You Are Love (from "Show Boat")

Once a wandering ne'er-do-well

Just a vagrant roving fellow

I went my way

Life was just a joke to tell

Like a lonely punchinello

My road was gay

But I knew the joke was aimless

Time went on, I liked the game less

For you see

Somewhere lurked a spark divine

And I kept wondering whether mine

Would come to me

Then my fortune turned and I found you

Here you are with my arms around you

You will never know what you've meant to me

You are the prize that Heaven has sent to me

Here's a bright and beautiful world

All new, wrapped up in you

You are love

Here in my arms

Where you belong

And here you will stay

I'll not let you away

I want day after day

With you

You are spring

Bud of romance unfurled

You taught me to see

One truth forever true

You are love

Wonder of all the world

Where you go with me

Heaven will always be

You are love

Here in my arms

Where you belong

And here you will stay

I'll not let you away

I want day after day

With you

You are spring

Bud of romance unfurled

You taught me to see

One truth forever true

You are love

Wonder of all the world

Where you go with me

Heaven will always be