[00:00.00]Once Upon A Time Today (Decca Broadway Reissue Recording) - Dick Haymes/Ethel Merman
[00:08.32]I would like you to listen
[00:11.28]Pay attention and listen
[00:14.09]To a story that's old but never stale
[00:21.30]I would like you to listen
[00:24.91]Pay attention and listen
[00:28.41]To a twentieth century fairy tale
[00:38.59]Once there was a princess
[00:44.37]Once there was a guy
[00:50.16]And they fell in love one wonderful day
[01:00.78]But she was a princess
[01:06.51]He was just a guy
[01:12.28]So there was the royal devil to pay
[01:21.11]They were ordered not to speak to one another
[01:26.67]And they knew the sorrow that would bring
[01:32.01]Still they promised not to speak to one another
[01:37.95]But they didn't promise not to sing
[01:43.87]So beneath her window tenderly he sang
[01:54.75]All the things he promised never to say
[02:04.91]Once upon a time today
[02:15.08]He collected lots of corny little phrases
[02:20.07]Like I love you dear and you're for me
[02:25.02]But he found that when he set them all to music
[02:30.75]They were just as good as poetry
[02:36.57]So beneath her window tenderly he sang
[02:47.57]How about that happy ending in may
[02:57.41]Once upon a time today