Broadway Cinderella

Written for: Stars Over Broadway (1935)
Performer: Studio Pianist; Phil Regan, Jane Froman & Studio Chorus (OUT-TAKE)
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: Harms, Inc.

Sheet music version:

Verse:

Picture Forty-Second Street an old Italian garden,
Picture Broadway as a lovers' lane;
Picture Maggie MacIlvaine
As a princess with a train;
Then a Romeo from Brooklyn meets her in the subway,
Takes her to a movie and a dance;
On the dizzy, busy highways, you still find romance;

Chorus:

Bright lights seem so soft and low,
When a Broadway Cinderella meets a Brooklyn Romeo;
In the subway, roses grow,
When a Broadway Cinderella meets a Brooklyn Romeo;
They go strolling till the dawn,
Cinderella on his arm;
He's a butcher boy by day,
Ev'ry night a gay Prince Charming;
Crowds go by, but they don't know
That a Broadway Cinderella met a Brooklyn Romeo.

Movie version:

Verse 1:

(Jane Froman:) Picture Forty-Second Street an old Italian garden,
Picture Broadway as a lovers' lane;
Picture Maggie MacIlvaine
As a princess with a train;
Then a Romeo from Brooklyn meets her in the subway,
Takes her to a movie and a dance;
On the dizzy, busy highways, you still find romance;

Chorus 1:

(Froman:) Bright lights seem so soft and low,
When a Broadway Cinderella meets a Brooklyn Romeo;
In the subway, roses grow,
When a Broadway Cinderella meets a Brooklyn Romeo;
They go strolling till the dawn,
Cinderella on his arm;
He's a butcher boy by day,
Ev'ry night a gay Prince Charming;
Crowds go by, but they don't know
That a Broadway Cinderella met a Brooklyn Romeo.

Chorus 2:

<Phil Regan whistles part of chorus>
(Regan, spoken:) Thanks.
(Regan, sung:) In the subway, roses grow,
When a Broadway Cinderella meets a Brooklyn Romeo;
They go strolling till the dawn,
Cinderella on his arm;
He's a butcher boy by day,
Ev'ry night a gay Prince Charming;
Crowds go by, but they don't know
That a Broadway Cinderella met a Brooklyn Romeo.

<Regan whistles partial chorus>

Segue to "By Yonder Moon":

(Regan, spoken:) Do I love thee?
(Regan, sung:) Lady, by yonder blessed moon,
I swear to love thee always,
To love thee always.
(Froman:) Oh, swear not by the moon,
That most inconstant moon,
Lest thy love should change too soon.
(Regan:) How can I make thee believe me?
(Froman:) Just whisper to me and I'll believe in thee.

Segue back to "Broadway Cinderella":

Verse 2:

(Regan:) Here we are together in an old Italian garden,
Years from now they'll call it Central Park;
In this quiet rendezvous,
Someday there will be a zoo.
Here we are together in the magic land of romance,
Where someday they'll have a peanut stand;
Maybe I am only dreaming, but dreams are so grand;

Chorus 3:

(Froman:) Thou art mine and I am thine,
(Regan:) Ev'ry nook is filled with lovers,
I can see their arms entwine.
(Woman:) Kiss me sweet, there's no one near...
(Man:) Wouldst thou have a hotdog sandwich?
(Girl:) Nay, I'd rather have a beer.
(Woman, spoken:) Say, where didst thou get that stuff?
(Man:) Only why art thou so cold?
(Woman:) Darling, thou art growing older.
<Regan and Froman hum melody>

Partial chorus 4:

(Chorus:) They go strolling till the dawn,
Cinderella on his arm;
He's a butcher boy by day,
Ev'ry night a gay Prince Charming;
(Regan singing, Froman humming:) Crowds go by, but they don't know,
That a Broadway Cinderella
(Froman:) Met a Brooklyn Rome…

Segue to "By Yonder Moon – Hot Version":

(Regan:) I swear by yonder moon, baby,
I'm never, never gonna two-time you.
(Froman:) Don't swear by yonder moon, baby,
'Cause ev'ry thirty days, the moon is new!
(Regan:) The moon is gonna get disgusted
If you don't listen to my tune.
(Froman:) There's not a man that can be trusted,
And that includes old Mister Moon.
(Regan:) I swear by yonder moon, baby,
(Froman:) Until another new moon comes along.

Segue back to "Broadway Cinderella":

Ending:

(Regan:) Here's your slipper, Cinderella,
(Froman:) Fare-thee-well, my Romeo.