Romberg–NM, Softly as in, lyrics

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Our second song of the day is one that has achieved a great deal of attention over the years. It is one of those great standards that is equally at home in the concert halls as in the jazz nightclubs. It has been sung by tenors of note and by jazz singers of both sexes.

It is called “Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise.”

Here are the lyrics:

Love came to me
Gay and tender
Love came to me
Sweet surrender
Love came to me
In bright romantic splendor
Fickle was she
Faithful never
Fickle was she
And clever
So will it be – forever – forever

Softly, as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a new born day — oh
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
The vow that all betray

For the passions that thrill love
And lift you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let you fall to hell

So ends the story
Softly, as in an evening sunset
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away

It has become “a popular song with jazz musicians, because of the 16 bar C minor vamp section and contrasting bridge in the relative major.”