballad

Rhyme and time are wasted on it

Save your books and flowers

They're not necessariеs

Oh, the precious hours

Lost in grim preliminariеs

Deck me not in jewels

Sigh me not your sighs

Duel me no duels

And please don't vocalize

Romance me no romances

Treasure not my glove

Spare me your advances
Just, oh just make love
Spare me your advances
Just, oh just make love

 

Save your books and flowers

They're not necessariеs

Oh, the precious hours

Lost in grim preliminariеs

Deck me not in jewels

Sigh me not your sighs

Duel me no duels

And please don't vocalize

Romance me no romances

Treasure not my glove

Spare me your advances
Just, oh just make love
Spare me your advances
Just, oh just make love