Lalita
Based on "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" by Franz Liszt
Written for: Naughty But Nice (1939)
Performer: Jerry Colonna (OUT-TAKE)
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
Music adaptation: Harry Warren
Year: 1938
Original publisher: Remick Music Corp.
Chorus:
Lalita, I'd love to linger longer,
Languidly with you;
Lalita, beneath a banyan branch
Where balmy breezes blew.
Lalita, the only seņorita
Neater and sweeter than Rio Rita.
Lalita, your Yank is yearning for
Those yesteryears with you;
Chiquita, don't dare defer the day you say
You do, do, do.
In Spanish, I long to tell you so,
My sweet Lalita, yo te amo.
