A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

music and lyric by Irving Berlin

I have an ear for music and I hope I have an eye for a maid;
I link a pretty girlie with each pretty tune that's played.
They go together like sunny weather goes with the month of May;
I've studied girls and music, so I'm qualified to say...

A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day;

Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, she'll start upon a marathon and run around your brain.

You can't escape, she's in your memory by morning, night and noon;

She will leave you and then come back again:

A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune...

Most every year we're haunted by some little popular tune;

Then someone writes another---the old one's forgotten soon.

A pretty maiden with beauty laden is like that kind of a song:

Just when you think you love her, another one comes along...

A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day;

Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, she'll start upon a marathon and run around your brain.

You can't escape, she's in your memory by morning, night and noon;

She will leave you and then come back again:

A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune...