Twin Soliloquies (Wonder How It Feels)

 

Lyrics by:  Oscar Hammerstein II

Music by:  Richard Rodgers

With Keely Smith

Arranged by:  Nelson Riddle

Orchestrated by:  Morris Stoloff

From the Album:  The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings

Recorded:  July 24, 1963

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[Keely Smith]

 

[Wonder how I feel living on a hill top,]

[Looking on an ocean, beautiful and still,]

This is what I need, this is what I've longed for,

Someone young and smiling, climbing up my hill.

[We are not alike, probably I'd bore him]

[He's a cautious Frenchman, I'm a little hick]

Younger men than I, officers and doctors,

Probably pursue her, she could have her pick.

[Wonder why I feel jittery and jumpy,]

[I'm like a schoolgirl waiting before a dance]

Can I ask her now, I am like a schoolboy,

What will be her answer, do I have a chance?

(music transition leading to the song Some Enchanted Evening)