Now Laughing Friends Deride

Otto Harbach
American-born Songwriter's Hall of Fame Member
(18 August, 1873 - 24 January, 1963)
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (1993)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Harbach & Kern)






Smoke Gets in Your Eye
Words: Otto Harbach
Music: Jerome Kern
In the 1933 Broadway musical "Roberta", starring Bob Hope and Faye Templeton

Artist: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (1993)

They asked me how I knew
My true love was true.
I, of course, replied,
"Something here inside
Cannot be denied".

They said, "Someday you'll find
All who love are blind,
When your heart's on fire,
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes".

So I chaffed them
And I gaily laughed
To think they could doubt my love
Yet today
My love has flown away
I am without my love.

Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide.
So I smile and say,
"When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes".

[Orchestral Interlude]

I am without my love.
Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide.
So I smile and say,
"When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes".