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April in Paris,
Chestnut in blossom,
Holiday tables under the trees.

April in Paris,
This is a feeling
No one can ever reprise.

I never knew the charm of Spring,
Never met it face to face.

I never knew my heart could sing,
Never missed a warm embrace

‘Till
April in Paris,
Whom can I run to?
What have you done to my heart?

Lyric excerpt: “April in Paris”
words by Yip Harburg, music by Vernon Duke
from Walk a Little Faster (1932)

Yip explained the genesis of this lyric to the audience at the inaugural “Lyrics and Lyricists” concert at New York City’s 92nd Street Y on Dec. 13, 1970 as follows: “I was doing a show called Walk a Little Faster and they had a bright, new, young scenic designer for the show named Boris Aronson, and it was his first show. Boris Aronson … was in love with Paris and designed the most beautiful set. Tender. Sensitive. And the lyric writer was called in to write a song for this set. You think you’ve got troubles. Well, I’d never been to Paris, but I’d passed Cook’s tour [a travel agency] in my day, and I went in and got a couple of brochures. I read them. But, after all, isn’t every place that you’ve never been to, that you live in your imagination, more splendid than the place itself?”

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