Most ev'ryone agrees
 For what else could the ingenue
 and the juvenile reprise

 And so I wrote a random note,
 a harmony or two
 And when it came to add the words
 I tried describing you

 A very precious love
 Is what you are to me
 A stairway to a star
 A night in Shangril? of ecstasy

 Lanterns of gold
 Lanterns of blue
 Twinkle in the shadows
 While I dance with you
 An echo in the wind
 Across the summer lake
 Is sayin' you should know
 that lanterns lose their glow
 and hearts can break

 So hold me close my darling
 then kiss me tenderly
 And give your precious love
 Your very precious love to me