Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:19 pm
I parted with $4 and bought the sheet music for the song version of Anton Karas' haunting 3rd Man Theme, lyrics by Walter Lord (author of A Night to Remember?). Imagine the music and sing along:
When a zither starts to play,
You'll remember yesterday;
In its haunting strain, Vienna lives again,
Free and bright and gay.
In your mind - a sudden gleam of a half-forgotten dream,
Seems to glimmer when you hear the third man theme.
Once again there comes to mind,
Someone that you left behind.
Love that somehow didn't last,
In that happy city of the past.
Does she still recall the dream, that rapture so supreme.
When first she heard the haunting third man theme?
Carnivals and carousels and ferris wheels and parasols,
The Danube nights, the dancing lights, again will shine.
The zither's sweet refrain keeps swirling in your brain like new May wine.
Strauss waltzes, candle glow, and the laughter of long ago.
Fill the magic chords and make it seem like today.
You never knew that you could be enchanted by a melody.
The years will never drive it out;
You don't know why - It's something you can't live without.
You hear it in the twilight hush
And in the morning traffic rush
A song that's always new
In your heart, a part of you
Oh, When a zither starts to play,
You'll remember yesterday;
In its haunting strain, Vienna lives again,
Free and bright and gay.
In your mind - a sudden gleam of a half-forgotten dream,
Seems to glimmer when you hear the third man theme.
When a zither starts to play,
You'll remember yesterday;
In its haunting strain, Vienna lives again,
Free and bright and gay.
In your mind - a sudden gleam of a half-forgotten dream,
Seems to glimmer when you hear the third man theme.
Once again there comes to mind,
Someone that you left behind.
Love that somehow didn't last,
In that happy city of the past.
Does she still recall the dream, that rapture so supreme.
When first she heard the haunting third man theme?
Carnivals and carousels and ferris wheels and parasols,
The Danube nights, the dancing lights, again will shine.
The zither's sweet refrain keeps swirling in your brain like new May wine.
Strauss waltzes, candle glow, and the laughter of long ago.
Fill the magic chords and make it seem like today.
You never knew that you could be enchanted by a melody.
The years will never drive it out;
You don't know why - It's something you can't live without.
You hear it in the twilight hush
And in the morning traffic rush
A song that's always new
In your heart, a part of you
Oh, When a zither starts to play,
You'll remember yesterday;
In its haunting strain, Vienna lives again,
Free and bright and gay.
In your mind - a sudden gleam of a half-forgotten dream,
Seems to glimmer when you hear the third man theme.
