They Met In Rio (A Midnight Serenade)

Written for: That Night In Rio (1941)
Lyric: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1941
Original publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation, rights controlled by Miller Music Corporation

Verse 1:

Listen to a tender story
Of a night of glory
When the moon was low.
Listen to a tender love song
Once upon a midnight
Not so very long ago.

Chorus:

This song of love begins the night they met down in Rio,
In a café by the bay they romanced to a midnight serenade;
She told him to forget the night they met down in Rio,
And there were tears in her eyes as they danced to a midnight serenade.
He whispered, "You must be mine forevermore,"
And then she showed him someone else's picture in the tiny little locket she wore.
And so he rode away but left his heart down in Rio,
All that remains of their love are the strains of a midnight serenade.

Verse 2 (from British sheet music):

Knowing all a heart could capture
In the hour of rapture
There for lovers made;
Growing from a blossom tender
To its fullest splendor
Only just as soon to fade;

[Chorus]