The Desert Song - Then You Will Know Lyrics

1926 Broadway
The Desert Song the Operetta - Then You Will Know Lyrics

The song is written by Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II.

MARGOT: (spoken)
Pierre,
Haven’t you ever wanted anything badly?
Oh, why don’t you wake up?
Remember the old saying:
Faint heart ne’er won.

PIERRE: (spoken)
But it isn’t faint heart,
Fair lady—Oh why couldn’t someone find
Something in my kind of a man?

(Begin song)
My passion is not to crash on
And woo a maiden in modern fashion;
I like the ways of the old world—days
Of a dear and controlled world!
I’d not give you mad embraces
To tear your laces and make you frown, dear.
I’d kiss the hem of your gown, dear!
Then you will know I love you.

MARGOT:
It is very clear you’ve never been a girl,
that’s no way to win a girl.

PIERRE:
Isn’t there a dream that I can realize?
One girl I can idolize?

MARGOT:
Put her on a pedestal and she will fall;
She is human after all.

PIERRE:
All my love is gentle;
My appeal is mental!!

MARGOT:
She won’t hear you call.

PIERRE: (repeats)
My passion is not to crash on
And woo a maiden in modern fashion;
I like the ways of the old world—days
Of a dear and controlled world!

MARGOT:
But I’m seeking mad embraces,
And courtly graces
I’ll only flaunt, dear.
(Unison)

PIERRE:
I’ll kiss the hem of your gown dear.

MARGOT:
That…is…why…I…

PIERRE:
Then you will know I love you!

MARGOT:
Don’t love you, dear.

The Desert Song the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
The Riff Song
Then You Will Know
The Desert Song
Let Love Go
One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden
One Alone