WE'LL MEET AGAIN NEXT SUMMER

 

Now this is very old fashioned, but because it's about a romance between two elderly people, it's what it needs. I have the tune in my head but haven't got round to writing it out. Yo could say it's very Rodgers and Hart, with Rodgers' composing with his Hart hat on.

 

I was a banker in the city

I gave to them far more than they deserved

They sent me off with what they called a handshake

It wasn't worth the many years I'd served

 

I used it all to sail around the globe

My final port of call was Honolulu

And there amongst the music and the strobe

Those eyes that stayed my heart had strayed in you too

 

It chanced that we both lived along the same street

And neither of us claimed to live alone

We promised we would never meet on Main Street

And never get in touch or try to phone

 

To meet again had never been in question

We set aside a time to meet next year

The very same hotel in Honolulu

A time and place that we held very dear

 

We'll meet again next summer

With Autumn not so very far

The moonlight and distant drummer

And soft Hawaiian guitar

 

We'll meet again next summer

And leave winter and spring far behind

We'll pay the wayside strummer

Because next summer is to love assigned

 

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