Music by: Charles Strouse
Arranged by: Gordon Jenkins
From the Show: All American (1962)
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: April 14, 1965
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Once upon a time a girl with
moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine and said
she loved me so
But that was once upon a time
very long ago
Once upon a hill we sat beneath
a willow tree
Counting all the stars and
waiting for the dawn
But that was once upon a time,
now the tree is gone
How the breeze ruffled through
her hair
How we always laughed as though
tomorrow wasn't there
We were young and didn't have a
care
Where did it go?
Once upon a time the world was
sweeter than we knew
Everything was ours, how happy
we were then
But somehow once upon a time
never comes again
<brief string interlude>
Once upon a time never comes
again