why because you can make believe so many wonderful things that never happen in real life and if you like to make believe one thing why can't we make believe we know each other i remember the day very well it was spring and i might have been any american kid coming down the street i had a song into my arms my hopes were high and the world was wonderful why he said that he told you that i was the greatest arranger in american i should give you a few lessons my friend is right there's only one catch i've given up arranging i'm through dressing up silly little tunes for girls shows in barrows i'm going to write some real music for a change eh go ahead go ahead eat em i mean give me some gumption while i'm terribly sorry mr hester i had a big lunch with mr dreyfus just before i left it was roast beef to that well i know as a matter just because you're not hungry you don't have to go now then add your breath the big hits were all english or european and the local talent just didn't seem to have a chance broadway was closed to americans from twenty third street to times square  well the tables it turned american songwriter invades england that's pretty good jerry that's daring very original you're thinking they get anyway it's a chance i'm taking  could work this out right  well i was just passing by on my bike and i got a flat tire and only then you don't work from escaping no i haven't noticed your piano through the window so i thought i'd come in and try a little too high c for a minute i thought you were the piano  that i'm going to try to place in the getty to of course i would if i were you don't you believe i wrote a song kill me when you come home you always break into people's houses to borrow their piano i tell you what i'll do if but i still wrote those songs and i'll still be waiting for the tickets w now let's see if seen with mr abbey and the tower of london and you sing buckingham palace at hampton court maybe there's something i can tell you about this place eva let's drop the history goes for a while do you mind not that it isn't interesting but well there are a few things i'd like to know about you too well all right what would you like to know about me oh just the ordinary things things you like things you don't like where you went to school who was your first blow and what you want out of life nets a tall order where shall i start things you like a lie i guess i like what everyone likes i like bookstand and picnics and dancing and music what about musicians oh any particular type of man i had been at different times when i was sixteen i desperately wanted to marry the star cricket player at rugby and now now mum of now i don't really know that they must have a sense jolly my friend how was your knowledge of english history anguish history did you know that london happens to be the largest city in the world i know that did you know that within the county of law there are fourteen roads bridges across the thames now th carpet what is that if you know when you walk into hampton court you're walking right straight into history oh my dear friend you have so many things to learn about england have you ever heard of a man named charles frohman from  in what happened nothing nothing for a moment just want you to write four songs for his new show if of course you can spare the time well why didn't you tell me about it why didn't i tell you about it come on let's get going there's no time we've got to do that on the ship on the watch on the ship was sailing with charles frohman tomorrow we have to start rehearsal in six weeks in new york over again and you know what happens   he's leaving for england well but he promised that he was going to listen to my show oh boy for his next project say is today  love songs him anthems must be pretty wonderful mr to realize that people you don't even know and never will know i sing your songs and all of them asking for more  makes me feel grateful jerry very humble one of these days you will find out yourself outfields what is it my publishers call me the dean of american music and i think you're going to be in fact if i were you when i asked you to marry me i'd say no just on the grounds that a lady never says yes now see here are you going to ask me to marry my with a little courage believing in my country if a lady wants to be asked she has to be encouraged in my country your country what in your country well there are there are other ways to go about such things in every country well than let me put it this way from the very first moment i saw you when you walked in from the garden i knew that out of all the women in the world i finally found the right one the only or i wanted to tell you then i want to say hello funny thing i don't know your name or anything about you but i'm left with my life you are my first school teacher my first date the first girl i have a kissed more than everything in the world you see well you've married the nicest guy in this world but the craziest all now wait a minute i was keeping them from a as she sensationally jim girardi turn around and let him look at you gerry and look at that hair and those eyes have you ever seen a woman like i felt i had everything in the was happiness success and the wife i had dreamed about i wanted to put it all into music even smile and her eyes and what it meant to be went up christmas came down and i think eric out of look a little more like ought to be able to make a good one i just don't seem to see it in very well the kids all seem so oh i don't know all they're interested in are parties and clothes they seem to think that's all there is to life  get a chance to finish mine i always said that any kid of mine was going to get the right start in life well what's right for one person isn't always right f the trouble with that girl is she's just plain states struck i think you're right ask have you start though how you're going to tell sally it's not going to be easy a lie but you should tell it you are fragile would after all you know or so well it shouldn't be too difficult well it would be a lot but uncle jerry wrote that song for me i know and i know how disappointed you must be but sally disappointments are part of the theater and you've got to be able to take them for the very same thing happened to me in my first show i had to give up my song with a star i think i felt pretty much as you're feeling right now then i think it's a pretty low miserable trick for you to pull on someone else sally listen to me a minute this is your first show you're just starting and they're going to be a good many songs and a good many shows for you you may be difficult for you understand now but one day you'll realize you've got to give and do you like it or not i'll never take a song away from anyone else especially if it's their first real job sally please don't put this on a personal basis i don't want to take the song away from you know why are you doing it mr darling and thinks it's best for the show and what's best for the show is more important what i want or you want or any personal feelings involved don't you see that so yes i see it all right you're trying to take my song away from me you are going to get away with it i'll go jerry wrote that song for me and i'm going to sing it dom i'm sorry jerry well good evening  and then one  might never write again i believe he's beginning to think he can't write music anymore heartbreaking to watch but i have a book here i'd like him to take a look at i've been commissioned to adapt and write lyrics and i think jerry's manager the music i don't think that's hard to believe there's never been a time as long as i've known jerry when you couldn't excite him with a good story never been a time in his life i'd love to i really would but i have so many commitments right now that i don't think i wouldn't be fair to you are anyone concerned suppose i leave the book with you when you glance through it when you have time  you well one more what you're losing by constantly that i'm so excited i don't know what to do river that night with the river wind in my face the taste of it on my lips and i stood there listening sudden excit well that's my story it's too bad do sit down with the carey show we won't be in the way of starting a not not at all well i can't get over this mr on t v we certainly don't grow stages like this on broadway or