PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet
195 - Secret Love
Intro:
Nobody knew, not even you
^ When I first started walking on wings
^ But how long can a man or woman ever hope to hide---
^ Love that locked up in-side?---
^ Every story worth the spinning--
^ Must have a be-ginning---
Chorus:
Once--- I had a secret love------
That lived--- within the heart of me---------
All--- too soon my secret love-------
Be-came-- impatient to be free------.
So---- I told a friendly star-----
The way--- that dreamers often do-------
Just--- how wonderful you are-----
And why--- I’m so in love with you.------
Now--- I shout it from the high----est hills-----
E---ven told the golden da---ffo-dils----
At last my heart’s an open door------
And my secret love’s no secret anymore-----.
Once--- I had a secret love------
That lived--- within the heart of me---------
All--- too soon my secret love-------
Be-came-- impatient to be free------.
Instrumental (16 bars)
Now--- I shout it from the high----est hills-----
E---ven told the golden da---ffo-dils----
At last my heart’s an open door------
And my secret love’s no secret ^ ^ ^ any----more----
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Music by Sammy Fain
From the Warner Bros. Picture Calamity Jane. Day recorded the song on 5 August 1953. On the day of the recording session for "Secret Love", Day had done vocal exercises at her home. Then about noon — the session being scheduled for 1 p.m. — she had set out on her bicycle to the studio. Day recalls, "When I got there I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time ... That was the first and only take we did." ... "When I finished Warner Bros. musical director Ray Heindorf called me into the sound booth grinning from ear to ear and said, 'That's it. You're never going to do it better.'"[4] Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Love_(Doris_Day_song)