It's Only a Paper Moon
Album: Do You Miss New York / A Seventieth Birthday Celebration
Original Web Site: Lyrics Café
URL: http://www.lyricscafe.com/t/taylor_james/187.htm
Words by (Lyricist): E.Y. (Yip) Harburg
Music by (Composer): Harold Arlen
Additional notes: From the 1933 play "The Great Magoo"
Say it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me
And it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree (oh,yeah)
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me
Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in the penny arcade
It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be (I know)
But it wouldn't be make believe
If you believed in me