The World Outside (Version 1 with Verse)

Written for: Shangri-La (1956)
Lyric: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1956
Original publisher: Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc.

Verse:

(Mallison:) You do not know, you have not seen,
You cannot guess the things I mean.
(Lo-Tsen:) I studied once what oceans are,
And how men sailed them from afar.
(Mallison:) Your lips have not been met with spray
When west winds blow on Biscay Bay.
(Lo-Tsen:) I am not deaf, I am not blind,
My eyes and ears are on the mind
Of all the beauties far and near,
Is there a bluer blue than here?
(Mallison:) You do not know, you have not seen
The greenness of an English green.
(Lo-Tsen:) I've read so many travel books,
I think I know how England looks.
(Mallison:) You think you know, I know you think,
But are you stirred by blood or ink?

Chorus:

(Mallison:) The world outside wears a smiling face,
The world outside is a smiling place.
The streets are light and the days are long,
The crowds are bright and they sing a happy song.
Oh, the world out there is so fair and wide,
Can you hear the call of the world outside?